User blog comment:Emitewiki2/Combining enemy pages/@comment-4628859-20150828180138

You knew I would be here, didn't you (^o^)? At the start of this blog post, you reminded me of Frosty. I would like to state as an aside that page count is like the wikia achievement function: Shows a record of what has been done, but not the quality that makes it up. Unsurprisingly, I don't consider page count of any pivotal importance.

Anyway, for the pages you suggested both jumping octopuses and emperor penguins are in need of revision and should be rewritten; the Sniper (Final Ninja) article should be done away with and instead keep the two separate pages; Gundisks is incomplete and shouldn't be considered (I'll get to that point below); and Locusts (Off The Rails) and Handle robots articles look fine to me but may need a partial rewritting to join sentences.

Now the reason why I said Gundisks cannot be considered is because it is not complete. You wrote "If you actually analyze it, it's just a small amount of information strung out to make the page look larger.", but the main section of Gundisks is not written so it is undetermined whether when the section is eventually written if that will be the case. For articles like these, the main problem with them is not the content but rather the lack of it, which is not what we are discussing (and even if that is the case, I doubt a merger to a single article would improve productivity).

Also to that aforementioned statement you added, "Many pages are like this.", with the question now being: How many pages are like that which cannot be perfected due to rewriting? This wiki is very large due to an accumulation of pages being created, some of which users have created impartially or out of inexperience. For example, when I was younger, and I believe you have listed some articles I have written, I was unaware of joining sentences together to condense material. Now I know how to do this and many articles I have created, and other articles as well, need to be rewritten. Yes, several pages have their length attributed to not condensed structure, but I believe many would be significantly improved if they were rewritten. Evidently, that is why we had Project Revise (I could make some cynical comments here about that and attempts at resurrecting it, but hey, I'm an optimist).

The reason I believe we have lists was firstly because objects were closely related to each other, and secondly because the page content was too small in individual articles. For all three pages you presented, this belief is consistent as Enemies (Fluffball) and Enemies (Avalanche) can basically tell no more than a single action done by the subjects.

Now I feel like we should do both main pages and lists. The reason for this is because some pages require a list because they are so closely related, as I have said, while others are large enough to sensibly be their own article. I still believe having lists articles for similar related objects from different game, like flies, are still functional and beneficial for these objects are related, albeit they are not exactly the same.

I would like to propose some formatting options, if we do end up going ahead with this plan, but I will put it in a spoiler template to be dealt with after.

I also realize that if this proposal is to go ahead, little could be said to prevent the decision to merge all component pages into a list, and also for such changes to effect some of the sister wikis. Of course, I know for some component articles that would not go forward due to their lengths and distinctive qualities. I hope this doesn't happen partially because I personally like and have gotten used to the current format, and factually articles of unique concepts are understandably given separate pages.