Talk:History of Marshfield, Massachusetts

Creating a fork?
Substantial copy of Marshfield, Massachusetts. What's going on here? – PranksterTurtle (talk) 18:11, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's a split from Marshfield, Massachusetts. All is in order except for the split-to and split-from tags. – PranksterTurtle (talk) 18:23, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, Didn't know about this split notice. The27thMaine (talk) 18:28, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Blanking by Pilgrim Rose
So what's the deal with the attempted blanking? I think this is a legitimate split, and re-merging has not been discussed. – PranksterTurtle (talk) 18:55, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

There seems to have been some confusion or lack of clarity on what was happening with the split. Major changes like that would be better addressed in advance, generally speaking. I admit to being a bit miffed since this seems like a slight on my article. PilgrimRose —Preceding unsigned comment added by PilgrimRose (talk • contribs) 20:23, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Whoa, calm down. Nobody is slighting your contributions to Wikipedia -- believe me, I find them very impressive, and I'm sure others do as well.  I think the issue here was that the split was done without sufficient consensus-building on the original talk page, so can we fix that now?  I'd really like to work with you on this, and I'm sure that the Wikipedia community as a whole would not want to lose you.


 * I think that the reasoning behind the split was that the article size was pushing 67 kB. According to the rules of thumb given by WP:SPLIT, articles above 60 kB should probably be split for readability.  Since the history section of the article took up a good bit of this, I think that -- after being discussed -- the history section should have been split off.  The history section on Marshfield, Massachusetts would then have a summary history, with a link at the top of the section pointing to the main history article.


 * Do you really want to merge the history back in and continue work from there? It could be done fairly easily, but I think we should get a decent consensus on what to do with the article before we do so.


 * I would also like to point out that if the history is merged back, the article will still be edited by multiple users, though you'll have done the lion's share of the work. At this point, we can't remove the writing that you did entirely, since you released it under the GFDL, and others have contributed since then.


 * I really hope that we can come to some sort of agreement -- I didn't mean to upset you with anything I did, and I'm sure 27thMaine didn't either. – PranksterTurtle (talk) 21:16, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your courtesy Prankster Turtle. I appreciate your kind remarks. I think I will just let this sit for a bit to see how well or not well the split works. I will follow up with you later. Much obliged. PilgrimRose

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