Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk/Archives/2016 January 17

= January 17 =

10:12:20, 17 January 2016 review of submission by Pepino2410
Hi there,

my intention was to translate an existing article in German wikipedia into English. Sarah Tkotsch is a known person here in Germany who plays in television-series as an actress. Here German wikipedia article https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Tkotsch

so she is a notable person. She has already an article in wikipedia. Because of that I don't know what I can do to "improve" the english Version. It is a translation.

11:58:42, 17 January 2016 review of submission by FilipeBSilva
This article was debied publication based on the reason that there is already an existing wikipedia article with the title "Self-Healing Material". However, the existing article covers only part of the subject and is mainly concerned with self-healing polymers only. In the present piece, we assembled a much more complete view of the subject of self-healing materials.

We now propose to use the contents of this draft to greatly improve the contents of "Self-Healing Material" while shifting the contents of the existing page to a new article called "Self-Healing Polymer". The background of the effort to write this Wikipedia contribution: We are a group of 15 PhD fellows all working together in the EU Marie-Curie Research Training network on "Self-Healing Materials - from Concepts to Market", covering various material classes that are designed for an increased sustainability by providing a strategy for self-repair. This is an active area of materials research and currently the first examples of materials with improved self-repair find their way into application. During one of our last meetings we found that the existing Wikipedia Article on "Self-Healing Materials" covers only a very small area of the existing material classes: it is indeed concentrated on polymers only. However, there a far more classes of materials that are currently developed for self-healing capability. As such, we combined our efforts to write an article that covers more classes of materials, including ceramics, metals, asphalt, concrete, composites, ... Our suggestion is the following: The existing page is actually a quite nice sum up for Self-Healing Polymers and should be renamed accordingly. Simultaneously, the new article can be uploaded as "Self-Healing Materials" and will contain also a link on the page more specializing on the polymer aspect.

What do you think? And if this is approved, what is the best way to proceed with it?

Hi FilipeBSilva, another option is to simply add the content of your draft to the existing article followed by editing to remove duplication and maintain the logical flow and structure of the combined article. Imho it's better to have a single fairly comprehensive article about a subject than to subdivide it into multiple shorter subtopics. It's only when the text length of an article exceeds 100kB that we really have to consider splitting it. A practical consideration is that creating a new different article under the title of an existing article, which has been moved, ends up having links to the older article pointing to the new one instead, which gets confusing. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 21:15, 18 January 2016 (UTC)