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with an AfD for over a week now, and you have yet to generate a 'delete'. So instead of criticizing me for doing something useful, go and do something yourself: withdraw the nomination, merge and redirect the article to Moto Roma, and then figure out if you want to merge and redirect to
Zongshen--and if that's what you think is right, be bold and just do it. Leave the redirects instead of asking for deletion, since they may well be useful search terms. You could have taken care of all of this in as much time as it took you to compose this AfD, and you can take care of it in the next two minutes--that's all it takes.
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