Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Proposed mergers/Log/July 2008

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These logs don't do anything that the categories already do, and they contain a large number of completed merges and deleted pages. There is no evidence of updates since August. There is a long list of additional pages to delete for the same reason. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 04:51, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

• Keep: Can you tell me how to use the category system to provide this functionality? It is worth recording that deleted pages were discussed in this process. Also, we don't delete pages just because they're out of date. Graham87 12:28, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
• So we can mark these as historical instead? And what functionality? D O N D E groovily Talk to me 13:06, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
• Completed merges and discussions about deleted pages aren't logged anywhere else, and there's no good reason to delete the logs that have been generated. Marking the pages "historical" would be fine with me. I'm fine for the process of logging these things to be discontinued, but once again, I don't see the point of deleting the logs that we already have.Graham87 04:28, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
• The completed tags are noted on the individual talk pages using the {{tl|merged-to}} and {{tl|merged-from}} tags. And this merely logs that there was a suggestion, it doesn't indicate if there was discussion or what it concluded, nor does it preserve discussions on deleted pages. I don't see a reason to have a single running log of completed merges. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 04:31, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
• Weak Keep: While these are redundant to :Category:All_articles_to_be_merged, the logs would help an editor that wants to work on closing merges chronologically from the oldest to newest requests. Best, Markvs88 (talk) 16:02, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
• They hinder someone trying to do that, as we already have monthly categories. This forces us to look in two places instead of one. And the completed merges, reject ones, and deleted pages contained here make it even worse. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 23:11, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
• Delete, there are monthly sub-categories in :Category:Articles to be merged which are a better place from which to work chronologically. These lists also include rejected merges. – Fayenatic L (talk) 18:39, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
• Comment I added Wikipedia:Proposed mergers/Log to the list, I neglected to include it the first time. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 03:56, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

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