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The result was redirect to List of demons in the Ars Goetia. redirecting but history still there so feel free to merge as required Spartaz ^Humbug! 09:59, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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This article is a content fork of The Lesser Key of Solomon and fails to meet the notability criteria; one of 72 types of demon mentioned in the main article. The article is unlikely to ever become more than trivial as no other sources say more about this demon than Ars Goetia, and can be easily merged back to The Lesser Key of Solomon. Wikipedia does not benefit from having an article for every religious or mythical character or neologism from every book ever published. Ash (talk) 21:50, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Religion-related deletion discussions. -- Ash (talk) 21:50, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Paranormal-related deletion discussions. -- Ash (talk) 21:51, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete without Prejudice to Merge Anything notable should go to the main lesser key article. Clear content fork. Simonm223 (talk) 22:47, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge Meaning to, but a procrastinator. Ian.thomson (talk) 00:19, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Let the page stay. Where else can we keep the info about him and his descriptions. Rtkat3 (talk) 8:11, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
Keep or Merge to The Lesser Key of Solomon. It could be that many or all 72 demons, which all appear to have their own articles, should be merged as well. This could be cumbersome in the main Lesser Key article; perhaps a new article or list such as Demons of Ars Goetia could be created for this purpose. Wine Guy Talk 07:03, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Do not merge to The Lesser Key of Solomon per my rationale at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zepar. Briefly: The article The Lesser Key of Solomon contains no suitable location to which the contents of these articles could be merged. If there is consensus is to preserve this content on Wikipedia, then the place for it would be Ars Goetia (currently a redirect) or similar (as suggested by Wine Guy). –Black Falcon ^(talk) 01:21, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to the newly-created List of demons in the Ars Goetia. –Black Falcon ^(talk) 21:32, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Cirt (talk) 10:13, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete no showing of notability. Articles like this must give a lot more context, rather than a vague reference to demonology. Racepacket (talk) 12:04, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I think you are correct that an article such as this must provide some real-world context, but the requirements for a section within a list (List of demons in the Ars Goetia) are surely even lower, are they not? In other words, do you oppose merging as well? Thanks, –Black Falcon ^(talk) 16:59, 15 January 2010 (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.