User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-39450671-20200330222925/@comment-1432718-20200607035823

I'm closing this thread by ruling that, no, we will not (re-)split the Master pages. There are three basic reasons.

• As the original discussions showed, and as this discussion shows, there is no easy way to name individual Master pages. Indeed, that's one of the reasons the pages were merged in the first place. There's so much disagreement among writers and fans about which Master is which, which ones are the same, what should their individual names be. I'm not going to reiterate the original arguments, but if you're interested, please focus on User:CzechOut's comments at Forum:The Master and Forum:The Master - 1 article and the general policy at Tardis:The Master.
• Obviously splitting these pages would mean a great deal of work. It's not a major factor in the decision, but it certainly doesn't help.
• And finally, one of the main reasons this split was proposed was because The Master page is extremely long and unwieldy. There is a policy-mandated solution to this, as stated at Thread:264489: clean up the page and trim each story section to just a couple of sentences per story. Currently The Master is the longest page on the wiki (as seen at Special:Longpages); a major cleanup will bring it further down the list.

As always, Tardis:You are bound by current policy, Tardis:Do not disrupt this wiki to prove a point and Thread:264489 apply. And since subtlety hasn't worked up to now, let me state outright: do not bombard my talk page with complaints about this decision.

Thanks to everyone who put in the work and participated in this thread.