Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Neda Agha-Soltan
Many of you probably know this, but as a couple people have pointed out here (and as I have had a surprisingly difficult time explaining in previous AfDs), "merge and delete" is not an option (because deletion would disrupt the "paper trail" that needs to be kept intact following a merge). If by "merge and delete" someome means, in effect, "merge X into Y, and then clear X of its contents and replace those contents with a an automatic redirect to Y", then one is not indicating  at all, but rather a standard . I worded my nomination so as to suggest why I feel that deletion is preferable to merging. Of course, anyone is welcome to disagree, and to suggest that merging (or something else) is preferable to deletion; but those who are inclined to use the words "merge" and "delete" in the same !vote are advised to avoid making the erroneous implication that  and  can be applied simultaneously to a given article
— User:Cosmic, 10:47, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:DELETION||WP:MERGE||WP:MERGE||WP:DELETE (Wikipedia:Deletion policy)