Talk:Health Minister (Denmark)

Make redirect?
I've re-established Ministry of Health (Denmark) based on a translation of the Danish Wikipedia article, and included in it the list of ministers that forms most of this article. Minister of Health (Denmark) has always redirected to the article on the ministry, and I believe it would be more logical for this one to do the same; I can't see what information would usefully be in this article that would not logically belong in the article on the ministry. I note that created both this and the ministry article, both on the same day in 2006, so I'm pinging them in case they have an argument I haven't thought of (or can see any deleted revisions that make the picture less clear). But I don't see the need for a full merge discussion; does anyone else who may be watching? Yngvadottir (talk) 17:49, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
 * For example for the US government, all the secretaries (ministers) have their own article, see e.g. United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. I guess there can be multiple notable positions within a ministry which are notable enough in themselves to warrant a separate more in-depth wiki article; look at all the links at United_States_Secretary_of_Defense. So in theory a separate article can make sense; whether there is enough content that a separate article makes sense Health Minister (Denmark) for now is another question. Thue (talk) 22:21, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't see what it could contain that the article on the ministry doesn't. (Currently the only way in which this article has more information is that it has the precise dates of their terms, day and month as well as year.) In theory I could take the list of ministers out of the ministry article, but I don't see the logic in having that list in a separate article, and where would the list of permanent secretaries go then? Yngvadottir (talk) 04:23, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
 * You could make a history of notable ministers and their actions. Obviously the current article obviously contains no such thing, but it could in the future. Thue (talk) 11:02, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
 * That's a thought, but the ministry doesn't have much history because it keeps getting combined with other ministries. If you know of any such material&mdash;relating to their tenure at the health ministry, specifically&mdash;then could you add a brief summary? Otherwise I think I'll go ahead and make it a redirect in a few days, with a very clear edit summary of course. (I think there's a template for "redirect with history"). I'm inclined to think someone would have included such material somewhere on da.wikipedia, though, and I checked all the ministers' articles there to determine how to link them, and didn't see anything, and I didn't notice anything in the sources I incorporated in the article on the ministry. Yngvadottir (talk) 12:55, 17 October 2016 (UTC)