Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Venality of offices

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 redirect‎ to Venal office without prejudice against a selective merge of relevant, sourced content. Owen× ☎ 20:31, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Venality of offices

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The article defines a concept that does not seem to consistently go by this name, the sale of offices is a concept, but this article does little to characterize it (and what it did do is the work of an LLM of dubious accuracy). Allan Nonymous (talk) 20:17, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Allan Nonymous (talk) 20:17, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: History and France. Curbon7 (talk) 21:52, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect. Not a rationale for deletion but I don’t think “venality of offices” is actually an English term, and seems to be a direct translation from French. “Sale of offices” would be fine as a title but as it happens we’ve had the article Venal office since 2006 so I suggest we just redirect to that. Mccapra (talk) 23:13, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict)Redirect to Venal office. I mean, ~~it's not the most plausible redirect but~~It's mentioned at the target so it's more plausible than I thought it should prevent future WP:CFORKS. Also oppose merging due to the WP:LLM concerns, not that there's anything to merge other than the claim that the practice occurred in Early Modern Europe as opposed to just Ancien Régime France. Nickps (talk) 23:16, 2 July 2024 (UTC) edited:23:19, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect per Nickps. hinnk (talk) 05:10, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with venal office. The term "venality of offices" is perfectly fine. The problem with the proposed target is that it is not global, hence merge. Srnec (talk) 20:14, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect per nom. Spiderpig662 (talk) 19:05, 5 July 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.