Talk:History of the Alaska Aces

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I'm in the process of editing this artile for brevity section-by-section. Feel free to pick-up where I left off. When finished, I hope to be able to merge this page back into the main Alaska Aces article. Sagsaw 03:00, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

By all means, continue. I've been working on this a little bit as well, but it still needs to be trimmed by half, and it desperately needs sources. Theoretically, we could {{prod}} this one for lack of sourcing, but I'd rather see us edit it down and then add references. | Mr. Darcy talk 04:18, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Unfortunately, I know nothing about this Alaska Aces, and the original author didn't cite any sources, so I'm probably no help there. Sagsaw 19:33, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merger

I have proposed merger and suggest that it be performed sooner rather than later since this does not currently work as an article on its own. It would then be a section in need of clean-up, which is preferable to an article in need of clean-up. Sourcing seems to be a problem. If the team is notable, surely there is an official book or history that could be referred to?Itsmejudith 17:23, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

I support the merge wholeheartedly, but I would say that we should trim this article a bit more before we do it. As for sources, if anyone has a team media guide, it would probably help, and beyond that we'll probably have to look for newspaper articles. If we can't source it, then perhaps deletion is the best option, rather than a merge. | Mr. Darcy talk 17:34, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
I created the "History of the Alaska Aces" and everything written was all sourced from the archives of Anchorage Daily News. I'm still a Wiki newbie so I don't know much about how to source things... just trying my best. I did not finish the history after it got moved into its own extension from the Alaska Aces Wiki. Bockhorst 20:24, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Bockhorst, if you can find those articles in the archives, I can help you insert the sources. What you need to do is give us the following: Article title, date of publication, writer, source (Anchorage Daily News, it sounds like), and a URL if there is one, and then tell us what parts of this entry come from that article. Would you be able to help with that? | Mr. Darcy talk 05:51, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm the guilty one of separating this article from the Anchorage Aces article! I did so because it was realllllly long at the time. I think this would be awfully long section if we were to merge so I would be tentatively against a merger, however, if the article can be shortened and cleaned up to a reasonable length that it would somewhat qualify as a section, I would support its amalgamation back into the Anchorage Aces article.
Jarfingle 21:05, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trimmed substantially (Jan 3rd 2007)

OK, I just took a scythe to the middle of the article, deleting a lot of content that IMO is too detailed for Wikipedia. I'm not wedded to it, but I thought this was about as barebones as I could justify going. Looking for feedback. If everyone's OK with it, I would call this one ready to merge. | Mr. Darcy talk 01:01, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Looks great. Thanks a lot for doing this. I'm all for a merge now. Jarfingle 02:40, 4 January 2007 (UTC)