Talk:En dash

Merge suggestion
Please "* Support" or "* Oppose" the merge-into-dash suggestion.


 * Oppose. All this info is of course already in the dash article, from which I copied it. I made the en dash article so that the en dash could be directly referred to without all the complex overhead of the main article.  Is that an acceptable excuse for an article?  I like to refer to it in my edit summaries. Dicklyon 02:52, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support - There are several good reasons to merge a page:
 * There are two or more pages on exactly the same subject.
 * There are two or more pages on related subjects that have a large overlap. Wikipedia is not a dictionary; there does not need to be a separate entry for every concept in the universe. For example, "Flammable" and "Non-flammable" can both be explained in an article on Flammability.
 * If a page is very short and cannot or should not be expanded terribly much, it often makes sense to merge it with a page on a broader topic.
 * If a short article requires the background material or context from a broader article in order for readers to understand it.
 * Seems to fit all of the criteria perfectly. The same content should not exist in two places.  This should very clearly be a redirect to Dash — Omegatron 04:40, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

OK, done. I don't think anyone is going to care, and it won't break any en dash links. Thanks for pointing out the reasons page. Dicklyon 05:11, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

But my edit back to a redirect doesn't seem to be taking effect. Maybe some caching thing. I'll check tomorrow. Dicklyon 05:19, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

It started working, sort of, but looks like it needed an underscore as in en_dash for the anchor. Dicklyon 06:14, 11 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, it won't go directly to the named anchor until either 218 is fixed, or my javascript workaround is included sitewide.  I have the workaround installed in my own profile and forget that regular people aren't redirected to the appropriate section. — Omegatron 12:24, 11 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Which I believe reminds me why I made the article in the first place. It's a bummer.  What should we do? Dicklyon 14:57, 11 September 2006 (UTC)


 * It needs to be a redirect as I said. Why would people clicking on the link be terribly inconvenienced by reading about the en in context with the other dashes?  Especially the em, which are sometimes used interchangeably.
 * If you want the redirect to go directly to the desired section, you'll have to get a bunch of people to bug the developers. They really don't like to do any actual development, apparently... — Omegatron 15:12, 11 September 2006 (UTC)