Talk:Maggot Therapy

I have tagged the article Maggot therapy for merger into this article, for the simple reason that we do not need Duplicated Articles on Wikipedia. One is sufficient, how we wound up with 2 is a mystery. You are welcome to discuss this proposal below. Thor Malmjursson 16:07, 9 February 2006 (UTC) Thor's pet yack

The maggots used are those which eat dead flesh but not living human flesh (blowflies, usually the greenbottle Lucilia sericata, which is sometimes called Phaenicia sericata''). Some maggots, such as the screw worm Cochliomyia hominivorax, cannot be used because they eat live flesh.''

Can we just get rid of the article that's more amalgamated while preserving the above information, (beneficial and harmful species identification) in this article? Salva 19:33, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I personally think what we should do is get together, look at the 2 articles, see what information is most usable out of both, and merge that information in to form a single article of the one topic. Information that you identified, like above, would be preserved. Thor Malmjursson 20:18, 10 February 2006 (UTC) Thor's pet yack

Concede to the current revision? If so, then I'd like to know how to program Wikipedia to redirect from Maggot (t)herapy to Maggot (T)herapy. This is the first random task edit that I've performed. Thanks for your patience! Salva 23:32, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Its simple, Salva3. Once the 2 articles are merged together, and we create the new single article, Maggot Therapy, we use the old page, Maggot (t)herapy, as the redirect. The text on the page is removed, and in its place, you simply put # REDIRECT followed by the name of the article you wish to redirect to, in normal wiki format, enclosed in [ and ] brackets. Its pretty straightforward. Thor Malmjursson 02:17, 11 February 2006 (UTC) Thor's pet yack

Don't merge!, each type of necrotic wound has its own history and cultural significance which I believe will be lost in a merged page. Seriously though, why is there even a discussion? Merge it already. Maggot therapy has the proper capitalization, more history, and more links (5-0), so I'd probably merge into it. Maggot Therapy is the oldest (but by only a couple of weeks). Ewlyahoocom 19:27, 11 February 2006 (UTC)