Editing Talk:Corned beef (section)

== Merge proposal ==
I propose merging [[Bully Beef]] into [[Corned Beef]]. I think the content in SOURCEPAGE can easily be explained in the context of this article, and merging them would not cause any article-size or [[WP:UNDUE|weighting]] problems.

Specifically, a lot of the length of this article is used up in pretty redundant headings (I don't think the current regional/country breakdown on this page is very good), plus a fair few bits on this page are talking about canned corned beef.

Meanwhile the 'bully beef' page:
* Firstly, it's an odd name for the page as discussed on it's talk page by other people, nobody really calls it that. 'Bully beef' is a niche bit of historical military slang which isn't present in the civilian population, so "corned beef" or "canned corned beef" is a better name for that page.
* Secondly, the product being talked about is not very different. It's often in the UK now not sold in a can but rather just sliced and packaged like any other lunch meat, and it's only real difference to the corned beef talked about here is that it has been minced.
* Thirdly, some of the text on the Bully Beef page is kinda nonsense, the whole talk about "iconic" rectangular cans which are pretty similar in appearance to say, the rectangular can of spam, and the patent which we talk so much about was denied because of prior art (so clearly somewhere/something else was already using a similar can!) We could probably condense that whole chunk to a shorter mention that it began to appear in rectangular tin cans around WW1/Boer. Likewise we don't need to talk about key-open cans so much, because that is discussed on the page [[Can opener#Twist-key_can-opener]], and is an innovation applied to a number of canned food products. I reckon that page will probably shrink to about 2/3s of 3/4s of it's current length.

So referencing [[WP:MERGEREASON]], there is significant overlap between these two pages (2), the text of the two pages is not tremendously long (3), and the article on bully beef needs you to understand what corned beef is, as "bully beef" is just a minced and canned form of corned beef (5). Thus my position would be to '''Merge''' the pages. [[Special:Contributions/&#126;2026-86916-9|&#126;2026-86916-9]] ([[User talk:&#126;2026-86916-9|talk]]) 22:43, 1 March 2026 (UTC)