User talk:LoneWolfJack

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[edit] Proposed deletion

[edit] Lycanthrope (variations of the term)

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Lycanthrope (variations of the term), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at its talk page. Removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, but the article may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 06:33, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, thank you for beeing so kind not to just revert everything. I have no problems with deleting this article, in fact, I was never happy with this solution myself. However, the idea behind this was to have the variations on a single page instead of two. You may say that you had redirected Lycanthrope to Lycantrophy anyway, but IMHO this is just plain wrong. If those two articles are to be merged, Lycanthropy should redirect to Lycanthrope, as it derives from that term. Probably this is splitting hairs, but maybe we can agree upon merging Lycanthropy into Lycanthrope and remove the variations of the term article. LoneWolfJack 13:40, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Next time, put your message at the bottom of my talk page instead of the top (the bottom is the norm) and I'll see it sooner. I'm sorry if my edit summaries sounded rude, but it was hard to summarize all the reasons why not without being brisk and abrupt, and I felt that you deserved to know all the reasons. If you want so many disambiguation pages and to separate Lycanthrope and Lycanthropy into separate articles, you are more than welcome to bring it up in the correct place, which would most likely be Talk:Lycanthropy, but I doubt that those who watch the Lycanthropy article will see it your way. Your suggestion of reaching a concensus between just the two of us is not the Wikipedia way, because a concensus means more than two people and we obviously see things in opposite ways. Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 02:28, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Like I said, I have no objections if you want the variations of the term article to be deleted; however, by suggesting to bring up the issue of seperating Lycanthrope/Lycanthropy on a talk page, you take it for granted that your action of merging them was right in the first place. A consensus should be reached between the two of us in the first place, then we let the community decide about whether this consensus improves the wiki. I agree that the best idea is to put all that information we have now on a single page, like it is now. However, you made a little form error so to speak, as you should always summarize articles under the noun or the term it derives from. Lycanthropy clearly derives from Lycanthrope, so Lycanthropy should be a redirect to Lycanthrope, not the other way round. The reason I split everything up was because I did not want to offend the one who merged the articles (you) by just reverting your changes. As you might have read by now in the wiki guidelines, reverting changes just because you disagree is not appreciated. LoneWolfJack 12:20, 26 January 2007 (UTC)