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Perhaps this article should be split?
This isn't a formal proposal right now – just seeing how others feel. The page size right now is 196,840 bytes – well above the 100KB recommendation in WP:SPLIT. It probably wouldn't be too difficult to split the article – we could have "List of Misplaced Pages controversies 2001–2011" and "List of Misplaced Pages controversies 2012–2022". After 2022 we can make a new article, "List of Misplaced Pages controversies 2023–2043", and so on (although it might be a problem to have articles with names like that – although at least it would save renaming pages and would be a helpful indicator for when information should no longer be added to a certain article). Thoughts? DesertPipeline (talk) 10:31, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
I just noticed the article starts at 2002. I guess it should be "List of Misplaced Pages controversies 2002–2012" (and so on). DesertPipeline (talk) 10:33, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
I'm wondering if this would qualify (and no, this isn't because I wound up quoted in this): Would the fake end to the film edit war and subsequent exposure via sites like The Verge qualify? Rusted AutoParts06:45, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
Oppose merge: I think AfD would be a better venue for this, since the article has an in-depth listing here already—users may want the option to vote to redirect without further content addition instead. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 06:02, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
This article was nominated for deletion on 24 October 2021. The result of the discussion was keep. I'm nominating it for a merge because I think a consensus for that is more likely to happen than a consensus from another AfD is. ––FormalDudetalk06:26, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
Oppose: Merge is a valid result of an AfD discussion—not just keep, delete, and variants thereof. The community chose in that (very recent) discussion to keep, not merge. Thrakkx (talk) 14:45, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
that’s not exactly an accurate summary of the discussion: the closer explicitly said I do encourage the discussion to continue on the talk page as to whether a merge is preferable. Their keep close was essentially a ‘don’t delete’ close. Eddie891Work14:55, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
Support merge, or redirect if there's nothing that can be merged without violating WP:DUE. Per the WP:PAGEDECIDE guideline, meeting GNG is necessary but not always sufficient for a topic to have a standalone article. In this case, it would be better covered as part of the article with a broader scope. It's just too niche. {{u|Sdkb}} 00:36, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
Such a merge is clearly inappropriate as this incident doesn't belong on the page at all. It wasn't a controversy about Misplaced Pages, and not something Misplaced Pages received criticism for. It was simply a long winded discussion that happened on the site. Elli (talk | contribs) 00:04, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
The lead says "controversial events and scandals related to Misplaced Pages and its parent organization". That doesn't exclude conflicts within Misplaced Pages that get media coverage. Criticism is at Criticism of Misplaced Pages, and if this page is limited to things Misplaced Pages has received criticism for, it should be rescoped and retitled accordingly. Besides, it did result in criticism of Misplaced Pages ("world class pedantry", "a swirling maelstrom of anal retention", "make the encyclopedia look rather ridiculous", etc.). — Rhododendrites \\ 00:16, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
@Rhododendrites: The item is simply out of place here. This article doesn't need a retitle or rename to be restricted to the proper scope. This talkpage discussion could be considered a "controversy", should it be listed if it got media coverage? I don't think so. Elli (talk | contribs) 01:07, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
Well, sure, you can add "if it got media coverage" to anything that doesn't get media coverage and it'll sounds silly, but ultimately: why not? How are a bunch of RS writing about an on-wiki controversy in the context of how that controversy exposes the pedantry of Wikipedians, to the embarrassment of the project (reading in from "ridiculous" above), substantially different from absolutely every other thing on the list?
This is, of course, kind of tangential to what's being proposed (whether to merge the other article vs. whether to remove the summary here). If I may reinforce the stereotype, I might propose creating a separate section to figure out a clearer set of inclusion criteria. As I've noted elsewhere, most of the many criticism/controversy/bias articles on Misplaced Pages are poorly scoped and overlap in sometimes clumsy ways. — Rhododendrites \\ 01:25, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
Support. Based on the sourcing, I agree that a paragraph here would be sufficient for the topic. Other redirect targets may be acceptable as well. czar05:55, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
Oppose, of course not and quick close, this was recently Kept at AfD in a full discussion and this seems an end-around an already decided question. Randy Kryn (talk) 06:06, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
Except the question has not been decided already, and certainly not by the AfD discussion, which the closer explicitly encouraged further discussion on merging for. ––FormalDudetalk07:29, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
The close was 'Keep' not 'maybe merge'. The closer mentioned that maybe a merge discussion could take place, but with that 'Keep' decision the mountain should be a very steep one to even get close to merging. Many Misplaced Pages editors wanted and want this kept, the Shadow of Keep is all over it, and to want to merge it to a page where it doesn't even fit (this isn't a controversy about Misplaced Pages, it was an in-house discussion not a controversy - if anything the page is misnamed to indicate in any way that it may even fit into this article, which it doesn't. What was the controversy? Randy Kryn (talk) 00:40, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
Opposethe result of the AfD discussion was pointedly not "Merge", which makes this feel somewhat like WP:FORUMSHOPPING, unless the nominator can articulate a reason that consensus should change. In fact, they have said the opposite above: I'm nominating it for a merge because I think a consensus for that is more likely to happen than a consensus from another AfD is. My assessment is that the article satisfies WP:PAGEDECIDE by providing needed context for the subject which would otherwise not fit into the target article while maintaining readability and cogency of thought. I therefore oppose merging on both procedural grounds and on the merits. AlexEng07:06, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
As has already been pointed out above by Eddie891, the closer explicitly said I do encourage the discussion to continue on the talk page as to whether a merge is preferable. This is the appropriate venue to continue discussion on a merge. ––FormalDudetalk07:24, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
Weak oppose: two Daily Dot articles a month apart and an Independent story are in the article. There's also Slate. A search turns up passing mentions in Slate and Gizmodo but these won't contribute to notability. Notability is borderline, but the AfD seems to indicate it, and in that case a merge would be possible but likely undesirable as a single paragraph to the issue would leave interesting things to say unsaid, and more than a paragraph may fall afoul of due weight. (A radical suggestion: get this merge discussion to 40,000 words in length and then contact the press.) — Bilorv (talk) 19:21, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
Oppose: there was already an AfD where anyone who wanted it merged had the opportunity to make a case for it, which they did, and it did not close as "merge". I find the arguments made at the time in favor of keeping it to be more persuasive than the arguments made in favor of merging; it's not like this is a shitty microstub article. I think that if we want to relitigate it, someone should ping all of the AfD participants. jp×g22:41, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
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