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Merge re Harvard governance[edit]

I'm guessing that the articles on the President and Fellows, on the Overseers, and on the President, might be usefully combined into a single article on Governance of Harvard University, since the three subjects are so closely intertwined and an understanding of any of them, beyond a very superficial one, demands disucssion of its relationship to the other two. But I lack the understanding to embark on this myself. EEng (talk) 17:54, 23 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds like a sensible suggestion. I will look into it. Thanks. Safehaven86 (talk) 19:18, 24 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm skeptical. Each of the articles at present is headed by the name of something that exists in the real world; if we merged them we'd have to give the article a name we made up just for the Wikipedia. And since the President and Fellows of Harvard College are the oldest corporation in the Americas, they certainly seem to deserve an article in their own right. Doops | talk 19:06, 25 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nonsense. Giving an article to every entity that "deserves" one doesn't trump what best serves the reader's understanding. Anyway, Harvard itself seems to think there's such a thing as "Governance of Harvard University" -- see http://www.harvard.edu/harvard-governance. Appropriate redirects would be created, of course. (BTW, President and Fellows of Harvard College is not plural but singular, so back to Expos with you!) EEng (talk) 09:08, 26 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]