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I moved all the comments off of the page. I think it's a cleaner look for the page when it's been tagged 'Departed Business.' In general, unless people object, I'm going to archive all the comments off and bold them at the bottom. I'm keeping the comment bar because someone, such as Bev Sykes just did, might comment on past memories. Here's the question I made this page for: should someone sort through all the comments/reviews, and actually integrate them into the entry? The manager spent a lot of time trying to get that type of stuff removed from the page, but once upon a time the wiki used to try to include commentary into the entry. ie: A ton of comments were about the transition from "fine dining" restaurant to a fraternity/sorority bar scene at night. General vibes and trends from the comments I think are stuff that should be put back into the entry. Also, should any comments be culled from archiving? There's a lot of very short ones that simply comment on "good bar", "bad food", etc. Not an extensive review or critique, and if it's incorporated into the entry, is it worth keeping? etc. -ES
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Combining and summarizing the history of reviews would be great for the entry (or any entry)... but it's a surprisingly tough job and seldom gets done for that reason. —Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards
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While still retaining the original comments on a separate page, right? —JonathanLawton
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If you want. It depends on the comments. Sometimes it makes sense to just delete them, like when people "edit from the comment box", adding purely factual information. There's no real reason to keep a comment that consists entirely of, "They now open at 10am" after the entry itself has been updated. IMO, YMMV, etc. When you actually zip through them, you find that a surprising number are like that, or they refer to a former version of the entry itself (as opposed to the topic of the entry) and are no longer relevant. "Why isn't there anything about the playground" doesn't make sense to keep when the entry now covers the playground. —Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards
I agree with the comment integration, but I don't see the need as clearly to archive off the comments post closure in this case. If the comments left about a closed business continued to grow and grown and make the page unwieldy then I could see a need, but for a handful of comments I'm not sure I see the need. I think a really smart way to approach the integration (at least while getting people used to it) is to create the talk page, note the comments that will be removed and how the meat of those comments will be integrated into the new version of the text. Let at least one other person agree on the integration, and then remove those comments and include their substance in the article. If we start on a mass of integration it will be hard to make sure that there isn't whitewashing going on under the guise of integration. —JasonAller
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I agree about the post-closure comments. I think it makes more sense to leave them on the main page. Also, I share your concern about whitewashing. I'm not sure comments should be integrated at all, especially once archived as is the case here. I suppose factual comments like JW mentioned above might integrate cleanly, but integration beyond that is probably not desirable. —JonathanLawton
