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Article Drafts

My plan is to split WP:EL into two parts while doing the minimal amount of changes necessary to make the parts consistent and to disaggregate the two different meanings of "External links." If these changes are accepted, I hope to make further improvements in each half.

• First part: User_talk:David.Kane/External links
• Second part: User:David.Kane/External links creation

Please note I have also moved External links creation to User:David.Kane/External links creation. This suff belongs in the Misplaced Pages: namespace, not (Main). -- RHaworth 07:07, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Subpages

Please note that subpages are obsolete and that you should use a title like "List of presidents of Williams College" insteadl. Gazpacho 21:37, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

D'oh! Thanks. I did not know. David.Kane 21:39, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

WP:3RR

David, you are incorrect. You have made three reverts, I have merely made one. My first series of edits do not count as a revert, the only edit on my part that counts as a revert is my final edit. You are likely to breach WP:3RR. Kindly stop reverting the guideline. Steve block Talk 13:46, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

No. Reverting means "undoing the actions of another editor or other editors in whole or part". You have done that three times today with regard to adding back in the how to link section that I separated out weeks ago. You have done other stuff as well, but putting that section back three times is what I am talking about. David.Kane 13:53, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

• David, I am well versed in the WP:3RR. I am clear in my mind what my actions represent. Note that even by your count I was at two reversions, whilst you sit at three.
• Furthermore, have a look at WP:OWN. You don't get to decide what version of that page is correct, which your actions seem to suggest you are doing. I already initiated talk page discussion after I made my changes. You reverted me twice with no discussion, and seem unable to assume good faith in my edits. As an admin I am walking away from this issue, but I have requested more people look at the issue. I believe you need to act less territorially over pages and not engage in edit wars. The WP:3RR is not a limit nor a game. If you need to revert more than once there is a problem which needs to be discussed rather than reverted. You seem incapable of doing so, so I bid you farewell. Steve block Talk 13:56, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Redirected your userpage here

Hi David - since you had a blank userpage I redirected it to your talk page to save everybody an extra click. Hope you don't mind :-). - Mike 01:01, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Not at all. David.Kane 03:55, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

AfD

If you have an opinion, please contribute! http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Williams_Record_%28second_nomination%29 SERSeanCrane 16:03, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Williams Record

Here's the AfD discussion, where it did appear that the consensus was that the best course of action was to merge and redirect. There are no "hard" rules on such things, but generally it's frowned upon to recreate material merged as decided at AfD. I can understand why people wanted to merge-it appears unlikely that a very comprehensive article could be written on the newspaper from the sources available. Of course, if you can find some additional sourcing, the article may indeed prove viable in the future. Some other things to consider:

• If a page is growing too long, try to consider cutting and condensing before splitting. Generally, when a page starts getting quite long, it's possible to trim some original research, synthesis, and overly detailed sections. In the "School colors and mascot" section, there's quite a bit that looks like speculation ("possible that" and the like without attributing that speculation to someone), some other unsourced claims ("oldest extant observatory", "oldest alumni association", "wealthiest in the United States") that need sourcing or removal, and the "Recent Events" section looks a bit overly detailed.

• If the alumni association and observatory really are the oldest of their kinds in the US, they actually might have enough source material on them to support a comprehensive article. You certainly may wish to look into those.

• We generally discourage the use of "In fiction" or "In popular culture" sections, so that could probably be cut entirely.

Hope some of that helps! I've done some trimming and sourcing work with other articles, so if you'd like a hand with it, please let me know! Seraphimblade 09:16, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

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