Talk:BronxCare Hospital System

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Merger proposal[edit]

Formal request has been received to merge the article Bronx-Lebanon Hospital attack into Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center; dated: May 2018. Proposer's Rationale: Neither article is very long and the attack article contains a lot of unneeded details about the incident and the few needed information can be added to the hospital attack. Discuss here. Richard3120 (talk) 17:34, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Recommend not merging. WP:SUMMARY states "Sections of long articles should be spun off into their own articles, leaving summaries in their place." So spin off into 2 articles, not merge.

The Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center main article has a very short and nicely written summary. This shooting article is the proper spin off. The main hospital article is too short and lacks detail (such as sections in other hospital articles, such as residency training, etc.) but this can be fixed. Add the information from this attack article that have reliable sources and it will adversely change the effect of the main hospital article. This would be analogous to if airline articles and articles of crashes were merged. The airline article would then look like it's dangerous to fly because half of the airline article would be about crashes.

Furthermore, merging would create a situation where there will be conflict as far as what categories to list it. A hospital article shouldn't have categories related to attacks and crime but merging it would harm Wikipedia because the reader reading about other attacks first wouldn't be directed to this article if they searched the category list of articles. Vanguard10 (talk) 06:01, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Recommend not merging. WP:RECENTISM. Merging would also create a situation in which an excessive amount of the article would be devoted to the shooting. This would occur only because the shooting was relatively recent; however, the hospital has a history that goes back more than 100 years. There's much that could be written about it but – I'll admit it – it's not an item of high importance, as reflected by the rating class. Both the hospital and the shooting rate separate articles, as both are notable subjects on their own. Ira Leviton (talk) 23:16, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]