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Merger proposal

I propose to merge Direct free kick and Indirect free kick into Free kick (association football) (with the latter becoming a full article rather than a redirect as it is now).

It isn't clear what benefit we gain by having two separate pages. Direct free kicks and indirect free kicks are identical, except for two details:

  • the fact that one can score a goal directly, while the other cannot
  • the list of offences punishable by each.

All other material we might want to include in the page (e.g. the procedure for taking the kick, punishments for infringements, history) is identical betwen the two subjects. In the case of history, this is a particular problem, because over the years some offences have changed from being punished by an indirect free kick to being punished by a direct free kick. This will make the history section disjointed between the two articles.

In order to maintain the two articles, we would need to duplicate a large amount of material. Most changes to one article would need to be duplicated in the other. While a significant amount of the material on each page does appear to be copy/pasted, there are also discrepancies where there should't be -- for example, in the "Procedure" section, which should be identical (since there is no difference in procedure between the two in the laws of the game).

These two pages create a maintenance problem and an organization problem that outweigh whatever marginal benefit is gained from having two top-level articles.

Grover cleveland (talk) 01:38, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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