Talk:Inter-collegiate policy debate

Is there any reason that this article is seperate from the entry for 'Policy Debate'?

This is just a less comprehensive version of the other article, perhaps we could add the information that's specific to college debate to the 'Policy Debate' article under a more comprehensive section entitled 'Inter-Collegiate policy debate'?

• I agree, this entry should be merged with Policy Debate. There's no new or special information here. Hollyvic 14:44, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

• I disagree. I admitt that as is it is slightly repetitive, but the policy debate article is getting too long and we are looking for ways to branch out. Masterdebater 04:43, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Branching out is great, but is there any information here that is specific to the Inter-Collegiate case? If not, as Hollyvic asserts, then there is no reason to keep this article. Melchoir 20:09, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

thinning it down

I'm going to try to remove from this article redundancies - information that's in both this article and the main Policy debate article. Which appears to be most of it. This should also take care of the copyright violation, if it's real, so I'll get rid of that notice. Kalkin

Ok, done. I've replaced pretty much the entire article. The only thing I found worth saving (nonredundant) from the earlier article was the paragraph on speaker points. Speaker points had not been discussed in the main article; I've now transferred a cut-down version of that paragraph to the "Judging" subsection of the main article and an expanded version to the seperate Judge (policy debate). I took slightly-modified versions of the descriptions of leagues and championship tournaments from the main article and put them in a "Governing organizations" section; I wrote a summary "Format" section from scraps, and a "Versus high school" section from scratch. The last should maybe be expanded; having something like that seems to me to be the only legitimate purpose for having a seperate inter-collegiate article. 1/18/06 Kalkin

Also, I'm not really sure what this: However, recently most of these leagues have been combined into one, and the distinctions are minimal. is talking about. There are still seperate national tournaments. But then, I don't know much about the leagues. So I moved the statement into a position where at least it makes sense; I have no idea if it's accurate. Kalkin 07:28, 26 January 2006 (UTC)