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 Merge subpages tahc ^chat 01:56, 10 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I propose that these lists be be merged.

• Merge List of religious leaders in 2001 into List of 21st-century religious leaders
• Merge List of religious leaders in 2002 into List of 21st-century religious leaders
• Merge List of religious leaders in 2003 into List of 21st-century religious leaders
• Merge List of religious leaders in 2004 into List of 21st-century religious leaders
• Merge List of religious leaders in 2005 into List of 21st-century religious leaders
• Merge List of religious leaders in 2006 into List of 21st-century religious leaders
• Merge List of religious leaders in 2007 into List of 21st-century religious leaders
• Merge List of religious leaders in 2008 into List of 21st-century religious leaders
• Merge List of religious leaders in 2009 into List of 21st-century religious leaders
• Merge List of religious leaders in 2010 into List of 21st-century religious leaders
• Merge List of religious leaders in 2011 into List of 21st-century religious leaders
• Merge List of religious leaders in 2012 into List of 21st-century religious leaders
• Merge List of religious leaders in 2013 into List of 21st-century religious leaders

All of the content in these can be (and already is) contained in the destination with much less total text. In fact the destination is barely any longer than the longest subpage; yet the destination has all the years of the subpage. There are three important reasons to do this.

1. The page can be better maintained with less work. Since religious leaders typlicaly change infrequently (less often than political leaders) it is very difficult to maintain each subpage, and they are not maintained. (At best) when a leader dies the death date is put in a succeeding leader is added. Editors should go back and change the 10 or 20 year pages since the leader came to office from "Pope Joe, Bishop of Klingon (1995–present)" to "1995–2013", but no one ever does this.

2. More content can be maintained with more completeness and with less or the same amount of work. Even in this last 12 year period (it is typically worse for 20th-century religious leaders) the list get longer over time as more religions and sub-groups are added from year to year. Again, no one wants to go back and add leaders for every year since the groups started. Groups are added to the current year and that is it. I personal might have done all the back creation that have ever been done for these 13 pages.

3 A system of religious leaders by century allows finding leaders even when only the century (but not the years) that the leader served. If I want to find the name of Pope John Paul I I can find it much faster on List of 20th-century religious leaders than on List of religious leaders in 1978. tahc ^chat 08:35, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Support Each of the reasons indicated is valid and substantial. Esoglou (talk) 09:05, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Each of the reasons indicated is valid and substantial as already stated. รัก-ไทย (talk) 07:38, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Consolidation is bettter as there isnt radical change year0to-year (unlike state leaders). Last year we had only egypt copts?Lihaas (talk) 02:44, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]