Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130914215712/@comment-26975268-20130915032404

I bet I made all 24 links. :P The problem is, no one really knows the redirect's there; no one even responded when I originally suggested the idea a few days earlier.

Now. Merger. First of all, I agree that the names that we currently use for the pages are complete bollocks — it's known as "BBC" and as the "British Broadcasting Corporation" in both the real world and the DWU. There is no way that the current set-up will work.

That being said, I don't feel a merger would really work either. British Broadcasting Corporation is nearly 2,000 bytes (are kilobytes in common usage?), and BBC is over 6,000. And the real world BBC page could really do will some expansion, to be honest — it doesn't even concretely mention that it started DW!

Now I know that, if you look at huge pages like Doctor Who (51 kb), just eight doesn't look like very much at all — but at least our page on DW is very much one article that flows completely throughout all its sections.

Merging the two BBC pages would end with something like this. Note how the DWU section is considerably longer than the real world one, and how the two seem very separate and disjointed, as if they don't really belong together. And that's just it — they don't. The proposed method works just fine with articles like Tom Baker or Sean Longcroft, both of whom only each appeared in one story. The BBC has had a very prominent presence in the Doctor Who universe, which is proven just by the fact that we have more to say on the subject in BBC than in its real-world counterpart.

This is not to say I like it how it is now. We need to at the very least find better names for the two articles, or otherwise work really hard to make a merged article work. Or maybe someone will have a different, and better, idea altogether.