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The reunification of the party is actually mentioned in the lead section, but more info is essential. I agree that this article needs much more content about the various factions but that's no reason to not change a factually inaccurate title. As for the disambiguation page, it should be moved to
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I actually do not support a merge. I favor including information about the different factions in this article. But I completely oppose eliminating their own articles all together, especially since some of them still exist (like the
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section has two that should be entries, plus one redlink. This seems to really be a merge proposal. It should be discussed as that if so. Or, if a move, then a multi-move involving the DAB. Perhaps create a
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Edit: Maybe it's not necessary to merge it; we could indicate that the three other parties have merged into it on their respective pages and make this one the up-to-date one.
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The only thing I'm unsure about is, if we move this article to the disambiguation page, how would a user access info on the former offshoots of the party?
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is a disambiguation and there's nothing in this article about reunification. Fix the article first to explain the various factions coming and going.
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I would suggest waiting a bit for now, to see what happens in the next weeks. In any case, the new(ly reunited) party can be referred to as
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in the draft namespace. But this RM just makes things more difficult. Oh, and remember we need to preserve the article histories.
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articles should also reflect this, since they have also reunited as part of the Movement for Democratic Change.
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into this article, since Movement for Democratic Change is the current name of the alliance. The info in the
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merge, as joining the two pages together would be particularly confusing given the intervening
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You haven't really specified why your opposed to the name changed.
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I have redistributed the existing text between the three articles
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should be merged with this article and the article renamed
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for additional information. I made the following changes:
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has five bluelinks and it really should be seven, as the
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I think it would make more sense to merge the info from
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We could import content from those articles over here.
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I see where you're coming from. I change my vote to
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