Talk:Allegheny River Lock and Dam No. 3

Latest comment: 4 years ago by DangApricot in topic Rename article

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There are eight articles titled like this one, except for digit (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9). All are a modest paragraph long, and are such that what is said is likely all that will ever be said. (You're asking, or looking for dam #1? No, I didn't forget it. And none of these articles mentions what happened to it. Ha! Ha! If all of the dams were listed in one article, I'd add a paragraph on what happened to it; right now, there's no place). I propose merging them into one article. The title could be "Allegheny River locks and dams" or "List of locks and dams of the Allegheny River" (similar to List of locks and dams of the Ohio River). My experience has been that editors readily or heedlessly split articles, but get contentious about merging them. . These aren't the only dams on the Allegheny, and the proposed merged article could also enumerate those. It'd make a decent length article.

This merge won't lose any information from the encyclopedia. It may make information more accessible, since someone looking for one of these will likely have to page back and forth between articles to locate the relevant one. Especially on a mobile device that only displays one page at a time, that can be very tedious, and load/reload time expensive in elapsed time and data usage. Sbalfour (talk) 20:17, 5 March 2019 (UTC)Reply

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This dam was renamed C.W. Bill Young Lock and Dam by Congress on December 1, 2003 (see Public Law No. 108-137)[1]. Can the article be renamed? It has been YEARS since I actively edited Wikipedia, so I don't know the process. DangApricot (talk) 15:32, 23 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

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