*The arguments were clearly that it should not remain as its own separate article, and the keep comments were almost entirely without grounding in rules towards retention as a separate article.  The first keep comment was almost meaningless and was discarded, the second one argued process, and not the topic, and as the nominator in fact did make an argument for deletion, was mostly considered off base.  That leaves you with a split between merge and delete, and merger was better argued, and more in line with policy, that deletion would have been.