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~~Oppose~~ support - as long as the separation of the newer items is made without any one item becoming too large. JarrahTree 14:17, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

... if this archipelago article is developed appropriately with adequate understanding of the historical record is elaborated, the stand alone items about former geographical features should stay as is - there is no need to merge. Over 10 years or more material about krakatoa and the historical record and the popular culture references, have had changes - it is well worth looking through the edit histories to see what has happened, before the current state of the articles. The tendency to have one large article about everything was the tendency earlier on, then there were separate articles, and then a consolidation. There needs to be a balance for the reader to be able to access easily. JarrahTree 23:01, 29 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I proposed merging these three stubs Calmeyer, Steers (island), and Poolsche Hoed because the first two were ephemeral sandbanks produced by the 1883 eruption, and the latter was a small rocky outcrop whose only item of note was that someone once said it looked like a hat. Realistically, these three articles are never going to be more than the shortest of stubs, as there isn't much to say about them. They're certainly worth a footnote in a general archipelago article, but not anything more that that. I would oppose the merger of the articles about currently existing islands (Verlaten Island, Lang Island, Rakata, and Anak Krakatoa), as their history is far richer and still ongoing. Anxietycello (talk) 00:09, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]