Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of Dell

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 merge to Dell. Re-closed after a WP:BADNAC; see Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2021 December 24. Sandstein 09:41, 25 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

History of Dell

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This page has grown increasingly out of date. The majority of the content does not cover beyond 2009 and has been tagged as out of date for almost 4 years. The main Dell article has a more up-to-date and comprehensive history at this point.

After an initial PROD request, WikiProject Computing users noted there remains a small amount of unique content on this page not covered on the Dell page. As such, I nominate that this article have the remaining unique content added to Dell, and then be blanked and redirected. I don't believe this constitutes a full merge, however: it seems to me that the "List of Dell marketing slogans" section could be wholesale copied over and that's about it.Spurious Correlation 19:21, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. Spurious Correlation 19:21, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. Spurious Correlation 19:21, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. Spurious Correlation 19:21, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: I am starting a discussion and not BOLDLY redirecting immediately because of the dePROD. This is a "challeneged" article and seemed to warrant confirmation of consensus, based on this 2018 discussion: Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Archive 71#"AFD is not for redirecting"? Spurious Correlation 19:45, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like a well-justified partial merge to me? Probably ought to have been a merge discussion, really. FWIW, in favour of merging as per given reasons. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 20:36, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Dell, however selectively as desired. With direct sub-articles like this, we ought to ensure that the main article is up to par and that there is demand for more details than can be provided there before considering a spinoff sub-article. I'm unsurprised this is out of date, since it's just too niche a topic to get regular attention. For now, the best course of action is to merge and redirect to focus attention on the main article, and perhaps someday if someone wants to do a more thorough history they could recreate this. A small piece of advice for them that the creator of this article apparently did not heed: maybe perhaps consider possibly wikilinking Dell somewhere in it. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 21:01, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Dell, but I do want to make sure someone has the time to somewhat carefully copy over the relevant information and references. Is someone volunteering to do that? Don't want to lose the info entirely. Caleb Stanford (talk) 21:53, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I suppose since I nominated, I would be remiss not to offer to do it myself. I'm happy to do so, so long as we have a consensus here. Spurious Correlation 02:01, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment DELL is already a long article. Might it not be better to rename this to something like History of Dell 1984-2009? Peterkingiron (talk) 17:50, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
That is way too WP:PRECISE. If that is your concern, the better alternative would be to move the history section out of Dell and into History of Dell wholesale. I will note that the text (not raw markup) size of Dell is currently 53kb, which is just in the range of consideration for splitting according to WP:SIZERULE. A split-merge -- essentially replacing History of Dell with the text of Dell#History isn't a terrible idea, honestly. Spurious Correlation 22:26, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
+1 to no History of Dell 1984-2009 please :) Caleb Stanford (talk) 22:48, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Just replacing History of Dell with the text of Dell#History seems like the best option here. --Adamant1 (talk) 12:47, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds reasonable. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 14:25, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, based on the desire to keep the parent page a reasonable size a Split of Dell#History and merge to History of Dell seems the best option. I'm not sure if I can close this as a speedy keep or not at this point, I'll wait for an admin just in case. Spurious Correlation 14:43, 18 November 2021 (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.