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Oppose for nowMovement for Democratic Change is a disambiguation and there's nothing in this article about reunification. Fix the article first to explain the various factions coming and going.
Timrollpickering (
Talk) 17:13, 6 September 2019 (UTC)reply
The reunification of the party is actually mentioned in the lead section, but more info is essential. I agree that this article needs much more content about the various factions but that's no reason to not change a factually inaccurate title. As for the disambiguation page, it should be moved to Movement for Democratic Change (disambiguation), I really should have included that in the proposal.
Charles Essie (
talk) 20:43, 6 September 2019 (UTC)reply
Edit: Maybe it's not necessary to merge it; we could indicate that the three other parties have merged into it on their respective pages and make this one the up-to-date one.
David O. Johnson (
talk) 00:00, 7 September 2019 (UTC)reply
You haven't really specified why your opposed to the name changed.
Charles Essie (
talk) 03:13, 7 September 2019 (UTC)reply
I see where you're coming from. I change my vote to support. The only thing I'm unsure about is, if we move this article to the disambiguation page, how would a user access info on the former offshoots of the party?
David O. Johnson (
talk) 00:33, 8 September 2019 (UTC)reply
We could import content from those articles over here.
Charles Essie (
talk) 02:25, 8 September 2019 (UTC)reply
I would suggest waiting a bit for now, to see what happens in the next weeks. In any case, the new(ly reunited) party can be referred to as
Movement for Democratic Change (2019) with its own new article. –
Kaihsu (
talk) 12:59, 8 September 2019 (UTC)reply
Oppose. The DAB at Movement for Democratic Change has five bluelinks and it really should be seven, as the See also section has two that should be entries, plus one redlink. This seems to really be a merge proposal. It should be discussed as that if so. Or, if a move, then a multi-move involving the DAB. Perhaps create a
BCA in the draft namespace. But this RM just makes things more difficult. Oh, and remember we need to preserve the article histories.
Andrewa (
talk) 18:33, 10 September 2019 (UTC)reply
I actually do not support a merge. I favor including information about the different factions in this article. But I completely oppose eliminating their own articles all together, especially since some of them still exist (like the
Khuphe-led
MDC–T and the Matibenga-led
PDP).
Charles Essie (
talk) 14:39, 11 September 2019 (UTC)reply
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