The result was keep. Deletion is not an option here, issues can be solved with editorial work. Default keep then. Tone 17:10, 17 December 2011 (UTC) reply
There is the Arab Spring, and then there are other protests happening in different parts of the world in the same year, but for entirely different reasons. Protests against austerity measures in Europe are not seriously described as a resulting effect of the Arab spring. The "occupy" movement is not considered a "subsidiary" of the Arab spring. Protests that happened before the Arab spring are not inspired by the Arab spring. You get the idea. Making a connection across so many countries does not appear to have foundation in good RS, and as such is OR, or at best in places based on occasional very weak journalistic asides. What material here that should go into Arab spring should go there. VsevolodKrolikov ( talk) 17:14, 9 December 2011 (UTC) reply
A smerge is not usually a delete outcome. Compliance with our content licences, the CC-BY-SA and the GFDL, means that we have to preserve attribution, which is normally done by preserving the contribution history under a redirect to the target article. There are other ways to do so but they're more cumbersome (e.g. a history merge). Because the merge and redirect is something any editor can do on the basis of a talk page consensus, it's not necessary to invoke the AfD process to achieve it. AfD is normally for when it's appropriate to delete an article outright, i.e. make it into a redlink and hide the history from non-administrators.
I concur that the subject article is an original synthesis and thus a violation of core policy, so I'll go with smerge per nominator.— S Marshall T/ C 20:21, 9 December 2011 (UTC) reply