Talk:Second War of Scottish Independence

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[edit] Merge Request

A merge request was put on this shortly after I started work. There is already a seperate entry on the First War of Scottish Independence, and I believe the much neglected Second War needs similar treatment. It receives partial and cursory treatment in the Wars of Scottish Independence page. I could expand this but that would risk making the whole thing excessive in length. Rcpaterson 22:25, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree that this article is valid and there is no need to merge it. It needs to be exanded, which it seems Rcpaterson intends to do. Tyrenius 22:50, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

As the merge tag has been removed via a revert by Netsnipe who put it there in the first place, do I take it that there is a consensus not to merge? At least an informative edit summary would have been helpful. Tyrenius 04:50, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that. What's the official policy on merge tags? Are they to always remain on a work-in-progress article or do I accept the author's promises on good-faith? --  Netsnipe  ^(Talk)  08:14, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

You could merge an article unilaterally if you wanted. However, if other editors are involved it is best to discuss (hence the tag). Through discussion the next step is reached (merge or not merge so remove tag). At the moment it is the case that involved editors have seen fit that this is best as a separate article. If nothing happens to it after a while and all the info is in the main article, you may think it best to merge it after all. No point keeping the merge tag on at the moment, unless you are suggesting it should be merged at the moment. Tyrenius 00:03, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

I see a stub has now been put on this; but what I have written already is not a 'stub'-at least as I understand the term-but an intro. I would have finished the whole article within a day or two, but I have since been diverted on to other projects. I will, however, continue, if that is the consensus.Rcpaterson 23:06, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Wiki doesn't have isolated intros. It only has stubs! I think from above conversation you should go ahead and complete the article. Tyrenius 00:03, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Wow, a massive article and a massive section! Well there is plenty of content but it should probably be combined here, into this article, instead of spread out like it is. However this article is already about 40kb :) --Fxer 17:50, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

The merge tag was put on when this article was just a paragraph. I propose removing the tag, now that this topic has turned into a full article in its own right. Tyrenius 23:37, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

You do note that this merge tag is about adding information from the Wars of Scottish Independence page into this article? --Fxer 23:59, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't. I thought it was the original merge tag reinstated. Tyrenius 12:40, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm really not sure that there is anything to be merged: this article contains much more than the rather limited sub-section in the Wars of Scottish Independence page. I have to say that I have major issues with the way the subject has been approached, which is precisely why I created this page in the first place. I'm sorry to say there is some deep intellectual confusion over this whole topic. We have an article on the First War of Scottish Independence, which seemingly ended for some bizarre and unexplained reason in 1306, and then another page which correctly takes the contest down to 1328, but loses all detail and focus half way through. The one simply does not tie in with the other. My preference would be to scrap both of the latter and create a new page along the lines of this present article: but that would probably mean standing on about a million toes! Rcpaterson 04:45, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm all for bold edits, but I don't know about just scrapping the articles wholesale. I would think these articles should be organized like the rest of wikipedia, we have a First War article, a Second War article and then use the Wars of Scottish Independence article as an overview, with general info about the struggles, as well as paragraph long excerpts and links to the First and Second war articles. I'd agree with Rcpaterson on the points that the articles on the topic definately need some reorganizing and rewriting. --Fxer 16:01, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

A good plan. Tyrenius 18:24, 10 August 2006 (UTC)