Talk:Excelsior (wood wool)

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Administrator note This talk page used to be the talk page of Talk:Wood wool, before the two titles were switched, and Excelsior (wood wool) redirected to Wood wool. Please do not make any further edits to this page; take all relevant discussion to the current Talk:Wood wool. Thank you,--Aervanath (talk) 09:29, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

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Content removal by making article a Redirect

Latest comment: 15 years ago6 comments2 people in discussion

The content of the present article, wood wool is being deleted by User:Dicklyon who prefers to create a redirect to Excelsior (wood wool) instead.

The international term is wood wool. This is clearly noted and supported by several references in the present article and the article for Excelsior (wood wool) has been noted for a merge (this edit is being reverted continuously too by the same user).

The actions of User:Dicklyon result in deletion of useful, referenced text.--FocalPoint (talk) 08:31, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

this new content fork was unnecessary. I completed the merge to the other article since this editor would not put it there. Dicklyon (talk) 16:17, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

For the record, Dicklyon has not acted properly by copying content from one article to the other, since that would require:

1. A proposal to merge wood wool with Excelsior (wood wool). This was not my proposal. My proposal was to merge Excelsior (wood wool), an article with a local name, with wood wool, an article with a name used world-wide.

2. Consensus for the merging. There is no consensus, because for consensus to form, time for discussion is necessary. The issue was not properly discussed. Dicklyon has reverted [1] [2] my requests for proposal for merging of that article with the present article wood wool.

Sad behaviour. --FocalPoint (talk) 16:58, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Consensus for merge is not generally needed when there's an obviously inappropriate content fork; in this case, it wasn't even different content, just another article on the same topic as the longstanding one. Dicklyon (talk) 18:10, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Sad. I suppose if I would use your line of arguments, I could do the same with Excelsior (wood wool), which in my opinion is an obviously inappropriate content fork. I will not do it. I will discuss the issue, respecting the fact that someone else believes otherwise. I seriously propose that you refrain from such actions in the future, here or elsewhere in Wikipedia. Discussion and consensus building is better than unilateral actions.--FocalPoint (talk) 09:20, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Please note deletions of content by Dicklyon:

and also multiple removal of a suggestion for merger of the article Excelsior_(wood_wool) to the present article wood wool:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Excelsior_(wood_wool)&diff=264902703&oldid=263760235
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Excelsior_(wood_wool)&diff=266005479&oldid=265974147
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Excelsior_(wood_wool)&diff=next&oldid=266128674 (claiming finishing the merging without an actual merge taking place, just copying part of the content from the article wood wool)

Meanwhile, a discussion is still on in Talk:Excelsior (wood wool)#Proposal for merging.--FocalPoint (talk) 19:38, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

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