There are three articles that I want to tag for merging into one article. Here is the list:
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I updated the instructions for the target article, but I am not sure if we should merge the three articles into the target. We could update the instructions for the three articles. Any thoughts?
Merging these wouldn’t be a good idea - people will be looking for instructions for their specific devices. While we can have overlapping methods in a more general title, it doesn’t easily direct people to the more specific instructions they might be looking up.
Anna
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+1 to Alex. We generally don’t merge more broad to more specific articles based on platform, especially in tech.
Anna
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Oh and nice update on the broad one - cool that Skype offers this built-in now!
It seems to me that @Awesome-Aasim
was talking about merging the specific articles to the general article, so the above is confusing to me.
Anna
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Feel free to clarify my wording directly when it seems unclear to you @Alabaster
! I meant it in either direction in terms of general merge policy, but yes I can see how a narrow interpretation of my answer might be confusing here. It goes both ways: we don’t merge broad to specific or specific to broad.
I have one more question: Is it acceptable for me to mirror the steps on the target article on the rest of the articles in the list above?
Anna
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“Mirroring” to a certain extent is okay, but copying word for word isn’t - duplicated content across the site can hurt wikiHow’s standing in search results (which will mean fewer people will find the topics that help them). So you can use those as a guide in how you approach the others, but should reword and rework them for each article you want to edit. Make sense?
@Anna
got it. Do you think this thread can be closed?
Anna
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Could probably just let it die out on its own, but since I’m here from the tag, I’ll close it
