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Vegaswikian's idea sounds like a good one. Somebody can propose yet another move request (third time's a charm!) at Mexican-American War and it is made clear that the consensus there affects all related articles and categories. I advise that the decision applies to article content as well so the edit war doesn't just shift there. As the most active admin at WP:RM, I think Vegaswikian would be a good choice to close that move after everybody has had their say. Basically the same thing as the [binding] RfC idea, just accomplished slightly differently. –CWenger (^ • @) 06:41, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Another idea is one I've been floating but have not formally proposed yet - almost entirely eliminate the use of dashes in WP (titles and text), except in a few very rare articles (like the one about dashes). This would affect not only the family of Mexican-American War articles, but all articles that uses any kind of dashes, and the content of WP:MOS. --Born2cycle (talk) 06:48, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this is not a debate for here, but a debate for the MOS. We need to decide what to do there, and then apply it to all articles. Or even to abolish the MOS altogether. This piecemeal attempt to subvert the MOS while maintaining it in name is just stupid. — kwami (talk) 07:55, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

CWenger:

• Please give summarising information so that newcomers can immediately grasp what's happening:

Admin Vegaswikian has closed the current request to move (RM), retaining the existing title for the article: Battles of the Mexican–American War (with an en dash).

• I hope you don't mind that I renamed this section so that watchlists will show what's going on, also.
• Please note what I have been reminding people of all along: the established way to deal with a suite of related articles is to make a multiple-move request. (Remember, CWenger? That was an element of the peace proposal that we cooked up.) See the relevant section of WP:RM:

On one of the talk pages of the affected articles, create a request and format it as below. The following is an example for three pages.

[details follow]

After you make your move request on the talk page of one of the articles, per above, RM bot will automatically place a notice on the talk page of the additional pages that are included in your request, advising that the move discussion is in progress, where it is, and that all discussion for all pages included in the request should take place at that one location.

The template {{movenotice}} can be used on the current page (not the talk page) to draw attention to the proposed move and the discussion on the appropriate talk page.

• If correct procedure had been followed at the start, all those weeks ago, we wouldn't be in this situation now. And if people had adopted our peace proposal at Talk:Mexican-American War, that too would have shortened all this.
• All that said, Kwami is right: the debate belongs at WT:MOS in the first instance. A multiple-move request would be stupidly premature (sphecid, in fact!) if the general issue were not first dealt with in that general forum.

Noetica^Tea? 08:19, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I did not think such an extensive explanation was necessary because I assumed most people looking at this were already aware of what is going on. I doubt we have many "newcomers" at this page. –CWenger (^ • @) 18:28, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, to be clear, though, this is essentially an existential question for the MOS, right? I think Kwami/B2C have a good point, that this is probably a discussion that shouldn't be happening on the Mexamwar talk pages. ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 20:17, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There are several such discussions there now. As usual, they are coming to nothing; WT:MOS is closely watched by a small minority of editors with strong opinions. One of the issues here is whether that benighted guideline overrules all of Wikipedia's policies Demanding discussion there constitutes drowning out input from the rest of Wikipedia. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 14:50, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Good point! It shouldn't be here either, though. ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 17:27, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]