Talk:Peter McDonald (poet)
 | Text and/or other creative content from this version of Peter McDonald (poet) was copied or moved into Peter McDonald (critic) with this edit on 17 November 2014. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. |
History of a merger
[edit]These were two long-standing articles about the same man: Peter McDonald (critic) was created (over a redirect) on 29 December 2005 as "Peter McDonald" and moved to the "... (critic)" title on 25 March 2008, and Peter McDonald (poet) was created on 11 February 2006 (by an editor who made 7 edits that day and none since then). The disambiguation page Peter McDonald was created on 25 March 2008, and included the "... (critic)" page, but the "... (poet)" wasn't added until 14 November 2010 (with no date of birth). No-one noticed they were the same man until someone inappropriately slapped a stub tag on "... (poet)", which brought it to my attention while stub-sorting: Googling around to try and upgrade the article, I found the other article... and the rest is history. PamD 20:39, 17 November 2014 (UTC)