Talk:Fleet

Content copied from one article to another

Swept in from the pub

Hello. Most of the new Fleet article's content has been directly lifted from Farnborough, without credit. What is the procedure in these circumstances? Obviously it would be better if the text wasn't a verbatim copy of another article, but what are the actual rules with regard to this? --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 11:57, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

If you want attribution in the article history, then you could make a dummy edit to add the information as an edit summary (no changes, just add an edit summary and save the page). WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:53, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

The issue here is that the purview of two separate articles should never overlap, especially in the case of two bottom-level destinations. If content belongs in Fleet, then ipso facto it does not belong in Farnborough, and vice versa. -- AndreCarrotflower (talk) 15:55, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

For context, the content that has been copied is 'Get in' and 'Go next' (which currently make up the majority of the Fleet article). The towns are neighbours, so there is a broad overlap in these areas. But of course there is more than one exact way to say roughly the same thing. --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 16:45, 27 April 2018 (UTC)