Delirium wrote:
My personal pet peeve is that nearly every short-lived country or
obscure semi-sovereign-at-one-time region has a section on their
stamps that is larger than the section on the area itself. And of
course, this information is interesting if you're a philatelist, and
shouldn't be deleted---but should be somewhere like [[Stamps of
Blah]], rather than making up 80% of the [[Blah]] article.
Hey! You're dissing my material! :-)
Actually, I did this because the short-lived entities tend not
to have their own lengthy articles - their story is usually
subsumed in the history article for the modern-day country,
which is sometimes sensible, sometimes less so. So instead of
creating two cross-connected stubs, I just made a single longer
article. Note that all such have a [[Postage stamps and postal
history of Blah]] redirect, to facilitate future splitting.
I think I'm the only one that has done such a split however.
Stan