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The result was merge, nomination withdrawn, no delete votes cast. Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 21:30, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Messianic prophecy[edit]

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this article is basically a duplicate of the article messiah. Bob A 03:55, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment Well, the content itself is not bad, so I could support a merge, but I'd like to see further discussion on it first. FrozenPurpleCube 07:17, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • i was going to do that, but theres nothing to merge; messiah already has just about everything this article says arguably in a more organized way. Bob A 07:26, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • If the content is already substantially similar, then merging the content will be easier. Personally, I would suggest differentiation, as I do see a difference between the messiah and the prophecies about them which this article should be covering. As a subject, I see that as sufficiently distinct subjects that two articles could exist. FrozenPurpleCube 07:49, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • I agree with the comment that "As a subject, I see that as sufficiently distinct subjects that two articles could exist". Mathmo ^Talk 13:28, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge, when duplicate articles exist we merge and redirect (or just redirect if there is nothing to merge). It does never involve deletion of one of the articles, please see: Wikipedia:Merging and moving pages. No need to take stuff like this to AfD, you can do a merge whenever you see fit.--Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 13:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge I agree, it does duplicate information in Messiah and also in the articles Messianic prophecy in Christianity, Islamic eschatology and Jewish Messiah; there's no need for a separate article. Any unique (sourced) information could be merged into those articles where it would be most appropriate.--Domitius 19:00, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• question - could someone tell what information needs merging? i don't see it. Bob A 19:50, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • That is not the point, Bob A. When two articles are duplicate, we merge them. If that means adding info from one article to the other, thats good. If there is no information to add (because it already is all there), we simply make a redirect. We do not delete articles in these cases. This way the author history is preserved. Because the chance exists some people already have used info from article X to include in article Y prior to this and the GFDL requires all author history to be preserved, we merge and don't delete. As I suggested above, please read Wikipedia:Merging and moving pages. --Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 20:17, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • oh, right. i guess i wasn't thinking. in that case, should i merge them now or wait until the afd is over? Bob A 20:47, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• speedy keep and merge - the nomination was made in error. Bob A 20:47, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is it possible to withdraw a nomination? How does one go about doing that? Will it have to be removed from the AFD lists?--Domitius 20:52, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• • As no delete votes have been cast and there is agreement to merge, I'll close it. --Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 21:30, 21 February 2007 (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.