[WikiEN-l] Merger of [[WP:SOCK]], [[WP:SPA]], and [[WP:DOP]] into [[WP:U]]

[Phil Sandifer]

OK, not even I know what all of these are, and I know most of the  
3LAs on WP. Can someone disambig?

Best,
Phil Sandifer
sandifer at english.ufl.edu

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boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.

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On Apr 14, 2007, at 2:02 AM, Dycedarg wrote:

> Apparently some people got together...somewhere...and decided that  
> it would
> make sense to merge [[WP:DOP]], [[WP:SPA]], and [[WP:SOCK]] into  
> [[WP:U]].
> No link to said discussion was put anywhere on the talk pages of the
> articles to be involved in the merger, just general comments that  
> it had
> been decided following discussions on WP:LAP, WP:VP, and WP:AN. I  
> couldn't
> find any trace of a discussion on the talk page of WP:LAP  
> concerning the
> merge, and that page has no archives. I'm not about to go trolling  
> through
> the archives of WP:AN and WP:VP, but even if there has been  
> discussion, it
> doesn't do anyone any good if no one knows about it or can find it.  
> The only
> discussion relating to the merge that I found was on the talk page  
> of the
> draft page where the merge was conducted before it was moved to  
> WP:U, and
> that discussion involved no more than 7 editors. I just thought I'd  
> try to
> bring this to people's attention, because I don't feel that this  
> merger
> makes the slightest bit of sense, and the way much of it was done  
> without
> even properly using merge tags (one was never placed on WP:U until  
> I put it
> there, nothing was put on WP:SOCK until I put it there even though the
> material has already been merged, nothing was put on WP:SPA until the
> material was already merged, and WP:DOP was merged after having a  
> merge tag
> on it for five days but without there ever having been a merge tag  
> on WP:U
> or any discussion on its talk page) really gets on my nerves. I  
> don't like
> it when a few people get together somewhere and decide the fate of  
> multiple
> *policies*, not guidelines, without even linking to the discussion or
> mentioning it on the talk pages of the policies in question until  
> major
> changes have already been underway. Not to mention I can't imagine  
> why they
> thought the merger of a guideline ([[WP:DOP]]) and a somewhat  
> controversial
> essay ([[WP:SPA]]) into a policy would be uncontroversial. That's  
> akin to
> raising the status of those pages to policy level, and I've yet to  
> see straw
> polls or any kind of discussion at all indicating consensus.
>
> -- 
>
> Dycedarg
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