Talk:Bob Wong (ecologist)

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Text and/or other creative content from this version of Bob Wong (biologist) was merged into Bob Wong (ecologist) with this edit on 01:55, 5 June 2021 (UTC). The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

Duplicate article

This article (Bob Wong (ecologist)) was started as a draft on 2 Feb 2021 and moved to mainspace today 4 June by @Scope creep:. Another article Bob Wong (biologist) was started as a draft on 19 Jan 2021, moved to mainspace on 3 Feb 2021 by @Nomadicghumakkad: as the incorrectly-titled Bob Wong (Biologist), and moved to the right title (lower case "b") on 2 Mar by @Bamyers99:.

As the "(biologist)" article was in mainspace first, that's the one which should continue to exist. If the new one at "(ecologist)" has content which isn't in that one, it should be merged ... yes, I've reverted my initial CSD-A10 and changed it to a merge.

If someone had added the necessary hatnote at Bob Wong when the first disambiguated-title article was moved into mainspace, it might have saved some of this confusion. I've added that hatnote now. Perhaps it needs to be added to the AfC protocol: "if you are moving an article with a disambiguated title into mainspace, please make sure to link it from the base title, by a hatnote or disambiguation page entry as appropriate." PamD 13:22, 4 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@PamD: Well spotted!! I wonder why that happened. Simple mistake possibly. I don't think that other article is up to much. I've taken across the publication section. I guess the other article can go. scope_creep^Talk 13:59, 4 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello ::@PamD: and scope_creep, this was my very early days of work and might have made unintentional mistakes. Sorry for all this trouble. Nomadicghumakkad (talk) 15:49, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge of Bob Wong (biologist) into Bob Wong (ecologist)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was merged as an uncontroversial merge of duplicate articles. Please see also Talk:Bob Wong (biologist) § Proposed merge of Bob Wong (ecologist) into Bob Wong (biologist). Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 02:40, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Per discussion at Talk:Bob Wong (biologist): merge the small amount of extra content from this IP-created article into the article which was created slightly later but has substantially more content. Leave the "(biologist)" title as a redirect, because its history will contain the acknowledgement of the IP and the later editors who worked on the article. PamD 23:03, 4 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Triplication

I've just found Draft:Bob B.M. Wong (started on 2 Feb by an editor with no other edits before or since), while creating redirects. Something curious is going on here - three drafts created by SPAs. I'm not sure that he's really notable, but he's obviously got a lot of off-wiki support. PamD 10:29, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@PamD: Unbelievable, it's turning the place into a circus. He is notable, i.e. more than 7 papers with more than 100 citations. If he wasn't notable, I would try and delete it for wasting everybody's time. I think what has happened, he is paid to get the article created, and there has been a mixup/disagreement with his supplier as the first version was sent back to Afc, not long ago. Possibly another supplier stepped in. I'm surmising it, but these do happen and I've seen this pattern in the past, and it is all too familiar. scope_creep^Talk 15:06, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Redirected the draft to here. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 15:12, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Scope creep: I wondered whether either (a)word had gone round in his lab that he ought to have an article and a few colleagues/students had all independently had a go, or (b)he was part of an LGBT-scientist-awareness campaign, or indeed an Australian-scientist-editathon? I wonder if there was a flurry of other gay or Australian scientist articles started by newbie editors in early February? And whether there are quadruplicate etc drafts yet undiscovered under other variant titles? PamD 15:42, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@PamD: Yip, could be. That could be closer to the truth. Do you know that some editathons that were on during that period? It is not something I have much experience with at all. Nor on the awareness stuff. You could ask the editors, I suppose. It could be a simple mistake. Certainly, it is not beyond the bounds of reality that several of them decided to create it and never communicated it, what with life, holidays, covid getting in the way. I will take a look over the next couple of weeks, see if I can spot anything else. I know there were a lot of doubles showing in the last year, but it seems to have died down a bit. A wee chat is needed. scope_creep^Talk 16:09, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]