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 procedural close There is no impediment to any editor carrying out a merge and redirecting one article to the other. There is no pressing reason to delete the page, and if any information is reused in a merged article the page history must be kept for attribution reasons. SpinningSpark 11:22, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This article is the exact same as Mercy Wanjiku Gakuya. I propose that this article should be deleted and the older article including the politician’s full name should be kept.--Emily19911991 (talk) 08:14, 14 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. Mercy Gakuya was created in December 2019. Mercy Wanjiku Gakuya was created in June 2020. Therefore, this article is older by 6 months and not created after the other article as asserted by the nominator. I'm not sure AFD is the proper forum for this discussion, as it would seem a merge proposal is in order per the process discussed at Wikipedia:Merging. This is a clear case of WP:OVERLAP, and it really should have been brought through the merge proposal process. Should this be a procedural close or should we just deal with the merger here?4meter4 (talk) 19:13, 14 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: AfD is not the proper venue for this. It's actually so uncontroversial you don't even need a venue; you can just merge the info and create the redirect yourself. Curbon7 (talk) 22:30, 14 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge per my statement above; I suppose we'll just do it via this route. Curbon7 (talk) 22:31, 14 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 08:16, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Kenya-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 08:17, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 08:17, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Procedural close per above. Wrong venue. pburka (talk) 12:43, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge. These are small articles, an easy merge, and a redirect should exist between the two anyway.--Chuka Chief_talk 14:30, 17 August 2021 (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.