Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scrolling (computing)

Scrolling (computing) was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. 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

Scrolling (computing)

This article has now been made redundant, after its contents were merged with Scrolling. See also the discussion on Talk:Scrolling. --Wernher 00:32, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• Keep: as redir (which prevents lks to it from external Web indexes from going dead) &/or merge histories (which would avoid obscuring the principal author, who does not appear at all on the history of Scrolling). Simple deletion of Scrolling (computing) is clearly not permissible under GFDL, since it would destroy the attribution data. --Jerzy(t) 02:49, 2004 Nov 2 (UTC)
  • Cmt: I also question the assumption that there should not be separate articles; the graphical and text concepts are related but may be sufficiently distinct to justify separate articles that lk to each other. I'd have preferred to have had both sent to WP:CU before merging; in any case this needs heavy cleanup before anyone is going to be able to judge (without the effort of visualizing a thorough cleanup strategy!) whether this makes a better article or pair of articles; i have added Scrolling to WP:CU. --Jerzy(t) 02:49, 2004 Nov 2 (UTC)
  • Delete. Simple deletion is indeed permitted, and when delete/merges happen, we can ask an admin to merge the histories. --Improv 06:41, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. The page has only been in existence for a few days, when the page Scroll was split and made into a disambiguation page, to disambiguate it from scroll (parchment). There are a few internal links to that page that will need to be changed, but I doubt there will be many external links created in the space of a few days. The two articles did overlap quite a lot, and unless they are developed far enough, they are more or less the same thing and therefore the same article. Neonumbers 05:46, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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