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Is there any reason that this article is seperate from the entry for 'Policy Debate'?

This is just a less comprehensive version of the other article, perhaps we could add the information that's specific to college debate to the 'Policy Debate' article under a more comprehensive section entitled 'Inter-Collegiate policy debate'?

  • I agree, this entry should be merged with Policy Debate. There's no new or special information here. Hollyvic 14:44, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
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thinning it down

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I'm going to try to remove from this article redundancies - information that's in both this article and the main Policy debate article. Which appears to be most of it. This should also take care of the copyright violation, if it's real, so I'll get rid of that notice. Kalkin

Ok, done. I've replaced pretty much the entire article. The only thing I found worth saving (nonredundant) from the earlier article was the paragraph on speaker points. Speaker points had not been discussed in the main article; I've now transferred a cut-down version of that paragraph to the "Judging" subsection of the main article and an expanded version to the seperate Judge (policy debate). I took slightly-modified versions of the descriptions of leagues and championship tournaments from the main article and put them in a "Governing organizations" section; I wrote a summary "Format" section from scraps, and a "Versus high school" section from scratch. The last should maybe be expanded; having something like that seems to me to be the only legitimate purpose for having a seperate inter-collegiate article. 1/18/06 Kalkin
Also, I'm not really sure what this: However, recently most of these leagues have been combined into one, and the distinctions are minimal. is talking about. There are still seperate national tournaments. But then, I don't know much about the leagues. So I moved the statement into a position where at least it makes sense; I have no idea if it's accurate. Kalkin 07:28, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]