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Dobry (talk) Please excuse my errors in adding footnote citations to the article on Donald L. Barlett as I am a Wikipedia newbie and the coding here isn't intuitive or familiar to me yet. Would somebody with more experience help me out and tell me what I'm doing wrong? I would very much appreciate it if you would explain my problem so that I won't do it again. Dobry 21:07, 30 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Dobry (talk) The two articles on Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele have a lot of overlap. Couldn't we combine these into one article? They are a team. They are unlike Evans and Novak because Novak's career, for instance, worked separately from his partner. Barlett & Steele have always worked together. I'm new at Wikipedia and I'm not sure how the community handles these cases. Dobry 21:12, 30 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Dobry (talk) I can't figure out how to edit the top of the article but Donald Barlett should be changed to Donald L. Barlett as he always uses his middle initial in publications. The same would go for James B. Steele (proposed) as opposed to just James Steele (current). Why can't I figure out how to edit the top section? Dobry 21:22, 30 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Combination of 2 articles and/or alteration of both
The James Steele article and the Donald Barlett, as stated by Dobry, has tremendous amounts of overlap. In fact, the first paragraph in this article is almost entirely about the two and their achievements, rather than Barlett himself. For this reason, changing the verbiage of both articles to more reflect the person the article is about rather than this large overlap would have a lot of benefits, or just merging the two by keeping the overlap and just adding separate topic groups for individual facts about them (DOB, family life, education, etc). Gtmbro (talk) 17:45, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
