Wikipedia:Semi-duplicate
Wikipedia:Semi-duplicate
A semi-duplicate is an article or other page that has a significant overlap with another article or other page or is otherwise a topic that would expect to be combined in 1 article. A semi-duplicate is distinct from a full duplicate in that a full duplicate is on exactly the same thing such as petrol/gasoline where the different names refer to exactly the same thing. Generally full duplicates are created accidentally when people don't realize that an article already exists while a semi-duplicate is usually created deliberately, that is to say they think a distinction should be made even though it probably shouldn't. Lsjbot created many semi-duplicates on the Cebuano and Swedish Wikipedias for example creating separate articles for municipalities in Italy with the same name as a settlement even though it is normal for such topics to be combined into a single article. If such articles do exist they tend to become content forks of each other however the term content fork can refer to a descriptive title that is split from the main article to represent a particular point of view (otherwise it may be argued this page is itself a semi-duplicate). Although Wikipedia is not a dictionary it is usually desirable to combine certain topics that have the same name and overlap.
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This page in a nutshell: Some topics that have the same name as a similar entity have only 1 combined article. |