Talk:Death/Archive

Transformers: Animated

it says It is possible to be a living Transformer without a Spark. Two of the Starscream clones lacked Sparks, as did Afterburn in spin-off material. When they die, however, their being Spark-less means nobody cares. Nobody even commented on the demise of the clones and both Megatron and Optimus outright stated that Afterburn wasn't a real person because he'd lacked a Spark. shouldn't it be changed to bot —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.62.15.49 (talk • contribs){{#if:| {{{2}}}|}}.

This is considered to be an archive. Death is the current article. --abates 16:38, 7 September 2009 (EDT)

Why does this exist?

Seriously, why is Death/Archive a separate page rather than just part of the history of the Death page? - SanityOrMadness (talk) 20:30, 5 January 2015 (EST)

Repowers (and other people) did a new Death page as a sandbox and then moved it to mainspace when it was ready, and since that would mean overwriting the history of the original Death page, the original page got moved. --abates (talk) 23:11, 5 January 2015 (EST)

Well, that was never exactly true - deleting a page, moving over it and then restoring the deleted revisions was always a way to merge page histories.

Still doesn't explain why it's still around, separately, since I know for a fact page histories like Ratbat (G1) have been unified since. (Albeit the post-archiving revisions - for link-fixes and so on - would probably have to be permanently deleted to avoid royally messing up the page history). - SanityOrMadness (talk) 00:23, 6 January 2015 (EST)

The original idea was, since the page was going to be totally re-written, I wanted to have the original version saved and easily accessible in case anyone felt that something important had been lost from the old version. (Why I didn't just copy-paste over the original text is beyond me, now; that would have kept the original page in the page history - but as-is, the page history starts from my 2009 rewrite.) At this point, it could probably go away, if it's adding unnecessary link-updating work. -- Repowers (talk) 00:40, 6 January 2015 (EST)