Talk:Taxi dance hall

Merge?

It is not appropriate to merge the Taxi-Dance Hall article with the Taxi Dancer article. The Taxi-Dance Hall really documents the History of Taxi Dancing. As a historic piece it examines a now extinct form of mass entertainment of the United States, which at one time drew tens of thousands of patrons. It is a vivid snapshot in time of America's history which was also picked up by the Free Dictionary’s the Article of the Day. I'm afraid if it get bundled up with the often edited and hacked Taxi Dancer article, it will become fragmented and loose its historic and geographic focus (America). However the Taxi Dancer article is not about a distinct point in time and geography, but draws readers and contributors from different countries as well. Apparently taxi dancing is still used in Argentina, Mexico, England and upon cruise ships, but its modern expression seems very different from its original form which first occurred in San Francisco. The Taxi Dancer article is a good place to draw facts about current and international trends in taxi dancing, as well as documenting taxi dancing's references in film, song, and novels. When we look at the topic "Baseball", we see a brief paragraph about baseball parks which is then hyper-linked to another main article called "Baseball Park" via the Main Article Command. In the same way that Baseball Park has it's own main article tethered to the central article Baseball, so should Taxi-Dance Hall be an independent satellite article which is tethered to the Taxi Dancer article. IMO, many of our articles have become too long as a result of excessive MERGE commands, and defeat the clarity and navigation advantage which modular structure can offer via the Main Article Command, and thus reduce the length of the articles while still giving access to all information by use of the Main Article Command's linking. By use of the Main Article Command, the Taxi-Dance Hall article is tethered to the Taxi Dancer article's History Section via the Main Article Command, and similarly the Taxi Dancer article is tethered to the Taxi-Dance Hall article's Dancers Section via the Main Article Command. As a main contributor to both articles, I have made an effort to not allow much duplicated information. And as the creator of the much researched Taxi-Dance Hall article, I would please like to hear someone with substantial experience at Wikipedia contradict my views here, before a merge is approved and/or executed. Thanks.James Carroll (talk) 17:34, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

I agree, see Talk:Taxi dancer#Merger proposal for more discussion. jnestorius^(talk) 21:31, 18 June 2012 (UTC)