Talk:Facilitated Communication

message: User:QIM produced this page.  I'm the primary advocate for FC on the net and also have a leading autism advocacy on the net.  I know personally and have worked with Rosemary Crossley who created Facilitated Communication Training FCT
My "Autismlist" is here:  
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/autismlist/?yguid=147071382
My Facilitated Communication advocacy is here:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/autismfc/?yguid=147071382
I have participated in most of the major autism forums on the net since 1996 and have been a residential worker for over thrity years.  I'm presently associated with The Meyerson Foundation for my autism advocacy.
In conjunction with my autism advocacy I am also a men's advocate and was a major contributor to the masculism page since the inception of Wikipedia.  We love Wikipedia!!  They are very fair and professional here and I should know since the masculism page was one of their more difficult and popular venues at Wikipedia.
: There's a lot of duplication between this and  Facilitated communication - lower-case c. The lower-case spelling is preferred on wikipedia, which frowns on excess capital letters ... could you take your material from this article and weave it into the old one? Right now we have two articles with (virtually) the same title and a lot of overlap - very confusing to readers. If you think "facilitated communication training" needs a separate article, then it could be created under that title. - DavidWBrooks 14:07, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Posted by 65.3.11.183 to the article, moved to talk by Hadal 17:52, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)

message: Regardless of its validity, having two overlapping articles is confusing and silly. They should be merged - which doesn't mean the result has to make sweeping conclusions one way or the other, just that there isn't enough difference between Facilitated communication and Facilitated Communication  to warrant two articles! - DavidWBrooks 12:40, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge isn't delete

message: I propose that we postpone the discussion about the content of the article until they are merged. As QIM is the author of both articles I think he should be the one to merge them. 
Or is't this correct?  Is anyone allowed to merge them?
user: Allmuth
: Anybody can do any editing/writing on Wikipedia - that is its strength (and its weakness). So if you want to merge, give it a shot. The more voices we get, the better, especially since this article - like many alternative-health articles - could become a battleground between true believers and total scoffers, if we're not careful. 
: Here's the way to merge: Don't touch Faciliated Communication (upper-case C), but edit Facilitated communication (lower-case C, the Wikipedia style) to incorporate material from both articles. Put an italic note at the top of this article (upper-case C) noting what your are doing. Ask for comments on both pages. Once the lower-case C article seems to be roughly settled, we'll turn the upper-case C article into a redirect to  the lower-case C article, thus preserving the Talk on this page. - DavidWBrooks 19:18, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  who is authorized to merge the articles?