Talk:History of Christianity in the United States

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rv redirect; many articles on [X] have a [History of X] article; if there is substantial redundancy, then summarize the "History" section of the [X] article; [Christianity in the United States] should cover present-day with a summary History section --12:16, June 5, 2009 Richardshusr

While many articles on [X] have a [History of X] article, most articles on [X] do not have a [History of X] article.

You need a reason to take this action and you have not given any. Normally this is done for the size, but...

(1) Christianity in the United States is only 64 KB so it is not all that long that we need to split it badly. Of that 64 KB, about 26 KB, a third of it, Demographics-- is all the form of charts-- making it easier than 64 KB prose whould be. Further limited the need for a split.

(2) Taking the History part of Christianity in the United States is the other 38 KB, so even if you wanted to split it for readablity, you didn't gain much-- all you did was create a pair of nearly idenical articles, with the added difficuly to maintain.

(3) if you wanted to split for article size, then you should summarize the history in Christianity in the United States. Other wise you have forking. The addition on only Roman Catholicism and adding it all in one spot also looks and smells like forking. --Carlaude ^talk 17:40, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

It may look and smell like forking but it's just laziness and getting wrapped up in other projects at Wikipedia. I'm better at expanding than I am at summarizing so I figured I'd leave the summarizing task to someone else. I'll go back and take a look at Christianity in the United States and see what I can do to summarize the History section. More likely, I'll wind up expanding this article so as to create more of a difference between the two articles. --Richard (talk) 19:40, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

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