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:For now, I have temporarily restored the long-standing version of the page (the quasi-disambiguation version), because I intend to wait for a number of days before going ahead with the change to a proper disambig page, as I mentioned. -- ] (]) 05:29, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
:For now, I have temporarily restored the long-standing version of the page (the quasi-disambiguation version), because I intend to wait for a number of days before going ahead with the change to a proper disambig page, as I mentioned. -- ] (]) 05:29, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
::Ok, seeing no comments, I went ahead and made this a proper disambiguation page. As I mentioned, all the content that was here a week ago was copied word for word from the two linked articles (] and ]), except for a very short bit of text that explained the difference between the two types of criticism. Therefore I do not believe that anything was lost by removing that text in order to make the page conform with the rules of disambiguation. -- ] (]) 07:09, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
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For many years, this page was a de facto disambiguation page. It had prominent links to the articles Criticism of communist party rule and Criticisms of Marxism, and a brief three-paragraph explanation of the difference between them. Here is a link to that stable form of this page (notice that this particular linked version remained unchanged from May 2016 to April 2017). Then, a series of edits in April 2017 expanded this page by copying the introductions of the two linked pages. At first I thought this was a good idea, but now I am seeing editors treating this page as a short article in need of expansion, and adding new information directly here instead of adding it to one of the two articles that are linked and summarized here. Thus, we seem to be heading in the direction of a content fork, with the same information listed twice, both here and in one of the two linked articles.
That got me thinking. The scope of this article overlaps completely with Criticism of communist party rule and Criticisms of Marxism. It doesn't make any sense to have an article that exists solely as a summary of two other pages. It should be used for disambiguation instead. Otherwise it will inevitably become a content fork, simply repeating information from those two other articles. Thus, I propose to turn this article into an official disambiguation page, as it should have been for all those years when it served a disambiguation purpose de facto. I want to leave some time for discussion first, however, and then I intend to go ahead and take care of this in about a week.
The only objection I can see to making this article a disambiguation page is the argument that criticisms of communist party rule and criticisms of Marxism are often related and should be on the same page. But that is not an argument for having three articles, that is an argument for having one article, by moving all the content from the two other pages here and then making those pages redirects. I could see the merits of such an argument, except that the two articles in question are already very long. Combining them into one would make the resulting article far too long by Misplaced Pages standards, and it would be recommended that we split it in two. Actually, I assume that's how we got two separate articles in the first place - a split was probably necessary because the combined article was too long.
So, if we're not going to combine them into one, because the result would be too long, then the other logical choice is to leave the two other articles as they are and make this a disambiguation page. -- KS79 (talk) 05:18, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
For now, I have temporarily restored the long-standing version of the page (the quasi-disambiguation version), because I intend to wait for a number of days before going ahead with the change to a proper disambig page, as I mentioned. -- KS79 (talk) 05:29, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
Ok, seeing no comments, I went ahead and made this a proper disambiguation page. As I mentioned, all the content that was here a week ago was copied word for word from the two linked articles (Criticism of communist party rule and Criticisms of Marxism), except for a very short bit of text that explained the difference between the two types of criticism. Therefore I do not believe that anything was lost by removing that text in order to make the page conform with the rules of disambiguation. -- KS79 (talk) 07:09, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
