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Proposal to merge ?
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:It's a fair comment to make in WP, though hard to quite explain clearly. With all the refs and such WP tries to insist on. It's a craftsmanlike point, and equally hard to understand. In Pirsig's terms, it's a kind of 'quality'. That took a writer of Pirsig's quality to describe, I don't have such hopes of my own prose... [[User:Ww|ww]] 16:55, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 
==Proposal to Merge==
 
I've proposed that the [[Oberon-2]] article should be merged into this one. My reasons are --
 
* Oberon-1 was never really much used, and needs only to be mentioned as a historical curiosity
* Oberon-2 is usually called just "Oberon"
* similarly, several articles that ''ought'' to link to Oberon-2 are actually linked to this one
* most of the available documentation and implementations are for Oberon-2
* the features that keep Oberon alive only really began with Oberon-2
 
If you look at the Oberon-2 article, you'll see it's quite short, because once you've discussed Oberon-1, there's not much more to say about it. So, without any negative feelings towards Oberon-1 or -2, I think these two articles should merge; and the Oberon-1 article is larger and better linked into Wikipedia.
 
What do you guys think?
 
[[User:OrangUtanUK|OrangUtanUK]] 13:23, 10 August 2006 (UTC)