Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gin pole

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 Jin-pole. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:40, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Gin pole[edit]

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I have proposed the deletion of article Gin pole because it is a copy of the article Jin-pole (except it does not mention the alternate spelling jin-pole). Gin pole is the more common spelling and perhaps it would be better to merge these articles keeping the more common gin pole as the title and making jin-pole a redirect to gin pole. Jim Derby (talk) 01:23, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy revert to redirect: see the article's history: Gin pole was originally a redirect to Jin-pole; 214.4.238.180 (talk · contribs) did not approve of the spelling, so copy-pasted the current revision of Jin-pole to Gin pole, and changed every instance of "jin" to "gin". Revert, and if 214.4... so wishes, they can begin a discussion to make a page-move. הסרפד (call me Hasirpad) 01:44, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:53, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:53, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete one and use common sense to figure out the most common spelling and use that for the title of the surviving article, with the other spelling mentioned. But don't change the spelling in the sources. Kitfoxxe (talk) 07:35, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

close AFD and deal with as merge/move discussion It's obvious that one or the other will be the redirect, and it's preferable to use jin-pole as the source of the move in order to preserve the edit history. With those considerations, this is the wrong venue for further discussion. Mangoe (talk) 16:42, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Change "Gin pole" to a redirect. The two articles are almost identical. There is no content to be merged. "Jin-pole" seems to be the more common spelling, but both are widely used. Axl ¤ [Talk] 15:43, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- To be precise, Gin pole is copy-paste move of jin-pole. הסרפד (call me Hasirpad) 19:09, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - The proposal included the suggestion to merge. Axl ¤ [Talk] 19:40, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    - Reverting gin pole to a redirect seems good to me. Jim Derby (talk) 01:11, 16 January 2014 (UTC) Sorry to have bothered you here if this was not an AFD. However, as long as I am bothering you what is going on with the "what links here" page in Gin pole? There seems to be a problem with many talk pages saying they link but they do not actually link. Jim Derby (talk) 02:57, 18 January 2014 (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.