Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Electoral history of Walter Scott

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The result was merge to Thomas Walter Scott. (non-admin closure) Natg 19 (talk) 00:46, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Electoral history of Walter Scott

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Unnecessary content fork from Thomas Walter Scott. Standalone "electoral history of [Person]" articles are not routinely created for all politicians as a separate topic from their existing biography -- it's permitted in a few isolated cases for top-level figures (like national heads of state) whose articles are extremely long and need to be chunked out for size management purposes, but the vast majority of politicians just have their electoral history data placed in the biographical article rather than being spun out to a separate page. (Note that other than this, Category:Electoral history of Canadian politicians exclusively contains Prime Ministers of Canada, with no similar article for any other non-PM in all of Canadian history.) But Scott's existing biographical article is not long enough to need the special treatment — and even here, a significant portion of the content is essentially just a repetition of the biographical article rather than new content, so even a fully merged article would still not actually be "all of that plus all of this" in length. There's simply no need for a separate article here: his electoral results should simply be included in the existing article and do not need to be their own separate page. Bearcat (talk) 22:33, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 22:33, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 22:33, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Merge Thomas Walter Scott is certainly not so long that this info wouldn't be able to be presented there. There are also table formats that can include the results of multiple elections to save space, for example Joe_Barton#Electoral_history. Reywas92^Talk 00:50, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I don’t mind keeping both articles as they are. Both may be expanded and we’d end up demerging them again later. However Merge would be fine if the consensus is we shouldn’t leave it as it is.Mccapra (talk) 04:05, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Thomas Walter Scott. Having a content fork here is not justified with the way the articles are set up at the moment. Hog Farm (talk) 04:34, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Merge The more I think about it, the more I think content fork articles of this type are never justified.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:25, 16 January 2020 (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.