Talk:Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program

merge to Pat Roberts

With only a single 3rd party reference, it's not clear that this article can be supported separately. Any issue with merging it to Pat Roberts?--RadioFan (talk) 20:21, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

It was created three (3) minutes ago. Maybe you could (a) give it a bit more time and (b) follow WP:BEFORE, not least by finding the public debate referred to in the first Counterpunch article. Thank you. Disembrangler (talk) 20:24, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

If you aren't done, adding {{underconstruction}} will help signal to other editors that you intend to continue editing it. How else are we to know? What improvements do you see being made to this article?--RadioFan (talk) 03:29, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

There is no deadline. It's already tagged Stub, and has enough content to justify initial existence. See also WP:IMPERFECT - articles don't come into the world fully-fledged. In any case, a more appropriate RC Patrol response would be to suggest that if more content isn't added after a while, a merge to Pat Roberts might be appropriate, and watchlisting the article. As to the substantive issue: a merge would risk WP:BLP issues arising, since it's a controversial program. I don't have time to expand the article now - but the whole point of Wikipedia is that I don't have to. Thanks, Disembrangler (talk) 06:04, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Can we get back to the original suggestion? Why do you see this as a separate article rather than a section of Pat Roberts?--RadioFan (talk) 11:47, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Same reason JFK Airport isn't part of JFK. Hope the present expansion of the article is enough. If not, a merge might be reasonable, but not with Roberts - it would be to some kind of overview article of these programmes (which overview may not exist yet). Disembrangler (talk) 21:39, 24 June 2009 (UTC)