Talk:Postage stamps and postal history of Malta

Suggest merge
The two articles at Stamps of Malta and Stamps of Malta 2008 both seem to duplicate the content or potential content of this article, which is at a well-established form of name used for many countries. I suggest that the content of the two other articles should be included in this one... and presumably there may be some missing information to cover stamps 2001-2007? If the articles aren't merged, then they need to have clear links between them showing their relationship. PamD (talk) 15:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * the stamps of malta 2008 article will expand later on to include all the stamps released by maltapost in 2008 so im against merging! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Melitikus (talk • contribs) 15:35, 7 November 2008
 * I doubt that there will be enough to say to actually make an actual article with actual text; a list of issues and tabular data is a stamp catalog, not an encyclopedia article. I note that we already have a catalog effort over at wikibooks: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/World_Stamp_Catalogue . Stan (talk) 13:37, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I fully support PamD and Stan. We don't need to make a catalogue of yearly issues here. There is already World Stamp Catalogue for this purpose where you can start a catalogue for Maltese postage stamps right away. All topics about philately and postal history of Malta should now be merged in one article Postage stamps and postal history of Malta. If there are no other objections, can I fulfill this task, please? --Michael Romanov (talk) 02:21, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

I created World Stamp Catalogue/Malta. Now, I think, it's safe to merge the articles here. --Michael Romanov (talk) 03:17, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I completed the first rough major revision of the article using the merged information and additional data. It would be great to revise and complement it further, especially taking into account the Maltese stamps images uploaded by Stan and others at commons:Category:Stamps of Malta. --Michael Romanov (talk) 09:29, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Since the merge of the three articles have been done, I nominate Stamps of Malta 2008 for speedy deletion and make a redirect from Stamps of Malta to Postage stamps and postal history of Malta. --Michael Romanov (talk) 10:03, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

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