Talk:Fort Malden
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 | The content of Fort Amherstburg was merged into Fort Malden on 29 March 2026. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. For the discussion at that location, see its talk page. |
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Link titles, redundant links, and repeated citations
- Kaydetting, please explain your reversions here and here. Per the Wikipedia Manual of Style, "you should add a descriptive title when an external link is offered in the References, Further reading, or External links section", "Generally, URLs are ugly and uninformative", and "The 'printable version' of a page displays all URLs in full, including those given a title, so no information is lost." What is your reasoning for removing the link titles I added? Also, I was not referring to those changes as "redundant links" in my edit summary, but as "link captions".
- Penningtonsarah, in your edit here, you reverted my removal of the second and third instances of the same wikilink in one section. Per WP:OLINK, "Generally, a link should appear only once in an article". Is there a compelling reason for an exception to the guideline here?
- Also Penningtonsarah, you reverted my reference consolidation here. WP:CS recommends this method for repeated instances of the same citation. What value is there to having the same footnotes repeated multiple times at the end of the article? The named references are just as easily found through the inline citations as unnamed ones, and no information is lost. I'm not sure I understand your mention of Turabian Style. Neither of the links to it from WP:CITE mention any prohibition on this type of consolidated listing. Nick Number (talk) 01:13, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
Merge Proposal
I propose merging Fort Amherstburg into Fort Malden. Most of the info in the Fort Amherstburg article appears in the Fort Malden article. The Fort Malden article is more detailed and had copious inline citations. Griffin's Sword (talk) 20:29, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
- Support, assuming my understanding is correct that they're the same site. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 00:29, 8 March 2026 (UTC)
