User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130129081336/@comment-26975268-20130328024224

Tangerineduel wrote: I just thought I'd note that while merging the articles isn't too difficult there is a process through which it is done. And I've kinda become the admin who does a majority of the wiki's mergers.

I'm saying this as in order to do an effective merge I'd need to lock all the Clara pages during the merger to prevent people making edits as there's a few Clara pages to merge it's sort of a Russian doll sort of maneuver (to merge one page is moved to the other and then restored so to merge the articles that'll need to be done a few times) one page into another, then that one into the next etc.

So, if we want a single article then we need to decide before TBOSJ or a few days after TBOSJ has been broadcast as I won't be able to do it immediately after it's been broadcast as there'll be too many editors on here to do it effectively.

You really should write new messages separately, rather than just editing old messages — I would never have noticed this. I just happened to be reading through.

Anyways, I think this should be done before Bells, so that editors know where to go. Honestly, we need to decide what we're doing immediately: either we're merging, or we're creating one central page with basal information and links to the separate incarnations. We need to reach some sort of conclusion, or otherwise just do whatever's more convenient. As I've said above, we need to make sure that editors and readers know exactly where to go when looking for the different Claras. Be it one page or a dab-like page linking to the different pages, it needs to be crystal-clear before Saturday.