Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Line of succession to Henry VIII
Merge should not be an option, because it will clutter up the article on Henry VIII.  As the article says its content was overtaken by a 1543 or 1544 Act regulating the succession to the crown, which makes the article pointless speculation.  This resolved various questions: e.g. was Elizabeth illegitimate?  The English crwon had passed through the male line for several hundred years, except that Henry IV, Edward IV and Henry VII succeeded by right of conquest, coup d'etat.  Succession by a woman was thus a novel concept.  The article is .  Counterfactual arguements have theri place in historians' writings, but hardly in WP
— User:Peterkingiron, 22:19, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:OR (Wikipedia:No original research)