Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Night watchman state

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 Speedy close And again, this is not Articles for Merging. Can no one figure that out? NAC. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 21:18, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Night watchman state[edit]

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This appears to be a clone of Minarchism A short section there would suffice rather than an entire article mark nutley (talk) 19:04, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Don't bring things to AFD where an administrator hitting the delete button is not the outcome that you want. The article merger process for duplicate articles does not involve deletion and AFD at any point. And even a cursory amount of research turns up this concept discussed under this very name by Eduard Meyer, Samuel Edward Finer, and Wilhelm von Humboldt. Clearly either merger or an outright standalone article is the right answer here, and AFD and deletion are not. Uncle G (talk) 19:43, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Early close for the AfD on procedure. Merger request seems to be the actual request made here. BigK HeX (talk) 20:20, 28 September 2010 (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.