Blog:Why merging good, bad, and average wikis into one wiki will fail

There seems to be discussion of merging good, bad, and average wikis into one wiki, which will inevitably fail, and here is why: In a nutshell, it is pretty much the same logic as why the United States has not switched to the metric system. The US still uses the customary system because it would be way too expensive and time consuming to change every single street sign to have metric units rather than customary units, and many Americans are more used to using the customary system. As DarkMatterMan4500 would say, this merge has a snowball's chance in heck of ever happening.
 * 1) To address the elephant in the room, the reception wikis have been separated into good and bad for as long as the reception wikis have existed, and it is a core part of the reception wiki formula.
 * 2) People are more used to the separated wikis.
 * 3) So many pages on one wiki would clog up the wiki and could even clog up Miraheze's server space, and would cause major lagging issues.
 * 4) Way too much work. First we would have to create another wiki to merge the two or three wikis into, then file three different phabricator tasks to merge all of the pages, then we would have to scramble to add the templates to every page.
 * 5) It would not solve anything. Currently, the only problem with the separation of good and bad wikis is minor disagreements about what wiki certain works should go on. However, merging the wikis would not change that: The pages are still separated into good and bad, and instead of disagreements of what wiki a work should be on it would just end up being a disagreement on whether or not a work is bad.
 * 6) It would become too disorganized, because there would be tons of pages everywhere, and it will be harder to find something.
 * 7) In addition, many pages are separated by series, and many TV show pages have an "episodes with their own pages" section. This would completely mess up that system as now good and bad episodes would have pages, which defeats the purpose of that system. This is not just on the shows & episodes wikis, as the other wikis have pages about series, and if every single installment in the series has a page, it would defeat the purpose of having an "x with their own pages" section.