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Merge proposal

I'd suggest that having an individual sub-page for each section of this award is overkill - Aurealis Award for best science fiction novel, Aurealis Award for best anthology, Aurealis Award for best collection and Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story should all be merged to sections of the main award page. There are enough reliable sources spread amongst the five pages (including this one) to create quite a strongly referenced article.--Yeti Hunter (talk) 04:35, 22 June 2010 (UTC) Also include Category:Aurealis Award winners.--Yeti Hunter (talk) 04:37, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Why merge, each article is a strongly referenced article in themselves. Science fiction novel is a featured list, science fiction short story is a step away from being a featured list, and anthology and collect could also be featured lists after a year or two. If you merged every single winner and nominee from every list the Aurealis Awards page would be ridiculus. Also you wouldnt merge Category:Aurealis Award winners into Aurealis Awards they (being novels) would be merged to their respected authors page if they needed to be merged. Salavat (talk) 01:27, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also you should of made this proposal on Talk:Aurealis Award, and not this redirect page. You also should of pointed the merge templates to here if you want to attract any discussion. Salavat (talk) 01:44, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're absolutely right, my mistake. I didn't notice I had linked to the redirect, not the main article. I have fixed this and copied this discussion over there.--Yeti Hunter (talk) 09:51, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Now that you mention it, there probably is a need for individual list pages given the sheer number of nominees now and into the future, but still, keeping each individual page as a standalone "article" results in lots of duplicated information explaining what the Aurealis Awards are, etc. Most of the lead paragraphs are duplicated word for word. Perhaps a good result would be to follow the pattern of Nebula Award, where most of the information is on the main page, and there are a series of sub-pages for the winners and nominees of individual categories. I quite prefer the styling of those pages too - having multiple rows for a single year's entries is a bit cluttered IMO.--Yeti Hunter (talk) 10:10, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The opening lead paragraphs is a necessary condition of the Featured list, and the current style used in the lists was also a requirement of one of the featured list processes, it was done so that the table could be sortable. The Nebula Awards are not up to featured standard and so shouldnt be compared. Salavat (talk) 01:09, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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