Talk:Puncture (film)

Chris Evans disambiguation fixed. Vipinhari || talk 03:58, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Who is "Thompson Needles" in the real world story?Daviddouglas1949 (talk) 20:38, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Merging Michael David Weiss article with Puncture (movie) article

I am not sure it is a good idea to merge both page. As you can read in the Merging documentation :
There are several good reasons to merge a page:
Overlap: There are two or more pages on related subjects that have a large overlap. Wikipedia is not a dictionary; there does not need to be a separate entry for every concept in the universe. For example, "Flammable" and "Non-flammable" can both be explained in an article on Flammability.

Here I believe that both article didn't had a large overlap since the Puncture Article is mainly referring to the movie, while Michael David Weiss page were all about the man and his achievements.

Merging should be avoided if
2. The separate topics could be expanded into longer standalone (but cross linked) articles
3. The topics are discrete subjects and deserve their own articles even though they may be short

Both case seems to apply here in my opinion.

The article on Michael David Weiss were focusing on his life more than the movie even though the article had no choice to be a little cross-linked. I believe the original Michael David Weiss page should be restored. Anyone else has an idea about this issue? ~ ForceMagic ~ (talk) 05:44, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

I totally agree. There is absolutely no information on his life or his death on the internet with the exception of his obituary. The movie suggests that he might have been murdered by the GPO who his firm was up against. That, to me is very interesting, and is something that should be addressed in his article alone, as I've seen many discussions online about the suspicion of murder. I think the two articles should be un-merged. Taylor2646 (talk) 07:08, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

The problem is that the movie is essentially the only source of information on Weiss. Every other source I found referred to the movie as an authority or was an out-and-out review. Mangoe (talk) 13:06, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

I agree on that since I wrote the original article and it was really hard to find any good source. However, the official website about the movie found interesting articles and documents that was supporting what they were saying. When I wrote the article in the first place, I double checked on each of those document and I wrote reference to them directly instead of referring only to the movie website. I wish to un-merge it as well, since I truly believe both subject are fundamentally different. Later on, more information could be found and added to the Michael Weiss page which will not be the case for the movie. Since, I wrote the original article, I believe I would be in a conflict of interest position if I un-merge the article myself. I'd like someone else that understands the problem to do it. ~ ForceMagic ~ (talk) 19:09, 22 June 2012 (UTC)