The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was redirect to List of Governors of Delaware. Cirt (talk) 06:11, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of Governors from Delaware[edit]

List of Governors from Delaware (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

This is a slightly modified version of List of Governors of Delaware. The creator of this article has a history of creating duplicate articles non-standard naming conventions or formating. He has been warned and reverted multiple times. The content of this article is actually quite good, but the changes should have been made to the originl article rather than creating a duplicate. DCmacnut<> 13:30, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is a slight improvement (and return to) the first development of the former way and considerable improvement to the current version. It also keeps a consistent development to other senator & representative improved...much easier for the reader. It can replay to current issue or remain in duplication if the earier is so current stilltim (talk) 13:42, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as nominator I have merged your improvements into the correct article List of Governors of Delaware. That is the appropriate place for those improvements, not a duplicate article.DCmacnut<> 13:58, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Obviously. -Rrius (talk) 14:24, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, possibly a speedy. I guess I was expecting something scholarly, tracing every native of Delaware who ever went on to become a Governor of another state or territory. Since this appears to be the same 73 people mentioned on the list that it duplicated, how do we know that all these guys really were from Delaware? Isn't it possible that the current Governor was actually born in Kenya and then there was a fake birth certificate saying that he's from Delaware? That notwithstanding, one's own special version of an article will always exist in the article history. One shouldn't create one's own copy of a 40 KB article for personal reasons. Mandsford (talk) 14:45, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Kudos Mandsford. Your point hadn't occurred to me, but you are very right. List of Governors from Delaware does suggest an article covering every governor who originated from Delaware, regardless of whether they served Delaware as governor or not. HonouraryMix (talk) 14:51, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to List of Governors of Delaware Wikipedia now has two articles covering the same thing. We can't have that, for obvious reasons. One has to go, and I believe we should keep List of Governors of Delaware because it employs the standard title style. stilltim, no-one is arguing you can't advocate a change to the title of articles. However, the current title style used for list of governor articles has been established by community consensus, and you should therefore seek community consensus before you change the title style. HonouraryMix (talk) 14:48, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete and please someone find a way of sanctioning Stilltim for thinking Wikipedia is his own personal playground. This nonsense has gone on far too long. Unilateral mass moves to nonsensical names, copy-pastes of old article versions to new places just because he's bitter that the old format is no longer accepted, creations and defenses of alphabetical listings (and when it was up for deletion, claimed there were far more important things to worry about, why are we removing this 'useful' article? The existence of categories having been lost on him), and worst of all, repeating the offenses. This nonsense is getting worse, I simply cannot comprehend how Tim thinks these are good ideas. Sigh. I guess a second RFC is in order. --Golbez (talk) 16:28, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Actually, this needs speedying, as it violates the GFDL - it's a copypaste from the article's history. --Golbez (talk) 16:34, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment for more evidence on why this user needs to be sanctions, he created a duplicate Category:Governors from Delaware to go with his duplicate article. I have nominated that new category for deletion.DCmacnut<> 16:33, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • I speedied it before I saw your CfD. --Golbez (talk) 16:34, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete for obvious reasons. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:31, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete and recreate as redirect; there's no reason to have separate articles, but this is a likely redirect. Moreover, Mandsford has a good point — this is quite an encyclopedic topic. Nyttend (talk) 21:13, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.