Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Assocation of College Honor Societies

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 of the debate was REDIRECT to Association of College Honor Societies. -Splash^talk 00:36, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Assocation of College Honor Societies[edit]

It's a mispelling of the actual article, Association of College Honor Societies, which is a better article anyway. The PNM 00:50, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You can do a merge, and leave a redirect, without needing to consult AfD. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 00:55, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I'd redirect, but how often will this typo come up? — Adrian~enwiki (talk) 01:20, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge, no Redirect per above. — RJH 02:09, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and Redirect. Worth merging and redirects are cheap.
Merge with redirect. Typo may not come up often, but redirects are cheap. -- JLaTondre 05:04, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Redirects are cheap, but how much handholding should users really expect? On a long enough timeline, users will just be dashing off "xwqyfdbnbdsfjd" and being redirected automagically to "Rise and Fall of the United States of America", secure in the knowledge that they never have to spell anything right ... yes, that was a tiny bit sarcastic .... — Adrian~enwiki (talk) 05:50, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You are missing three things: 1) There's a difference between common misspellings and infrequent ones. Assocation is listed on Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_misspellings/A and, at 63 hits with the last count, is one of more frequent ones; 2) It's not just about helping people find articles, but to reduce the chances of another duplicate article being created; and 3) You should read Wikipedia talk:Merge and delete to understand the issues with merging & deleting history. While you voted for a delete, the rest of us said merge. There are a couple statements in the Assocation version that are not in the Association version. If they are merged, then the history of who contributed needs to be kept. -- JLaTondre 14:08, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge As above. ProhibitOnions 05:26, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect, redirects are cheap. Stifle 09:41, 1 March 2006 (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.