Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Weapon possession

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 redirect to Criminal possession of a weapon. Some content can be merged from history if desired. Sandstein 12:32, 16 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Weapon possession[edit]

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We discovered this article in RfD when dealing with a group of strange redirects to it. This article is poorly put together and the topic is super broad. Weapons can range from brass knuckles to nuclear warheads. I can't see how this can be made into an article that matches the title. Legacypac (talk) 00:32, 8 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Firearms-related deletion discussions. —Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 03:10, 8 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DELETE...As I stated in RfD...The article is simply not notable. In fact, it is irrelevant and pointless. What's next? Articles on car possession, house possession, boat possession, pet possession? Save the hard-drive...delete.--RAF910 (talk) 05:10, 8 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

C'mon, Legacypac, do say that part of the reason for this AfD lies in the fact that it was de facto created by Neelix [1], who probably also created "appropriate" redirects. A bit of history: a page under this name has existed since 2005 or so, and was eventually moved to Criminal possession of a weapon (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) by a RM. I do agree that it currently presents more or less a WP:DICDEF, and largely overlaps with Right to keep and bear arms, Gun control and Criminal possession of a weapon. However, we probably need an overview article for the broad weapon control topic (redlink!), for which Right to keep and bear arms seems the current best candidate, so I'd vote for a merge there (without prejudice on the best title). No such user (talk) 12:03, 8 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Good pickup - I had not looked at who created this junk. I was dealing with the useless redirects and this came up as something to send to AfD because it made no sense regardless of how one might try to improve it. Legacypac (talk) 12:10, 8 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:58, 8 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete or change back to redirect - I wrote most of the text that was under this and now is under Criminal possession of a weapon. I felt the move to that new name was justified and did not notice when someone altered this redirect. This article is redundant with the aforementioned article, but far less informative and seems to have little merit.Legitimus (talk) 20:12, 8 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Merge anything salvageable with Criminal possession of a weapon and delete the rest. As it exists now, this is nothing more than a WP:CONTENTFORK. -- Notecardforfree (talk) 21:07, 8 December 2015 (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.