User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130129081336/@comment-188432-20130404165748

Isn't your solution just to leave things split until the end of the series? That's unacceptable to me, because it means that we'll just be allowing the number of links to grow in the meantime. That's just more work to clean up later. It won't ever be, strictly speaking, wrong for links to be to the gestalt page, even if we later have to recreate individual pages. You'll still end up on a page that will be relevant and have links to a more specific page.

However, the opposite isn't true. If we have to recombine the pages (and yes, it's worth reminding everyone that it would be a re-combination; this page was split against site policy) then it will be wrong to have links the way they currently are.

Again, from a purely technical standpoint, it's obviously more work to continue with these three pages—and be wrong—than it is to continue with one page and be wrong.

And, of course, even if the multiple articles are justified, there's every chance that at least one of them is at the wrong name. And that will take work to rectify.