Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Badges of the Civil Air Patrol
u|RoySmith}} thanks for adding the optional merge. Due to the sometimes sort of unfair considerations of closings a delete, keep, and merge would likely have resulted in a no consensus. This is not an actual fault of a closer but the way policies and guidelines are current interpreted. The reality that anything other than a "keep", especially considering |ATD, still means an article is not presumed to warrant stand alone status specifically if there are notability issues. To me this would clearly indicate a merge and delete would qualify for an ATD of merge, but that is not usually how it is perceived. Maybe we can get more closing AFDs to consider this? There are some that consider merging not appropriate for AFD. To me that does not follow the deletion policy: {{tq|Common outcomes are that the article is Wikipedia:ATD|kept, Wikipedia:ATD-M|'''merged''', Wikipedia:ATD-R|redirected, Wikipedia:ATD-I|incubated, Wikipedia:Moving a page|renamed/moved to another title, Wikipedia:Userfication|userfied to a user subpage, or deleted per the Wikipedia:Deletion policy|deletion policy}}. Maybe merge as an understood alternative would be something to consider at the policy page
— User:Otr500, 15:02, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:ATD (Wikipedia:Deletion policy)