Talk:Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail

Merger proposal

Because there is only a little information here, I propose to merge and redirect this article to United States National Trails System. If someone is willing and able to expand the content on this trail later, then it could easily be broken out into a separate article again. Ground Zero (talk) 14:24, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

Support per nom. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 21:25, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose for the reasons I stated at Talk:United States National Trails System. If we consider this short article to be worse than nothing, then instead of merging we should delete it and let a redlink encourage the creation of a better article. But I think it's fine to keep it as is, at least for now, in the hopes that someone will improve it. I will try to work on it at some point but there are a lot of itineraries being deleted and merged right now and it's hard to keep up. —Granger (talk · contribs) 16:57, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

I don't agree that "a redlink encourage[s] the creation of a better article". I think someone who wants to expand coverage on a subject will just add stuff to an overview article until they (or another editor) decides to separate it out into a new article. It happens often here, e.g. districtification of large cities, or the recent project that few of us undertook to split Northern Ontario when it became too big. Ground Zero (talk) 14:31, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

• I support the original proposal given the article’s current lack of content. --Comment by Selfie City (talk | contributions) 18:15, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

It stills feel pretty random, but Mx. Granger has added a good amount of content, so I am withdrawing the merger proposal. Ground Zero (talk) 21:22, 16 October 2021 (UTC)