Talk:The Eight Doctors

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It has been suggested that this article b merged with ==Doctor Who spin-offs==, please voice views below, thankyou -- Mrmccollough (talk) 17:34, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

• 'Oppose - There are several articles that do not need separate pages, this is not one of them. StuartDD _{contributions} 20:01, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

• 'Oppose - There are separate pages for each range of books, comics, and audioplays, as well as individual pages for most of the individual releases. The proposer doesn't seem to have sought ought all of these pages and made the same proposal there, but presumably he intends all of these articles to be merged, rather than just this one. Also, he hasn't tagged the other article, and has used merge instead of mergefrom and mergeto, so I have to guess that this is the one he intends to remove. (As silly as it would be to have separate articles for every book except the first of the EDAs, it would be even sillier to have the general Doctor Who spinoffs information merged into an article about this one book.) If I'm wrong in these assumptions, I apologize. At any rate, any such merger would require throwing away a huge amount of information. As the parent page is already poorly organized and too long; adding even a brief mention of each individual book would only make the problem worse. Also, given that the proposal isn't formatted properly (notably there's no merge template on the other page--also, instead of a link to the parent article, there's a malformed Wikitag that looks like it was supposed to be a section heading), and looking over the proposer's handful of previous edits ([1]) and proposals ([2]), I'm not sure the proposer completely understands what he's suggesting. If he really does want this merger to be considered, here are some suggestions:

• Add the merge (or, better, mergefrom) template to the target page.
• Replace merge with mergeto here.
• Replace the description here to have a proper link rather than a malformed section heading.
• Explain what should be done with all of the content on the page to be removed. Should this article be converted into a series of sections in the spinoffs article? Rewritten into a single section, paragraph, or list entry? Merged in with existing paragraphs? A concrete proposal is ideal, but not necessary.
• If only this one article is intended to be merged, explain why; is The Eight Doctors less notable than, say, Cold Fusion? Does its article have less information? Alternatively, if you intend to merge all of the individual articles, the proposal's discussion almost certainly belongs on the parent page, and you need to make a list of all of the pages to merge. Also, is it just the individual novels, or do the articles on each range, on OVAs, etc. need to be merged as well?
• Either way, to explain why the separate article[s] should not exist, and how they should be merged, look at the page on merging.

• Fix the formatting; you're more likely to get consent if your discussion has a proper link to the page instead of a malformed attempted section heading. Proper English helps as well. --75.36.141.22 (talk) 18:36, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

This has been around long enough - close with result OPPOSEStuartDD _{contributions} 12:36, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

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