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 Editorial solution required. Consensus, such as it is, is that this can and should be fixed by merging and/or redirecting as appropriate. A deletion discussion is not required for this. Sandstein 09:42, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Lewiston, New York[edit]

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Article is an almost total duplicate of Lewiston (village), New York. I am not sure how this came about and though some editors are aware of this problem that has lasted for a couple of years, no one seems to want to take action and I honestly have no clue what is the best thing to do here. The Legendary Ranger (talk) 23:49, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2018 March 25. —^{cyberbot I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 00:05, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Replace Lewiston, New York with Lewiston (town), New York and fix one link that would become circular. From a cursory perusal, the only differences between Lewiston and Lewiston (village), New York is (1) the latter has a link to a more complete List of people from Lewiston, New York than the people listed in the former, and (2) it doesn't have a ref. label error. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:36, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:59, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:59, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Merge. Umm, Gene93k seems to be slightly mixed up, or is going on about something else, the likely unresolvable issue of overlap between village and town. The current Lewiston, New York article is about the village, seems to duplicate Lewiston (village), New York. However closely-related is the town article, it must be somewhat different. Certainly the two village articles should be merged/redirected to just one. Whenever I come across duplicate articles, I seek to redirect the newer one to the older one (sometimes necessitating an article move or two, to get the right one into intended place). Here they both were created back in 2004 (ancient history!) so I don't know which one's edit history is more important to preserve in the continuing article. Whatever. You can just edit to correct a duplication (though perhaps you have to request a technical move or two at wp:RM); an AFD is not necessary. It's a different issue if someone wants to say the village and town articles should be merged. --Doncram (talk) 04:16, 26 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. It's not the first time I've seen US town/village pairs, which are separate entities, e.g. Athens (village), New York and Athens, New York, Waterloo, New York (town) and Waterloo, New York (village). The town is the primary topic, so it should be moved to simply Lewiston. Clarityfiend (talk) 10:57, 26 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Addendum. The List of people from Lewiston, Maine is also linked from the town article, so it should be deleted from the village. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:04, 26 March 2018 (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.