Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Dawn of the Dead


 * 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 and redirect. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 06:38, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Dawn of the Dead
This is just a portion of the dialogue and the layout and cast are not properly formatted. There are also numerous misspellings. I inadvertently created a Dawn of the Dead (2004) page before I knew this one existed, but I think my new page better adheres to Wikiquote format. UDScott 15:49, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * VOTE CLOSED: Result: merge and redirect (3 merge, 1 redirect, no dissent) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 06:38, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect: In these cases, the best thing to do is to merge in those quotes which are on Dawn of the Dead to Dawn of the Dead (2004), adding Dawn of the Dead's history to Dawn of the Dead (2004), and making Dawn of the Dead a redirect page. Best of all, next time you see a similar problem, you do not even need to use VFD &mdash; just be bold and merge. Merging, being an undoable operation, doesn't need a vote unless it is controversial. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 16:14, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge. What happened was that an anonymous user decided he/she didn't like the existing contents of the article and simply replaced them with the raw output of his/her favorite scene. I recommend we revert the anon edits, merge UDScott's material into the original article (which had good material from multiple editors), and leave the (2004) title as a redirect. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:19, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * After reading MZ's suggestion (which conflicted with my edit), I would like to point out that the original has much more history, so it should be the merge target. UDScott's history can go into its talk page, and then we can pick which one we want as primary and which as redirect. (DotD as primary follows don't-dab-unless-necessary policy; DotD as a redirect provides a dab page to (2004) and yet-nonexistent (1978), so we don't annoy either generation's fans unduly.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:29, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: You're right. Thanks for noticing! ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 16:30, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I've just reverted all changes since Kalki's vandalism reversion, and re-added the VFD tag. Now we have something to improve by merging. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:39, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, I'm just going to let you guys decide what to do -- I took material from the old page and added it to mine, so I think what you see on the 'new'page (e.g. Dawn of the Dead (2004)) is now a merged page with the old and the new. But in the meantime, Jeff had already made some changes. Now, I think it's just a matter of figuring out how to resolve this. I'll defer to your judgement. UDScott 16:45, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Now it appears that he's back -- he's changed the cast list so that it doesn't show the all the correct actors' names anymore. UDScott 19:41, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I reverted the anon's second round of changes and warned them to explain their actions or be blocked the next time they try it. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:33, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge as Jeff said. I think a history copied on talk is enough, but if wanted, we can merge histories of pages, sacrifing a bit visibility of history. --Aphaia 09:23, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
 * COMMENT: After the vote closure to merge, I merged Dawn of the Dead (2004) into Dawn of the Dead and turned the former into a redirect to the latter. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:25, 18 August 2005 (UTC)


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