User talk:Captain Idiot

Re your question - if it's something that you have all the info for at your disposal, I'd create a sandbox at User:Captain Idiot/Sandbox and work on the article there until you're happy with it then you can make one edit to the article with your final version.

alf - thanks for the welcome - it is appreciated!

the article in question is biometric passports. However, these should actually be referred to as 'e-passports', so I assume that I should create a new article.

If I do this, how do we handle merging of the two articles? Probably only a couple of paragraphs from the original article should be kept.


 * OK, the instructions for this are at Wikipedia:Merging and moving pages. --Alf melmac 11:39, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

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