Talk:Q&A (American talk show)

Skip to table of contents

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Q&A (American talk show) article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

United States

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Lists

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Lists, an attempt to structure and organize all list pages on Wikipedia. If you wish to help, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.ListsWikipedia:WikiProject ListsTemplate:WikiProject ListsList articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Television

	Television portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Television, a collaborative effort to develop and improve Wikipedia articles about television programs. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page where you can join the discussion. To improve this article, please refer to the style guidelines for the type of work.TelevisionWikipedia:WikiProject TelevisionTemplate:WikiProject Televisiontelevision articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

The Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use require that editors disclose their "employer, client, and affiliation" with respect to any paid contribution; see WP:PAID. For advice about reviewing paid contributions, see WP:COIRESPONSE.

WWB Too (talk · contribs) has been paid by Beutler Ink on behalf of C-SPAN.

Proposed merger from Q & A (C-SPAN)[edit]

The subject of this article has been pretty obviously duplicated in the article called Q & A (C-SPAN). This one appears to be the older of the two, by approximately four years, although neither have received much attention. The other happens to be the better-written, although that isn't saying much, either. Looking at WP:TV-NAME, it appears that (talk show) is the correct disambiguation, so the content of that article should be moved into this space. But let me make this a little more complicated: there is also an article about an entirely different talk show based in Australia, that is currently titled Q&A (TV program); although according to the same guideline, that is not the proper name, either.

Therefore, I propose that after the initial merger of Q & A (C-SPAN) into this article, this one be re-named Q&A (U.S. talk show), while the Australian program (or programme) whould be renamed Q&A (Australia talk show). I believe this is the most technically correct option, also according to WP:TV-NAME.

Anyhow, in a moment I'll place appropriate tags on both entries related to the U.S. series, and have left alone the Australian one for now. If you agree with the merger proposal, please make it so. And then I will have a rewrite planned to propose once that has been done.

Additionally: here I should disclose that I work with C-SPAN's communications team, so my M.O. on such articles will be to propose big changes rather than implementing them directly, and sticking to patently non-controversial edits where they may exist. That's also why I am doing this from a disclosed secondary account rather than my usual account, just to make that distinction clear. If any other questions, please let me know. Cheers, WWB Too (talk) 20:19, 8 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I would actually merge it the other way, content-wise (thus why I have moved this discussion off of Talk:Q&A (talk show)). This seems uncontroversial enough, so I'm going to just complete it. Q & A (C-SPAN) is the better article, and is where the references live, so that should be the target article. In fact, it's sufficiently better that I'm not even going to merge anything - I'm just going to redirect Q&A (talk show) over to it. Then I'm going to shuffle the titles around as you suggested. Good idea, and thank you for contributing to the talk page where you have a COI. SchuminWeb (Talk) 19:48, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done, done, and done. I've also cleaned up the link structure, pointing all ambiguous titles towards Q&A and then disambiguating the links from there. SchuminWeb (Talk) 20:15, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]