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 keep. Nomination withdrawn; doing redirect instead. An administrator with 2461 AfD participations, Kudpung, appears to be approving this step; feel free to undo my close if this is considered closing too early. I'm treating the redirect as "keep" (or "speedy keep #1") for WP:CLOSEAFD, which seems to be explicitly okay per WP:NOTBADNAC.(non-admin closure) ~ ToBeFree (talk) 15:57, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Relaying a deletion nomination made on my talk page ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:28, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

a page named Higher Secondary School Certificate is already on Wikipedia. There is no need for this page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kashmiri1950 (talk • contribs) 21:23, 1 June 2018 (UTC) ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:28, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Additional note: The article has originally been created by an unregistered editor in 2004, when unregistered users apparently had been able to create pages. Interesting! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:29, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:54, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bangladesh-related deletion discussions. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:54, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:54, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Nepal-related deletion discussions. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:54, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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I guess the two articles should be merged. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:38, 3 June 2018 (UTC) (striked ~ ToBeFree (talk) 13:02, 4 June 2018 (UTC))[reply]

• Delete Redirect - The only bit in this article that isn't in the other is the short procedure section. Since it's so small I've just copied it across now. A formal merge wouldn't add anything, so delete seems justified. Nosebagbear (talk) 11:03, 4 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose redirect would be the correct action to take Nosebagbear (talk) 08:30, 6 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Okay. Higher Secondary School Certificate contains all the information present in Higher Secondary Examination, and the former article appears to be of higher quality to me, with at least one reference. I was a bit surprised to see the older article "losing" the conflict, but I see that article age is not a good argument for keeping a specific one. Let's delete Higher Secondary Examination, just as suggested by Kashmiri1950, then. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 13:02, 4 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect- No reason why it can't be redirected.Vinegarymass911 (talk) 03:46, 6 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Higher Secondary School Certificate . Any reason why the nominator couldn't have done this in the first place instead of starting an AfD? See the relevant policy. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 15:15, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Kudpung: Sorry, I was not aware of WP:BLANKANDREDIRECT and its mentioning in the deletion policy at WP:ATD-R when I had created this AfD entry. I also was simply not thinking of doing a redirect instead of restoring the page content and starting a deletion discussion when the actual "nominator" blanked the page. A redirect had not been originally suggested here, just merge and speedy deletion. I'll consider redirecting the next time I see a similar case. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 15:38, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That said, and with no opposing statements, I'll retract this nomination and redirect as nicely suggested by Vinegarymass911 instead. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 15:57, 7 June 2018 (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.