Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ankle stirrup

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was merge all to Splint (medicine). NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:06, 13 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ankle stirrup

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This article, as well as the six listed below, all violate WP:NOTDIC as they all have just one sentence defining what they are used for. Since their creation, they have been redirected to Splint (medicine), which lists them all, or proposed for deletion, but their creator keeps restoring them. Unless someone can find substantial history behind each of them or something like that, there is no reason what-so-ever to have articles on every single type of splint that exists. I also noticed that the "See Also" section of Splint (medicine) has articles that can possibly be merged with that article, but will leave that for another discussion.

Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2014 December 6. —cyberbot I ^Notify_Online 01:42, 6 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. Everymorning talk to me 03:29, 6 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Merge them all into Splint, per WP:DICTIONARY. The one sentence in each article seems to be accurate enough. Even if very basic -- all in the form "X is a splint to immobilize Y to prevent injury." Copy that sentence with its source (where the actual information is) into Splint#Commonly used splints, to make it a list of descriptions instead of a list of links, and then convert these articles into redirects. Also someone should contact the author to explain why this is being done and get him to stop the edit warring. – Margin1522 (talk) 19:30, 6 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Merge all of them to Splint (medicine). I had noticed this cluster of articles earlier; thanks to Ranger for definitively dealing with them. If the author keeps recreating them as articles, we might consider protecting the redirects. --MelanieN (talk) 00:36, 13 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Splint (medicine) per MelanieN. Different types of splint would be much better discussed together in one article. --Michig (talk) 08:11, 13 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.