Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Council of States

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 keep. The page was nominated when it was a redirect (and should thus have gone to WP:RFD), but is now a disambiguation page, so the deletion rationale is moot. Sandstein 06:27, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Council of States[edit]

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Delete as per WP:R#DELETE point 2. Many countries may have councils of states e.g. India, Sudan. Delete redirect to Swiss Council of States and create disambiguation page. --Geeteshgadkari (talk) 18:49, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 13:04, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You don't need an AFD to do that, just edit the page. Polarpanda (talk) 13:25, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. We don't need an AFD to merge/redirect/disambiguate. But since it's here, ugh. We have State Council and Council of State and this article, Council of States, all of which sound like they refer to the same thing but in fact have wildly different meanings. We should reconcile this, somehow. This article, the plural, should (in theory) redirect to the singular form, but the two concepts are different. Smerging them would just create confusion, as would shoehorning the content from one into the other. Not sure how best to proceed, here; might be worthwhile to withdraw the nom in favor of a longer, more in-depth move/merge/redirect discussion on one of the talk pages. UltraExactZZ ^Said~ Did 15:46, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment on the comment. The plural of Council of State is Councils of State, not the present title. The article Conseil d'Etat (Switzerland) alerts readers to the difference. Sussexonian (talk) 22:34, 26 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.