Talk:Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria

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[edit] Fork

This newly-"created" article is a cut-and-paste fork of about 80% of the material in Galicia (Central Europe). The problems with this are:

• The cut-and-paste doesn't acknowledge the source in the edit summary, orphaning the long edit history of the original material. See Wikipedia:Copyrights.
• It is a content fork: an exact duplicate of a very large block of material which is now in two places. If this warrants its own article, then the source should be pared down in summary style. See Wikipedia:Content forking.

 —Michael Z. 2006-11-27 16:17 Z

I restored a redirect back to a source. First, forks are harmful in multiple ways. Second, by rule of thumb many articles on historic territories we now have cover both the territory in general and an the territorial provinces/states. See, eg. Moldavia, which is about both the Moldavian principality and the historic territory, or Bukovina. --Irpen 17:23, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

I strongly disagree. This entity should have an article of its own, and using material from G(CE) to create it is a normal Wiki growth procedure. Both articles are linked - this one notes that the main history article is at G(CE), and that article links to this one - so all is perfectly normal. This is also not a content fork. -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  16:04, 14 July 2007 (UTC)