Talk:Political positions of Chris Dodd
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I wanted to include information from the deleted article, Political positions of Christopher Dodd in the campaign article, so it was undeleted but I never got around to adding it. I think the information in that article should be merged into this one. I'll try.--STX 19:40, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
- You'll need to ask an admin to copy the deleted text to a user subpage. Also, any help you can provide with the lead here would be welcome. -- Kendrick7talk 19:45, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
I just added some tags to this article and I would like to explain why. First up, I am sorry if I have upset anybody. What happened is that I saw that there is/was another article with an almost identical title which got deleted. That set alarm bells ringing. The style of the page was a big list and I read it initially as being in support of Dodd. I realise now that this is not the intention. I can't see any sense in "Political positions of..." articles about politicians. Surely their political positions should be key points of their main articles. That said, I didn't realise that other presidential candidates had similar articles so I guess the situation is more balanced than I thought, even if it seems silly to me. Maybe I was overzealous so, if the consensus is that my tags are wrong, I won't sulk if they are removed. May I suggest however, that the best thing to do would be to merge all the "political positions of..." articles into a single political positions matrix for the presidential candidates. I think that would be more use although it might also become the mother of all edit wars as the campaign goes on. --DanielRigal (talk) 20:04, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
- The problem is a lot of the candidate articles are too long; I though the campaign article STX made was a little dry as far as presenting what Dodd was running about as opposed to just a where/when overview, so I figured a split would give a main article to be referenced from both the bio and campaign articles. There is a main article for all the Republican candidates like you propose in addition to all their candidate position sub-articles, but not one yet for the Dems. Anyway, STX doesn't particularly care for Dodd; as far as POV I would hope he can keep me honest. It's not as if I'm leaving out some secret plan Dodd has to invade Poland or anything. -- Kendrick7talk 20:14, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Can this be merged back to the Chris Dodd article?
Any objections?Hoponpop69 (talk) 06:24, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
- That would make the biography way too long, in my opinion. -- Kendrick7talk 18:11, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
The article currently is not even over Wikipedia:Article size.Hoponpop69 (talk) 18:37, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
- The combined size of the two is ~64KB, well over the recommended 10-30KB mentioned there. -- Kendrick7talk 18:48, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
- Oh, wait -- I didn't notice you had already combined them. It's still 36KB -- not a lot of room to grow on. You'd just be postponing an inevitable re-split somewhere down the line-- Kendrick7talk 18:53, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Well for what it's worth when I combined them it was 39 kilobytes too long.[1]Hoponpop69 (talk) 18:57, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm wondering how this would postpone an inevitable resplit?Hoponpop69 (talk) 18:57, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
