On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 5:06 AM, David Goodmandgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
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The result of trying to delete rather than merge is that people like me , who would be perfectly willing to get rid of the individual articles will instead defend them: I do not care about the separation into articles, but I do about keeping content. I encourage the hot-heads on my side to not try to defend too much, and accept if they can get good merges--perhaps you can do something of the sort also in a reciprocal way.
This is my position also. I am a decided mergist, and I think good merging (coupled with improved writing and sourcing by people willing to do the legwork that those voting delete often aren't) can solve many problems. Of course, the focus then shifts to the lists, or the summary articles, but it is often easier to defend notability of a "topic" if the merge target is carefully thought out.
There should, somewhere, be "best practice" examples of what good merging can produce. Can anyone find them?
Carcharoth