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I can not see a reason to have a separate article on legacy. Articles on people are typically not split. Inwind (talk) 21:50, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, Legacy should be merged here.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 06:43, 24 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sort of agree. Merge the main text, yes, but the film list should be kept separate, like Bruce Lee filmography. --Tbrittreid (talk) 20:48, 24 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

See 2009 discussion above. Nothing was ever done about the 2009 merge, but everything on the Audie Murphy Legacy page, with the exception of more detail about the SAMC, was a duplicate of what is on this main article. I merged the SAMC here and put a Redirect on that page. — Maile (talk) 00:30, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Per your request on the WPUS talk page. Feel free to put this wherever is most useful for you.

• It might be better to create a separate article (similar to Service summary of Douglas MacArthur) with the awards (military and civilian and maybe even the long list of movies) and then summarize it in paragraph format in the article.
• Since he was a Medal of Honor recipient you might want to glance at Kenneth Walker and see how that article is written.
• Some of the references need expanding such as 4, 17 and 41
• As this gets closer to FA I think that some of the citations will be called into question. For examples, 23 and 50 (IMBD), 63 (Flickr)
• I recommend replacing the Medal of Honor citation reference with
  • "Medal of Honor recipients". World War II (M - S). United States Army Center of Military History. June 27, 2011. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
• Move the Medal citation into the Medal of Honor action and valor awards section with the description of the action
• Drop the Other decorated combat soldiers, World War II section, its really irrelevent to the article
• Change the Portal links to be like the ones on Kenneth Walker
• Remove the Audie Murphy legacy link, it redirects back to the article
• I don't think we need all the refs in the infobox, the info in the infobox should be in the article and cited.
• Move the Audie Murphy clubs section under Other honors

Good luck with getting the article promoted. If you ask User:Hawkeye7, he may be willing to help out. He has gotten several of the other Medal of Honor recipients to FA status. 108.28.162.125 (talk) 01:11, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I have the feeling you're my old buddy "K" who is currently on a semi-rest from regular editing. I wanted to involve your opinion on this, but didn't approach you directly out of respect for your current sabbatical from WP. Thanks for chiming in, I will go directly to Hawkeye7 and see how that goes. — Maile (talk) 01:16, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your welcome and you are correct.:-) Feel free to stop by anytime. 108.28.162.125 (talk) 02:25, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]