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The result was merge to Comparison of rugby league and rugby union. History of rugby league was also mentioned as a possible merge target. I'll leave it up to whoever does the merge to figure out which makes more sense (or, maybe even, some things work better in one place and some things in the other).

I'm not convinced leaving a redirect behind would be truly useful as a navigation tool (it seems like an unlikely search term), but it's harmless, and serves the additional purpose of providing a good audit/attribution trail, so go for it. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:54, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relationship between rugby league and rugby union[edit]

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This page seems to be POV and frankly written like a school essay (not suggesting cleanup though). The topic seems to also seems to be covered very well at History_of_rugby_league. I would redirect but the term seems improbable. Savonneux (talk) 06:56, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 07:43, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Rugby union-related deletion discussions. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 07:43, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

delete agree with nom. As rugby league was a game derived from rugby union it's better covered in history of rugby league article. LibStar (talk) 16:36, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:10, 30 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:58, 6 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Merge somewhere. Possibly Comparison of rugby league and rugby union or History of rugby league. Despite the claim that "The topic ... seems to be covered very well at History_of_rugby_league" I did not see any of the Relationship between rugby league and rugby union#21st century information in that article. It would be WP:SYNTH to suggest the four instances are part of a pattern of union trying to stamp on league, but that's not a cause for deleting all the information. jnestorius^(talk) 22:09, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Comparison of rugby league and rugby union or History of rugby league. Some of this information would be useful in either of the two aforementioned articles. Only the adequately referenced text of course. - Yellow Dingo (talk) 01:02, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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