User talk:Alexmurray

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Alex Murray and Alex Wharton
Hi. It seems you're giving yourself much more work than you need to by editing two articles that seem exactly the same. Rather than having two articles for the same person under two different names, Wikipedia generally uses what's called a "redirect" from one name to the other. Simply replace everything in (say) Alex Murray with


 * 1) REDIRECT Alex Wharton

then accessing Alex Murray will automatically take you to Alex Wharton. Do it the other way round if you think it's more appropriate.

Then there's only one article to maintain.

Cheers

Tonywalton | Talk 11:21, 9 March 2006 (UTC)