Talk:Rick and Bubba

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I've rewritten the article to take care of the copyvio problem. I'd like some input on if this is adequate. --Ichabod 01:09, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merge

I propose that Rick Burgess (radio personality) and Bill Bussey be merged into this article, because there does not appear to be enough content for them to stand on their own. In fact, they could simply be redirected at this point, since there is no unique information in those articles. Khatru2 10:39, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

2nd. 7:25 CT, 27 January 2007 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.184.72.32 (talk • contribs).

I agree. I created this page, and the other two are stubs. Tim Long 03:20, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm pretty new at doing things on Wikipedia, so I'll need a good bit of advice and clarification. I put up the two pages for Rick Burgess (radio personality) and Bill Bussey with the idea of adding more biographical information for each individual later. After looking at the guidelines on Biographies of Living People I surmise that these two people fall right around the border of being noteworthy enough to justify separate bio pages. However, there have been a good many articles published on both of these people (usually together but some separately) that supply a fair amount of information on them.

Also, there are a few things about each of them that might be more appropriate to list on separate bio pages such as Bill Bussey's activity in amateur radio and competitive tennis and Rick Burgess' college football play and evangelistic speaking activities.

Two questions I have are (1) how long is it likely to be before the individual pages are merged (if that occurs) and, (2) can that be reversed later if circumstances change and appropriate information if available for full-fledged separate bio pages. Also, one of the things that prompted my making a page for Rick Burgess (radio personality) was that fact that there were two other Rick Burgesses listed that way, one of them also in radio broadcasting. And, if there was to be a separate page for Rick Burgess (radio personality) it then made sense to have a similar one for Bill Bussey

JPate 14:56, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your input. If you can add verifiable information from reliable sources to the articles about the individuals, please do. In answer to your questions, there is no exact time frame for a merge, but Wikipedia:Merging and moving pages suggests 5 days to 2 weeks. The process is reversible if new sources or evidence of notability can be provided. In the future, it would probably be a good idea to include the information about notability when you initially create the article. In that case, there would be no question about the necessity of a merge. Khatru2 23:05, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the information. I'm in the process of checking the various information and making sure that it all comes from reliable sources and is verifiable, and I'm checking the guidelines for that to get familiar with all the proper procedures. I think I'll have the updated pages ready to go sometime next week.

JPate 22:09, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

If JPate is able to expand the guys' articles properly, then they could continue to stand alone. Otherwise, they should be merged into the main article. You know, we could probably get everything we need with one phone call to Bubba, but that would be [[WP:OR|original research]. Darn. Realkyhick 04:27, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

I redirected the articles because it has been three weeks with no new content added. If anyone finds new information to warrant separate articles, feel free to restore them. Khatru2 08:12, 19 February 2007 (UTC)