Talk:Long track speed skating

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Wiki-Houston, we have a problem: the Long track speed skating article has too big an overlap with the Speed skating one (or is it vice versa). There is no easy optimal editorial strategy here. It would be easy, perhaps, if the Speed skating article were three times as long and informative as its logically smaller subset article Long track speed skating – but it's not. We might go for either (a) a nice enough merger between the two, and then gently pushing the Long track speed skating article into wiki-oblivion; or (b) making the Speed skating article substanitally broader (more on short-track, more on marathon, more on elfstedentochting, more on history, etc.) with more clear pointers to its subset articles. So, what d'you think? Slavatrudu 15:43, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

B. =) Chickenflicker 23:08, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, B. Mainly because it's pretty obvious that "speed skating" has at least a duplicate meaning in English, even though long track perhaps has a slightly longer history and "first rights" to the term, and so the article on speed skating should cover all reasonably notable ways of competing with skates (including roller skates, probably). Sam Vimes | Address me 23:16, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Well: I then suggest the world waits a couple of days, to allow other opinions to emerge, and if nobody protests we for option "B", where I can make a first modest perestroika stab. Essentially this would involve moving some of the nice details from Speed skating to Long track speed skating, and cleaning some of the Speed skating article further. That article is a bit messy in its current version. At any rate editors of either of these two articles should be conscious about what happens with the other article. Slavatrudu 01:01, 16 November 2006 (UTC)