Talk:Old Mission State Park

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Photos[edit]

Photos and/or photo uploads are needed.

  • HABS photos may be available for this site.
  • NRHP photos from 1975 linked in article are taken by NPS employee, hence may be public domain and can be used.
  • New photos would be helpful.


Merging[edit]

There is also an article called Old Mission State Park with substantially greater information. It was my thought that the articles be merged, with consistancy to the Wikipedia guidelines. "Vatsun | Talk" 03:23, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I did not notice this posting until just now, after I noticed the Cataldo Mission article was wiped out to redirect to Old Mission State Park, and after I just posted some objection to abruptness of such change at User talk:Vatsun#Cataldo Mission / Old Mission State Park. Since there was Vatsun's notice here, it was not as abrupt as I perceived it. However, the Old Mission State Park article was brand new on March 30, and I do not feel it had "substantially greater" information, that rubs me the wrong way. Who are you to say what you wrote is "greater" than the sources and info and pictures I and another editor had put into Cataldo Mission article? The merger as implemented wipes out the edit history in the pre-existing article, which is counter to usual practice as i know it. The new material should have been added to the pre-existing article, in my view.
Also, although there was this talk comment, it is customary as far as i know to make a proposal using mergeto and mergefrom tags, and secure a consensus before wiping out other peoples' work.
I've asked for Vatsun to comment, please. I currently want to get an administrator's help and reverse the way this was done. doncram (talk) 03:03, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Was the merger comment also posted to the Cataldo Mission article? I thought it was on my watchlist, so I would have noticed if it were. I do like the new pics, but would have kept the old ones in the article as well. We did spend some time reviewing options and choosing it. I object to the loss of edit history. I don't otherwise object to a merger. Coming from the wikiworld of National Historic Landmarks and Registered Historic Places, I like to have an article that uses the name of the landmark as the title. Lvklock (talk) 03:32, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I understand that you may be upset by the way the merger was done, and I am sorry that it was done incorrectly. The only reason that I took out the other picture is because it was very similar to the color picture of the church. I felt that since Old Mission State Park had more information, it would be easier to merge Cataldo into Old Mission State Park. I also understand that since National Historic Landmark takes precedence over state park, it could go the other way. I would not mind if it was undone, as long as the two articles are merged and all of the information is kept. "Vatsun | Talk" 17:17, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]