Talk:History of victory disease

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[edit] Merge with Victory Disease

This page does not gain much by being separate from the main article, and it is POV in various places. I suggest, to whomever is predominately working on this article, merging appropriate bits into Victory Disease and prosifying it. Gracenotes ^T § 02:54, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Split off

I split it off as the main article at Victory Disease was getting long, with too many examples.

dino 03:01, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

All right. I realize that your action was a bit more justified than I initially thought. However, I would suggest prosifying this article -- replacing list form with prose -- whenever you have the opportunity. This will make it more of a substantial article. I would also suggest changing the name: by WP naming conventions, it should be "Historical examples of Victory Disease" or, even better "History of Victory Disease." Thanks! Gracenotes ^T § 03:07, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Did prosification myself, accuracy concerns

I recently prosified this article, and the edit summary runs as follows:

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Prosified a list, and where needed, used other WP articles as a source. This is discouraged, so I shall attempt to find external references from the articles from which I borrowed content.

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I found the last section about terrorism and victory disease to be unfactual. That is, it is quite possible for it to be true, but it seems to be a conjecture stated factually: a mother who says "Jedediah steals cookies just because he's hungry" when, in reality, Jedediah did it because the cookies tasted good. That's approximately it.

Gracenotes ^T § 02:33, 3 November 2006 (UTC)