Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eddie Tyler

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The result was redirect‎ to Roy Tyler. Daniel (talk) 21:13, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Eddie Tyler

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It was recently determined that Eddie Tyler never actually existed and was just a misattribution of Roy Tyler's stats to the wrong name. A detailed study is here. Per that article, Seamheads, the authoritative database for Negro League stats, will be corrected "probably within the next month or two" and their stats will be merged. This article could be merged into Roy Tyler simply for redirect purposes if people feel that's better. Dennis C. Abrams (talk) 19:10, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople and Baseball. Dennis C. Abrams (talk) 19:10, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Roy Tyler cause people may still be looking for the other name. Spanneraol (talk) 19:26, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Wait for seamheads to update their database, then merge the two together leaving this page (Eddie) as a redirect. No need really for AfD, but doesn't matter. Rgrd. --Bison X (talk) 03:47, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:45, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge Should perhaps merge both articles together, or move some of this info into the actual person's article as above. The fact that the two people got confused in the historical record for so long also adds to the story, so should be (at least briefly) documented here. Oaktree b (talk) 02:30, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting to see if there is more support for a Merge or Redirect. Though both retain article content in the page history, we close these two outcomes differently.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:27, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Roy Tyler; there isn't a lot of information to merge that hasn't already been added. Hatman31 (talk) 16:12, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Roy Tyler. Carrite (talk) 03:01, 23 January 2024 (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.