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. MBisanz ^talk 23:48, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Trace constituents

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((db-nocontext)) declined. Extremely short article that states nothing but a list of gases produced in small quantities by landfills. Delete. Blanchardb -^{Me•MyEars•MyMouth}- timed 20:12, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This appears to be part of landfill gas. Rename to Trace constituents of landfill gas (without redirect) and merge the names of the gases into the text of the main article (with redirect). This way information is preserved without causing fragmentation or unneeded redirects. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:36, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:24, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

~~Strong~~Delete - At best it's a merge into the Landfill gas article. Even if it's merged, the underlying page needs to delete because lots of things have trace constituents, and there's little reason it should redirect to landfill gas, over something else (say nuclear test constituents, or whatever). Shadowjams (talk) 02:11, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's why I'm suggesting a rename before merging. You can't merge text and delete the edit history that belongs with that text because it would kill the "paper" trail of attribution. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:27, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I see. That's a good point. I would normally agree, but here the only content here is a very short list of chemicals; That doesn't require a true merge, and I think there's a downside to making it hard for another user to start a trace constituents page. What if it redirected to a disambiguation? Shadowjams (talk) 17:53, 21 April 2009 (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.