Proposed merger between Government waste and Government failure This article i e Government waste covers an important topic but its content is very similar to government failure and it has several problems as already discussed on this i e Talk Government waste talk page Oppose with caveat per comments I ve made on other talk pages the overal topic should be in Government spending As is both of these titles have WP POVTITLE problems Still government failure is similar in topic to Failed state although not on the extreme end of the scale so merging to Government failure is not a good idea Where is there a dividing line But how about this Cut and paste the material and combine the two articles into Government waste And then do a WP BLAR I think opposition to that COA will be minimal Then the issue of merging Government waste with Government spending can be addressed I think you re misunderstanding the concept of government failure It s foundational theory of political science public administration and it basically states that there are some things that the government doesn t do well It complements the theory of market failure which states that there are things that the private sector doesn t do well It has nothing to do with failed states and the concept is entirely NPOV I wouldn t be opposed to moving this article to its own section in government spending but it might be WP Undue Not addressing your comments at the moment I propose we change the location of the discussion page for this merger Per WP MERGE usually the destination page is the location for discussion Andrewman if you ll do the change then wonderful If not I ll do a change a bit later today by doing a cut paste of these comments Note I have cut pasted the above comments from the original posting on the Government waste talk page This was done after redirecting the discussion target on the Merger banners Also I have refactored Andrew s comments by adding information in brackets to clarify what article he was referring to in his comments