Talk:West indies
Merging
[edit]As per earlier threads on Talk:West Indies, it makes no sense to have one page called West Indies (disambiguation) and another page called West Indies that redirects to Caribbean. The West Indies is not a subset of the Caribbean, and the Caribbean is not a subset of the West Indies. Since there is no article on the West Indies as a whole, there is no primary topic article, and the disambiguation page should be called simply West Indies.
It seems so obvious that Caribbean is not the primary topic of West Indies, and this was mentioned on Talk:West Indies in earlier years but apparently never done. So as per WP:Proposed mergers and Help:Merging, I'm going to be bold and just merge them, as soon as I get time. The content will be identical to the current content at West Indies (disambiguation), and the title will be West Indies. Also the mis-capitalized West indies will redirect to the merged page.
Let me know before I do it if you think there's a reason to have a merger discussion first. But as Help:Merging says,
- Merging is a normal editing action, something any editor can do, and as such generally does not need to be proposed and processed. If you think merging something improves the encyclopedia, you can be bold and perform the merger, as described below. Because of this, it makes little sense to object to a merger purely on procedural grounds, e.g. "you cannot do that without discussion" is not a good argument.