Editing Talk:Co-counselling (section)

==Suggested merger with RC page==

I have deleted this suggestion as it is wholly inappropriate.  This article is an overview of co-counselling and covers major and minor co-counselling organisations that exist in addition to RC.  The RC article gives considerable additional information that is specific to RC.[[User:John Talbut|John Talbut]] 19:32, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

: Restored template. Whilst I agree that you are right, the issue should be discussed and a consensus reached rather than unilaterally removing the template, or at least it should be left in place until others have had a chance to comment. [[User:Quercusrobur|quercus robur]] 19:58, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

:: OK, though I am not sure about it.  It seems to be a case of Merge tags being overused as discussed in [[Wikipedia talk:Proposed mergers]].  The proposal seems to reflect some of the attitudes expressed above.  I would have thought it could be discussed here first is it was a serious NPOV suggestion.  The proposal tag is of no value to the genuine enquirer, the pages are linked where relevant anyway.[[User:John Talbut|John Talbut]] 10:33, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

:::Well, give it a couple of days at least. The irony of course is that the Co-counselling article was not so long ago ''split'' three different ways to seperate out the stuff on CC, RC and CCI for clarities sake! [[User:Quercusrobur|quercus robur]] 10:37, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

'''Against merger''' No arguments have been advanced as to why a merger is desirable. The merge suggestion was posted by anon user 141.149.139.164 and looks like another attempt by RC to dominate the topic. Each CC organisation deserves its own article and the public deserve an overview. [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not paper|Wikipedia is not paper]], it can give a wide and detailed coverage of all aspects.  [[User:Lumos3|Lumos3]] 10:57, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

:I don't know if we can assume it was "another attempt by RC to dominate", the request didn't seem to come from one of the usual crowd. I suspect it was more a misunderstanding of the differences. If I can synopsise the issue (1) RC'ers tend to view their movement as authentic co-counselling and wouldn't see a difference between "RC" and "co-counselling", (2) other movements whose founders split from RC don't see it that way, (3) there are also people who seem to have separately developed something analagous to "original" co-counselling and call it that. Between these various groups there are disagreements about the theories of co-counselling and practical implementations. The views are very strongly, sometimes almost religiously held. Therefore it is probably best IMO to have separate pages, as this seems to allow slightly more room to express these views and less space for pointless disputation. Opinions welcomed! [[User:MarkThomas|MarkThomas]] 11:17, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

'''Against merger''' just to clarify that I only replaced the merge tag in the spirit of transparency, not because I think its a good idea! [[User:Quercusrobur|quercus robur]] 11:48, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

'''Against merger''' - can the tag be removed now?[[User:John Talbut|John Talbut]] 11:00, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

:Removed- no-one has come forward supporting the idea or given a reason why it was added in the first place [[User:Quercusrobur|quercus robur]] 17:06, 18 May 2006 (UTC)