Talk:Independence of Central America

Merge proposal
This article, as a translation from es:Independencia de Centroamérica, covers essentially the same topic as Act of Independence of Central America. There may be more historical detail in this article that can be merged to the older, more established article, but we certainly don't need two articles on the same topic. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 14:46, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Act of Independence of Central America is about the document rather than the event, much as there is an article about the United States Declaration of Independence separate from the article about, say, the American Revolution. The precedent for some other states' processes of independence from an imperial power indicates that there's room for both articles to exist, though the article on the Act should be expanded to contain more about the actual text, if possible. This article currently seems to be essentially a raw machine translation, which WP guidelines assert is "worse than nothing," since of course a modern browser can already provide readers with an equally "good" translation of the Spanish-language page; if this were turned into a real article, though, it would be a substantial contribution to Wikipedia; maybe I can find the time to start over and produce a real translation of it. In the mean time I support either WP:DYNAMITE-ing this page until someone can produce a real translation or leaving it alone, but I don't think any more history should go into the page on the Act of Independence (what's there is just for context) and I don't think the Act should be merged here even after a real version of this article is up.-Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 18:58, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
 * This article refers to the Independence of Central America as a commemoration of the signing of the Act of Independence of Central America, and then goes on in detail about the events leading up to that signing and the ramifications that followed. So, whether there could be a full article about the process by which Central America gained independence, this article is almost entirely about the Act itself. I agree about the poor translation; there may not be much that is salvageable from this article to merge without a lot of cleaning up first. Also, the article's citation style is unclear, so verifying the information may prove challenging. But if there are any tidbits worth saving, they should be saved at the Act... article. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 11:09, 15 June 2016 (UTC)