Talk:History of Manchester United

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This page was split out of Manchester United last year (I think) but someone then wrote another history section in the main page. Both pages are now well over the recommended maximum size for a Wikipedia article, and it's getting to the stage where I suspect people are editing them without reading them all the way through (which would explain why the Glazer takeover is mentioned twice in Manchester United, in roughly the same amount of detail each time.

So, my idea is to create new pages for different eras in United's history, merge the relevant bits of Alex Ferguson, History of Manchester United and the History section of Manchester United into each new page and put summaries of each new page on Manchester United, with comments asking people not to make the summaries too long. This page could then be deleted, or contain links to the new articles. The new articles would have titles like:

• Manchester United pre-1945
• Manchester United 1945-1968
• Manchester United 1968-1986
• Manchester United 1986-present

I think something like this is necessary to keep the pages manageable, but obviously don't want to make such big changes to other people's work without hearing what people think first. Please let me know what you think, at the Manchester United talk page.

Thanks, Cantthinkofagoodname 10:46, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

• I've just finished the majority of the merging of the main part of the Sir Alex Ferguson page (which is not really anything to do specifically with SAF) with this article. I hope it reads ok. I appreciate that after working on something for the length of time that this took, that some NPOV or other errors may have crept in, so please tidy it up if you feel it needs it. I hope the article looks better now, and we can get somewhat closer to the ideas mentioned above, which sound good. --El Pollo Diablo | Talk 22:37, 20 September 2005 (UTC)