Talk:Qanat
Latest comment: 1 year ago by Fork99 in topic Unnecessary content duplication
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Unnecessary content duplication
editThe section on Iran is almost a 100% verbatim copy of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_water_sources_of_Persian_antiquity, an article the section actually provides a link to.
What is the purpose of this redundancy?
The article is already a wall-of-text; maybe mark the article for clean-up. 99.225.227.193 (talk) 21:11, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
- Sometimes, articles on Wikipedia overlap, that's not different here.---Wikaviani (talk) (contribs) 21:16, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
- Paragraphs worth ~2300 words overlap. I would say that is different from any article I've encountered on Wikipedia so far.
- In my opinion and experience, keeping so much duplicate content synchronized manually over multiple articles will lead to major problems down the road. Signs of this are already showing when affected paragraphs are carefully compared (e.g.: punctuation, grammar, word ordering).
- This is the reason why I tried to bring the issue to the attention of those who maintain the article.
- Anyhow, if the redundancy is deemed acceptable, then I can live with it too (as long as I am not asked to fix it :) ).
- Thank you for following up. 99.225.227.193 (talk) 00:56, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
- Yeah, i get you, but we cannot remove the content from this article, maybe a merger proposal could fix that. Best.---Wikaviani (talk) (contribs) 03:00, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
- The problem with a merge proposal even if consensus is gained (or if they decide to boldly do it), is that usually the original proposer has to be willing to merge the content themselves. Fork99 (talk) 13:56, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
- Yeah, i get you, but we cannot remove the content from this article, maybe a merger proposal could fix that. Best.---Wikaviani (talk) (contribs) 03:00, 23 July 2023 (UTC)