Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Copernicus and coin reform

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 merge to Nicolaus Copernicus - CygnetSaIad 01:17, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Found while patrolling candidates for speedy deletion. The given reason was: The given reason is: This page provides little to no information on Copernicus' actual monetary theories. Rather it's another place to fight over his nationality and status of Warmia. Given that most of the relevant info has been incorporated into the main article either delete this or rewrite it from scratch, avoiding the usual nonsense. This is not a valid speedy reason. As this is a procedural nomination, I am neutral. —— Eagle101^{Need help?} 06:14, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge It's already been proposed that this page be merged with Nicolaus Copernicus, and all the information on it can already be found in the Copernicus article. Maybe a redirect? The essay linked to on the page only barely mentions the whole topic, so it seems unlikely that a full article on the topic is warranted. Elrith 06:34, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge. No redirect necessary. It looks like the wrong section was split off the main article; it should have been the dispute over his nationality, not this tiny bit. Clarityfiend 06:38, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge unless it's greatly expanded. (Sounds lik eit was an error anyway.) JJL 12:51, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge. This brief article is interesting, but hardly long enough to be forked from the article in chief. - Smerdis of Tlön 13:59, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge/Delete unless this article can be greatly expanded. The current text is already in Nicolaus Copernicus, and I doubt that this is a topic that people would search for. --EMS | Talk 15:50, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. This article had a story of edit wars long time ago which left it behind in ruins. Yet, the subject is interesting, but will probably never be covered properly in the main biographic article on Copernicus as this one is (and probably always will be) subject to edit warring and vandalism. It makes sense to maintain a few separate articles that focus on his work without frequent edit wars scaring off sensible editors. There was once an article on Copernicus' nationality, where most of the controversy could have been channelled to, but this was deleted, thus the nationality issue resurfaced in the main article. Sadly, I have to point out that the (probably Polish) editor who had tagged the article for speedy deletion also had removed content [1] in the same edit, describing the removed German language text as "the usual nonsense". I am convinced that such POV-pushing that borders to vandalism should not be rewarded by a deletion of the whole article, no matter in what sad state it is currently. -- Matthead ^discuß!     O       03:45, 28 May 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.