Talk:South Padre Island

Proposal to Redirect
I propose to redirect this page to South Padre Island, Texas because the latter is more comprehensive and covers the topic in more detail. Any objections? 4.15.7.66 (talk) 18:20, 6 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Oppose. The tiny town occupies a pretty small portion of the island. There is arguably more scholarship about the island than about the town. There is usually little reason to conflate a settlement with an island (exceptions can be found, cf. Singapore, but this is does not look like one of them). Викидим (talk) 21:59, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
 * The island is more thoroughly encompassed in Padre Island and Padre Island National Seashore and as a local to this area this "South" designation to the article or query is really more relevant to the city. 162.198.97.65 (talk) 15:25, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I do not have any personal experience, alas. My approach is based on simple facts:
 * There are tons of scientific publications dealing with the aspects of the "South" island, see, for example, this one . Using these works, it is quite possible to write a very detailed (and quite good) encyclopedic article about the island. While at it, I am not so sure that a similar amount of quality research can be found for the town (the current town article certainly uses decidedly unencyclopedic sources, like "fishingbooker.com", etc.).
 * In general, it would be awkward to combine articles on a settlement and the surrounding natural features. Typically, encyclopedias have separate articles in such cases, so do we (cf. Corpus Christi, Texas and Corpus Christi Bay). Ditto for the national park.
 * My objections above do not extend, naturally, to merging this article, together with North Padre Island, into Padre Island. The N and S islands are very closely related, used to connected, and can be described together, the size of N and S articles is small. However, this article exists since 2012, so I presume that many eyes looked at it already and decided to keep it separate, and I do not see a reason to change it. Викидим (talk) 16:01, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I concur, the facts are facts. I am abandoning the redirect and think the same of the North and South islands. Strange they they are separated but they are there. 162.198.97.65 (talk) 16:33, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I see there is some content upstream that is affected, so I will agree with you and abandon this redirect. 162.198.97.65 (talk) 15:40, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Many different related locations with unclear separation in concepts
There are a bunch of related locations and pages on wikipedia with poor separation between them: Ergzay (talk) 17:07, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
 * South Padre Island
 * South Padre Island, Texas
 * North Padre Island
 * Padre Island National Seashore
 * Padre Island


 * Let's keep it in one place (Talk:South Padre Island, Texas). Викидим (talk) 18:05, 8 June 2024 (UTC)