Talk:Sorel, Quebec

Merge into Sorel-Tracy, Quebec

It would make sense to me to merge this article into Sorel-Tracy, Quebec—that article could then be expanded. Anyone have any opinions to the contrary? --dragfyre 20:43, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To a certain extent it comes down to user discretion as to the most logical presentation of the information. For example, the former municipalities that make up today's Toronto have their own articles describing their historical context, even pre-1997 Toronto, but all are considerably shorter than the amalgamated Toronto article, which contains the bulk of the content related to the whole thing. At the other extreme, the former municipalities of New Liskeard, Haileybury and Dymond don't have their own articles at all; all three titles exist only as redirects to a single article on the amalgamated city of Temiskaming Shores. One key difference is that Toronto's article would be insanely long if we handled them all in one article, while even as a merged title the Temiskaming Shores article still doesn't exceed 32K.

In this case, I agree that the redirect would probably make more sense — Sorel-Tracy isn't even close to being long enough to warrant spinning parts of it out, and Tracy is just a redirect, not a separate article. If at some future date the article is long enough that it makes sense to have separate spinouts for Sorel, Tracy and Saint-Pierre, then that can be done at that time, but in the meantime the merger makes more sense to me. Bearcat 02:32, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]