Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-4975807-20150427164031/@comment-5106672-20150427185504

There are a lot of things to consider in this discussion.

Pro-merging:


 * Technically speaking, we basically end up having three different "personas" for everyone who was cursed the first time: original personality, cursed personality and post-curse personality, which is a mix of the first two. For instance, post-curse Mary Margaret is basically Snow White, but on occasions she still tends to act like Mary Margaret (she's generally more confident in FTL flashbacks than she usually is in Storybrooke). But while we have three personalities rather then two, they are basically all different aspects of the same character. This becomes especially pesky with characters who were shown to return to the Enchanted Forest with the undoing of the Curse: yes, they are their FTL counterparts there, but they also retain all the experiences they had in Storybrooke.


 * We have people who were cursed the first time, but we only met after the Curse was broken (Johanna, Keith, William Smee, Prince Eric, possibly Bo Peep) so while they fall under the two pages rule, we don't have any insight on their cursed personalities, often not even their fake names. Two pages seem a bit redundant for them.


 * The second Curse didn't implant any fake memories to begin with, it just moved people away much like any regular portal.


 * The show is becoming less and less bound to the Dark Curse storyline, so we have to make a bagillion exceptions every time a new character is introduced in a different way.


 * We'd get over all the "Was Monkey!Aurora cursed?" kind of discussions.


 * Some entries for minor characters get ridiculously short, especially as the series progresses and their deeds in Storybrooke are not explored. See Tinker Bell and Bo Peep, for instance.

Against merging:


 * Naming the pages would end up being a mess.


 * Choosing images would similarly be a problem, unless we simply merge the two counterparts' images that are currently used.


 * We might risk spoilers. Like okay, now everyone and their sisters too know who's whose counterpart, but people who just started watching the show might have it spoiled that way. Graham's counterpart was revealed later than many other then-main characters' for suspance, and the mystery surrounding Dr. Whale's counterpart was a major point in his subplot.


 * Similarly, the counterpart page system helps us avoid spoilers when we apply it to people who weren't cursed but assumed different personalities. Because yeah, we saw Neal-is-Baelfire coming from down a mile, but it was a big shocker nonetheless. Same goes with August, Peter Pan and so on.