Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of Malakand

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 Malakand Agency. Steve Smith (talk) 06:34, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Malakand is a disambiguation page listing several related contemporary and historic administrative units with the name. The article History of Malakand should be turned into a redirect to the dab page, and any content about the history of this or that place should be added to the relevant article. None of them are particularly long (with probably the most relevant one, Malakand Agency, almost a stub), so there's no case for forking out any "History" section along the lines of WP:Summary style. If anybody would like to merge any of the content from here, they're welcome to (this has, in fact, been proposed on the talk page in the past), but I'm not recommending that as the article is effectively unsourced, and has been for a decade. – Uanfala (talk) 16:57, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. – Uanfala (talk) 16:59, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pakistan-related deletion discussions. – Uanfala (talk) 16:59, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Move to History of Swat. That is what this article seems to be about. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 00:47, 28 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep or Merge -- As I read the article Malakand Agency, it concerns a district adjoining Swat, rather than Swat itself, so that I must oppose Kautilya3's suggestion. This might be merged to Malakand Agency. On the other hand this article is expressed to be a main article for Malakand District#history, which is a perfectly acceptable structure within WP. I am not sure how much more content this article had than that section, but we can live in hope that someone will expand it. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:21, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge to Malakand Agency. The nominated article is basically the integral history of the proposed merge topic, which is just a paragraph, and could sorely use the content. BD2412 T 23:21, 4 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge to Malakand Agency per above. The merge article is not suitable for a stand alone article, but the target article will be improved by adding the content.   // Timothy :: talk  03:05, 5 January 2021 (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.