- 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 delete. Redirects can be added at editorial discretion; the reason I am not adding one myself is because there are several proposed targets and no clear preference for one. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:46, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Dab page whose only main entries are two redirects. This isn't necessary. Hog Farm (talk) 04:31, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm (talk) 04:31, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment I feel like it would save time to just redirect it as well.★Trekker (talk) 08:35, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect to Aragorn and stop wasting time. Most of these Tolkien legendarium items, even relatively minor ones, need to have a "home", at least a redirect and a decent landing page so readers get an answer to their search. In this case, Aragorn is a leading hero of Lord of the Rings and his immediate relatives can very sensibly redirect to him; they need they briefest of mentions there. As it happens, that article actually begins "Aragorn, son of Arathorn,..." so there isn't a lot of doubt about where to point, really. Rather than just taking everything to AfD, why don't we all think a bit about how the whole legendarium coverage should end up? It's plain that Tolkien, the major books, the major characters, and the major places (The Shire, Rivendell, Mordor, etc) are easily notable by any test (literary or popular), so we should be aiming to redirect all other terms of any significance to those, or to suitable list articles. Redirect decisions can be made by discussion: they do not need to come here. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:12, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete or redirect to Rangers of the North#Chieftains of the Dúnedain, as there are two of them. In the latter case, a redirect hatnote in that section could point to Arrathorne (father of Arragorne). Clarityfiend (talk) 19:42, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect, probably to Aragorn, and don't worry about Arrathorne -- at best it's an implausible typo (forgot an 'r' and the terminal 'e'?) BenKuykendall (talk) 01:44, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Aragorn. This is in part because we need to scrap all articles based primarily on Tolkien's appendices. If the actual book text does not cover a subject, we should not dig into the appendices to create an article. Considering the Radagast article has been debated (well, mainly ignored) on the subject of a redirect since August I do not think discussing these issues at another forum is the answer at all. At AfD we get much more and much faster discussion of the topic than we do in the under notified merge discussion forums. Of course this is porbably in part because Radagast is a super marginal character.John Pack Lambert (talk) 07:49, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]- Delete On further thought I really do not see why we need a reidrect at all. This is an extremely minor character. In the text we learn nothing of him except his name.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:37, 13 January 2020 (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.