Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Video game article comments subpages

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was Merge and Delete. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:43, 3 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Video game article comments subpages[edit]

Group nomination of WP:VG's deprecated comments subpages per WP:DCS. These pages should no longer be used, however new subpages have been created as recently as 2014. It is hoped that elimination of all current subpages will prevent copying this deprecated subpage type from older articles to newer articles, as well as enabling Category:Video game articles with comments to be used strictly for maintenance rather than to find misposted talkpage comments. What is requested here is a histmerge followed by a deletion. -Thibbs (talk) 13:47, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Additional discussion leading to this nomination can be found at Wikipedia talk:VG#VG comments subpages. -Thibbs (talk) 13:47, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Yes to whatever Thibbs is proposing as necessary and mostly non-controversial cleanup after deprecation. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 16:35, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Thanks for letting me know. -SusanLesch (talk) 21:05, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom as unneeded along with Animation and film projects. JJ98 (Talk) 08:25, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
? Thibbs want to make sure I'm on page with you, is your goal is to:

History merge each of the Talk:XXXX/Comments pages TO Talk:XXXX,
Delete the Talk:XXXX/Comments pages without a redirect

Correct? — xaosflux ^Talk 15:38, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes that's right. My intention has been to follow (with modifications) the model that was used for WikiProject New Jersey's 2010 deletion of their Comments subpages. That effort had been implemented strictly via speedy deletion under the CSD-G6 rationale. For the 24 simplest of WP:VG's comments subpages I did exactly this and they were all speedily deleted after I subst'ed them into talk (with appropriate attribution for unsigned posts). The 14 above-listed items represent Comments subpages that are slightly more complex (back and forth comments, incremental changes, etc.). I believe that a histmerge should be accomplished in order to preserve their edit histories prior to deleting them. Deleting them is important in order to prevent their continued use in the future. -Thibbs (talk) 16:57, 2 November 2014 (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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.