Talk:Nicholas Porter Earp

Proposed merge with Earp family
This article is substantially about Nicholas Earp's family life as is the article about the Earp family. The article about the Earp family is smaller and contains information that can be interleaved with this article. The two articles combined will make one much more informative article. — btphelps (talk to me) (what I've done) 19:37, 17 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Disagree/Comment/Alternative merge I'm normally not one for reducing information, but if there's over-information about his progeny on the NPE article, that should be removed the EF article kept as is. If anything, the Family article should be kept and this one merged into it with Nicolas getting a paragraph or two and that's that. The Earp family, namely Wyatt and his brothers' generation are much more commonly thought of as a unit than NPE is as an individual and the average reader would be more likely to be finding a summary of the comings and goings of Morgan, Virgil, et al. Especially after, say, watching Tombstone. It's nice to have family summaries and have their articles named for the family, rather than having to go to each family member's unique page, or having to go up a generation on the tree to look down at all of them for a brief synopsis of each descendant. JesseRafe (talk) 23:45, 19 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Agree with merger if we try to make the resultant article a repository for everything about the Earp family that isn't covered in the separate articles about the famous Earp brothers. Each of the famous brothers can have about 2 sentences under their subheading, on Earp family, per WP:SS and then their article can serve as the "main article" for the subheading. Similarly, for each of the famous Earp brothers (and perhaps a few commonlaw wives) we can just connect to this one with a short summary also, when it comes to the family bio sections of THEIR articles. That all works. S B Harris 00:32, 20 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Working on completing the merge over the next week or so. — btphelps (talk to me) (what I've done) 04:49, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Nicholas Porter Earp
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Reference named "virgiltestimony": From Wyatt Earp: From Turner, Alford (Ed.), The O. K. Corral Inquest (1992) From Virgil Earp: From Turner, Alford (Ed.), The O. K. Corral Inquest (1992) From Ike Clanton:  

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