Ray Saintonge wrote:
Bryan Derksen wrote:
Just last night I was directed to a situation where an article about an author survived AfD but was redirected to an article about the main book he was notable for, and then the book was speedy-deleted for "lack of notability."
I've restored the book article. Not sure whether to restore the author article as well, but that's something non-admins can do so I leave it in the hands of others.
Perhaps in such cases where an AfD results in a merge, that whole discussion should be considered a part of any comparable discussion for the article to which the merger is made.
That would be nice. There have been other instances in the past where an AfD called for a merge, the merge was done, and then within a short period all trace of the merged material was removed from the destination article. On a few occasions I've wound up restoring the old article since the AfD wasn't being followed anyway, but I suspect the main reason I've got away with it so far is because people just haven't noticed.