Forum:POLL: Spell article's merging policy

Topic
There has started a lot of work lately to order the articles about the different spells in the games. There has been talks about infoboxes, here and here, and about its naming scheme and categorization here.

However, some differences have arised regarding when to merge spells for different games into the same article, for easier sorting. Right now, we have all spells for U4-U7P2 merged into one article when equivalent spells are found. This logic is made easier as the magic system for all this game (with the possible exception of U4) is pretty similar, both in structure and in function.

However, questions have arised regarding similar spells from games with different magic systems, namely U1, U2, U3 and U9 (and perhaps UW and UW2). As Wikis are composed of a community of editors, I guess the best way to decide what to do is to vote for different options on how to arrange this, adding arguments in favor or against the choices. And after enough time has been given, go with the majority. Therefore, I'm opening this poll (and hoping that enough contributors will participate in it in order to reach a consensus.

I'll present the choices I see so far; but if anyone else has another choice besides the ones I'll list, feel free to post them and we can add them too.

Merge everything equivalent into one article
This means putting everything that is somewhat equivalent in the same article. This means, for example, merging the U1 Kill spell, with U7's Death Bolt, and U9's equivalent (if any). Any differences will be explained in the article.

Votes:

Separate by magic system
This means merging spells from similar magic systems into one article, but separate articles when the magic system is different. This is roughly how it is now, with one article for spells from U1-3, another for U4-U7P2, another for UW-UW2, and another for U9.

Votes:

Separate all spells
This means creating one different article for each spell in each game. Therefore, we would have, for the Kill spell or equivalent, as many articles as games have it in them.

Votes:

Arguments
You may only vote above, or vote and add your arguments here.--Sega381 15:22, 6 March 2011 (PST)