Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-91424-20180429223157/@comment-91424-20180501005134

SeanWheeler wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Nightlily wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Option 2 makes more sense, but I still think this is yet another reason why the merge doesn't make sense in the first place. Do you mean the fact that we are having a discussion about this in the first place? Believe me, I never even intended to have one; At first, when I started merging these pages, I scratched the "Storybrooke" / "Enchanted Forest" distinction; I was sure no one would want to keep that; call me naive, but I couldn't for the life of me see why anyone would even want to use it. However, the edit was reverted on the grounds that this wasn't what people agreed on, so in order to solve it, I had to put it to a vote, even if it shouldn't even be necessary for clear-cut, simple cases like this.

Anyway, so far, everyone who's voted oppose the SB/EF distinction, so unless a bunch of people suddenly barge in and tilt the balance in the other option's favor, I will fix the articles soon and get the merge for these articles done properly. No, I literally mean that it is weird to have the pages merged at all. Granny (EF) and Granny (SB) are distinct characters, same as Snow and Mary Margaret or David and Charming. It is weird to not have the pages have seperate titles, when they are distinct characters, but it is also weird to have them have seperate titles because the credited name is the same. This whole merge just has a ton of issues, and the furthur we go with it, the more issues people find. Lots of people wanted the merge, but none of them are actually dealing with all the problems that are coming from it. And on top of all that, by the time you guys actually finish doing these merges, the show will be over, so very few people will probably even be here to see the results. I just don't see the point in putting in all this effort, when many people will still be unhappy with aspects of the merge, and not many people will be regularly using the wiki. I would hardly consider the cursed counterparts as distinct characters. They are more like alter egos like Bruce Banner/Hulk, Spider-Man/Peter Parker, Bruce Wayne/Batman, Superman/Clark Kent, etc. It was why I wanted these characters to merge. It's the multiple page name thing I couldn't agree with. And the EF/SB characters with the same name just make the system look even worse. They should really just go by the names the characters used most. "Regina Mills" was more preferred than "Evil Queen," yet the system put her article under Evil Queen and Regina Mills is, well I don't know what to call those other pages since every word we use to describe them gets rejected. But if the admins really want that gimmick, fine. But it's even more pointless for the characters whose names didn't get changed by the curse to be in this system. And I am sure glad that everyone on this thread agrees to drop the parenthesis.

Sean, can you please stop blaming the admins? The article names were decided by the users, not the admins.