Talk:Globe Town, London

Redirect instead of delete?
Thanks for taking a look at these articles, User:TheSLEEVEmonkey. Again, we should be careful we aren't deleting any useful content here. User:Hopeful2014 sockpuppets built this article by moving paragraphs from the Bethnal Green article (and others?), based on their own decision that certain landmarks (like the Cranbrook Estate and the Bethnal Green mulberry tree) were not physically in Bethnal Green at all. Combining this with their decision that Globe Town is not even a part of Bethnal Green, they have removed all mention of these landmarks from the Bethnal Green article. We should move that content back, if any of it is of encyclopedic value.

The safest option might be to redirect this page to Bethnal Green instead of deleting it, so that the older page versions can still be accessed in the future? --Lord Belbury (talk) 19:03, 28 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Yes, I guess it is "safer" to redirect, if you think there is anything worth salvaging. I suppose I was being a bit heavy-handed as the level of disruption is so high it seems easier at this stage to remove and create again, rather than to try and pick through all the articles and guess where each paragraph was lifted from. Especially as virtually the entire article is just a list of trivia of no encyclopedic value anyway. But I'll defer to your judgement if you think redirecting is the correct course of action here. I'll try to work on all of the affected articles over the coming weeks but it might take me a while to make any progress. TheSLEEVEmonkey (talk) 09:22, 29 August 2019 (UTC)


 * I think we need to do a brisk paragraph-by-paragraph check of this: any paragraph which has substantial content and is written grammatically needs checking as it's likely to have been copied or moved from elsewhere. It should be relatively easy to find the original source, as in most cases a Google search for a sentence will turn up old mirrors of the original article. (Searching for By 1824, with restrictions on importation of French silks relaxed, up to half these looms became idle and prices were driven down. tells us that this was copied from the Bethnal Green article, and indeed the sentence is currently in both articles.)
 * Whether we do this by redirecting this article and referring to its history, or deleting it but keeping a draft copy somewhere (to be deleted later), I honestly don't mind. --Lord Belbury (talk) 10:05, 29 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Understood. I have started the work of going paragraph by paragaph and removing or copying across - only the history section remains which I will get to next. After that it should be safe to delete TheSLEEVEmonkey (talk) 10:26, 29 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Sounds good, thanks for your work on this. --Lord Belbury (talk) 12:24, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Is this okay to redirect to Bethnal Green now? --Lord Belbury (talk) 09:12, 11 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Yes, I would say so. TheSLEEVEmonkey (talk) 10:10, 11 September 2019 (UTC)