Talk:Ricky Ponting
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Merger
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I propose to merge Ricky Ponting with the Australian cricket team in India in 2008–09 and Early life of Ricky Ponting into this article.
- Ricky Ponting with the Australian cricket team in India in 2008–09 is designed as a duplicate and focuses on a single player during a tour.
- Early life of Ricky Ponting because someone's early life can be fit into the same page.
Pharaoh496 (talk) 11:43, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
- Keep: his article is already long, having two separate articles for significant parts of his biography makes sense recentlyryan RecentlyRyan 11:43, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
- Tell me, whats the first article even relevant about? Its a duplicate Pharaoh496 (talk) 14:56, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
- Merge Ricky Ponting with the Australian cricket team in India in 2008–09 selectively, as an unnecessary WP:CFORK. Early life of Ricky Ponting seems like an okay WP:SPLIT considering the main article is long. Joseph2302 (talk) 12:14, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
- Most of the 2008–09 is general information on the tour, rather than about Ponting himself. Only content that's about Ponting and relevant should be considered for a merge. Joseph2302 (talk) 15:43, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
- There is already a tour page as well. That page is entirely WP:CFORK. When should this discussion be closed? Pharaoh496 (talk) 08:08, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
- Might I add that there is similar consensus for the merging of Early life of Keith Miller into Keith Miller in a similar situation, with the latter being a FA at the time of the merge? Pharaoh496 (talk) 15:17, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- Most of the 2008–09 is general information on the tour, rather than about Ponting himself. Only content that's about Ponting and relevant should be considered for a merge. Joseph2302 (talk) 15:43, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
- Merge redundant pages. X (talk) 00:42, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.