Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hero the Younger

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The result was redirect to Hero of Byzantium. Mark Arsten (talk) 13:00, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hero the Younger[edit]

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I think this page is a content fork of Hero of Byzantium, and should therefore be merged with the latter. See e.g. fr:Héron de Byzance, which lists "Hero the Younger" as another name of Hero of Byzantium, and ca:Heró el Jove, which redirects. It Is Me Here ^{t / c} 10:52, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment G-Books search result suggests that it could be possibly developed separately. --Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 13:57, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep separately, he has an entry in Britannica and is mentioned in many books as an important medieval surveyor. The article has potential. --Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 14:05, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 14:18, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 14:20, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Merge a mention of the treatise on geodesy (note that the edition cited in the article explicitly calls the author Héron de Byzance) to Hero of Byzantium, as suggested by nom, and Oops, I see that that treatise is already mentioned in the article. Redirect to Hero of Byzantium. I see no evidence that the material in the old sources linked in Vejvančický's Google Books search refers to anyone other than the topic of our Hero of Byzantium article. Deor (talk) 19:15, 21 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Merge -- The article appears to be a duplicate. The merge should be limited to transferring the "literature" section to the target. His inclusion in the 1911 Britannia measn that we sould not be deleting: their notability criteria will have been tighter than WP. Peterkingiron (talk) 11:43, 22 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, the recent edition (PDF avalable here) and the French study cited in the "Édition" and "Bibliographie" sections of the French WP article look to be preferable to the 19th-century stuff the "Literature" section of our article picks up from Britannica 1911. I doubt that merging that section would be helpful. Deor (talk) 13:58, 22 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Hero of Byzantium per Deor. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 18:23, 23 August 2013 (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.