Talk:Spidron (Tomorrow People)

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If there isn't enough material to expand into an article, then combining it with Spidron in the geometry sense is no solution. These two utterly unrelated senses, connected only by a common name and apparently not by any resemblence between their natures, do not belong in one article. --Jerzy·t 21:57, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

BTW, changes of title via cut-and-paste are not permitted. --Jerzy·t 22:02, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Who permits anything around this place? Actually, the only way to fix a page move is to cut and paste since you can't revert the page move. I kind of wish these articles hadn't been split without any discussion but what's done is done. -Husnock 22:25, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Cut & paste moves create an intolerable burden in conforming with the GFDL; you'll probably see (if you hunt hard enuf) that some ed has occasionally persisted in doing them, after being informed; they would reversed quickly by wiser colleagues cooperating in monitoring the article and/or editor involved, and if persistant enough get their accounts blocked or even get banned.

Moves are reversible using the "Move this page" tool, altho this sometimes requires the assistance of an admin to delete a stack of redirects or to merge two sets of versions that have been created in separate "lineages" due to various problems (including cut & paste moves that didn't get reverted quickly enough).

Sorry if the correction seemed inceremonious: chalk it up to bold editing on both our parts, and to my confidence, based on experience, as to what the outcome of a sufficiently wide discussion would have been. I mostly prefer editing to talk, as that gives me the more convincing illusion of making progress. [wink] I'm convinced that keeping people motivated to do what they are interested in is one of WP's hidden strengths, and the logic behind "edit boldly".

As to the core problem you see in my approach, a better solution would be to see if some of your colleagues can build it up, in ways you can't yet imagine (e.g. bcz it hasn't occurred to you to mention the Spidron's hidden fatal weakness, or its back story, or what happened to it at the end of the episode), into a viable single-topic article, and if not, merge it into a wider article (or rename it into a stub, if no other info is yet at hand) like maybe, i guess, 12th-season Tomorrow People characters. BTW, i liked the KKK mention, which is interesting and IMO encyclopedic. And that's the kind of outside-the-box thinking that will pay off here, perhaps in finding how to flesh this out as a free-standing article.

--Jerzy·t 01:04, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)