Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/An extended essay about Ferrari covering from the birth of Enzo Ferrari to 200

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was ambiguous.

There were technically enough votes calling for "merge" (a variation of "keep") to make this a no-concensus decision. However as near as I can tell, no one has come forward to even begin to merge these articles into someplace useful. I am going to exercise my discretion and call these two as "delete"s. If someone wants to recover the content in order to carry out a merge, please contact me and I will restore it to a temp page in your user space while you work on it. Rossami (talk) 06:02, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Amendment: SFoskett just contacted me to report that he/she is using this content to rewrite the History of Ferrari article (and not writing it from scratch as I had thought from the comments below). In order to preserve GFDL, I am going to restore the earlier version of the article and redirect it. Rossami (talk) 13:06, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

An extended essay about Ferrari covering from the birth of Enzo Ferrari to 200 and An extended essay about Ferrari covering from the birth of Enzo Ferrari to 2005

• Unwikified essay. If not copyrighted, material could be added to several other articles. Rmhermen 05:08, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
  • Merge and Delete. I agree, it's not useful in its current form. --Laura Scudder | Talk 05:09, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
    • By the way, the article's contents have been cut and pasted also to An extended essay about Ferrari covering from the birth of Enzo Ferrari to 2005. If this one goes, I think the other should, too. --Laura Scudder | Talk 05:20, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Merge and Delete both of them. The first is an obvious typo (Enzo Ferrari wasn't alive in 200), but the author seems unaware of the concept of redirects. I thought this was a copyvio but couldn't find the text on Google. — JIP | Talk 05:25, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge somewhere. Gazpacho 05:28, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete both - Wikipedia is not a place for just dumping essays. If it is merged in any significant way, then it obviously can't be deleted due to GFDL requirements. sjorford →•← 09:06, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Ferrari. — Dan | Talk 13:18, 2005 May 18 (UTC)
• Edit and merge - We need an extended History of Ferrari article, and this could serve as the basis. Some could also be merged into Enzo Ferrari. --SFoskett 13:21, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
  • I have begun History of Ferrari and will merge in this content to that article, Enzo Ferrari, and Scuderia Ferrari. When that is done, these ridiculous titles should be deleted. --SFoskett 12:55, May 20, 2005 (UTC)
• Merge and delete is a GFDL violation. Merge and redirect to Ferrari. RickK 22:24, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
  • Technically it is possible to merge and delete. It involves first moving the article to a better title which would be useful as a redirect, and then merging. It is a laborious process though. Sjakkalle 11:06, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
• Unless someone volunteers to sort through that huge unformatted text block to carry out the merge, just delete. Rossami (talk) 02:36, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge, please don't redirect from such lengthy titles. Radiant_* 08:23, May 19, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete both. Not exactly helpful. Linuxbeak | Desk 14:57, May 21, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - Wikipedia doesn't need this. --Imaek 00:07, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Proto 15:50, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Let's not ask the closer of such a debate to try merging this. Sjakkalle 11:59, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

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