Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Manzano Group

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 no consensus. Sandstein 06:13, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Group has long been abandonded; no single article appropriate to redirect to. Kent G. Budge (talk) 01:45, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 01:57, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 01:57, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New Mexico-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 01:57, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Question This article is about a geologic formation. What "group has long been abandoned"? Have topics been confused? LadyofShalott 02:17, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Manzano Group has long been abandoned as a stratigraphic unit; that is, as the name of a group of geologic formations. One of the formations within the original, very old, definition has itself been promoted to group rank (Yeso Group). --Kent G. Budge (talk) 02:45, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the clarification. LadyofShalott 02:52, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. The Manzano Group is an abandoned stratigraphic group name.[1].The strata originally assigned to it have been reassigned to a number of geological formations and a currently accepted stratigraphic group, the Yeso Group. As an abandoned group name, it lacks notability. Such historical significance as it has is addressed in the "history of investigations" sections of some of the articles for the modern accepted formations and the Yeso Group. Since its beds have been assigned to so many currently accepted formations, there is no one article we can sensibly redirect to, or that would be preferable to deletion (and I would already have done it, frankly.) --Kent G. Budge (talk) 15:12, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete for above reasons. Balle010 (talk) 18:01, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep It may be outdated now, but at one time it was extensively covered. Here's 100+ pages on geology and paleontology of the Manzano Group. [2] I understand it can't be easily redirected, so why not simply re-write to explain that it is an abandoned stratigraphic group. Glendoremus (talk) 19:11, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep although the Manzano Group has "no current usage" according to USGS' Geolex, the article should kept because of its historical usage in paleontology. As suggested above, the article can be rewritten to explain it historical significance, current status, and modern equivalents. It is impossible for a simple redirect to handle this unit.Paul H. (talk) 03:02, 28 August 2020 (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.