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</a></span></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Delusionism" title="Special:MyLanguage/Delusionism">Delusionism</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Delusionism" title="Delusionism"> </a></span></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Exclusionism" title="Special:MyLanguage/Exclusionism">Exclusionism</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Exclusionism" title="Exclusionism"> </a></span></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Inclusionism" title="Special:MyLanguage/Inclusionism">Inclusionism</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Inclusionism" title="Inclusionism"> </a></span></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Precisionism" title="Special:MyLanguage/Precisionism">Precisionism</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Precisionism" title="Precisionism"> </a></span></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Precision-Skeptics" title="Special:MyLanguage/Precision-Skeptics">Precision-Skeptics</a><span style="display:none"><a 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title="Special:MyLanguage/Eventualism">Eventualism</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Eventualism" title="Eventualism"> </a></span></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Immediatism" title="Special:MyLanguage/Immediatism">Immediatism</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Immediatism" title="Immediatism"> </a></span></dd> <dt>Miscellaneous</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Association_of_Antiovertranswikist_Wikimedians" title="Special:MyLanguage/Association of Antiovertranswikist Wikimedians">Antiovertranswikism</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Association_of_Antiovertranswikist_Wikimedians" title="Association of Antiovertranswikist Wikimedians"> </a></span></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Mediawikianism" title="Special:MyLanguage/Mediawikianism">Mediawikianism</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Mediawikianism" title="Mediawikianism"> </a></span></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Post-Deletionism" title="Special:MyLanguage/Post-Deletionism">Post-Deletionism</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Post-Deletionism" title="Post-Deletionism"> </a></span></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Association_of_Transwikist_Wikipedians" title="Special:MyLanguage/Association of Transwikist Wikipedians">Transwikism</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Association_of_Transwikist_Wikipedians" title="Association of Transwikist Wikipedians"> </a></span></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidynamism" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikidynamism">Wikidynamism</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Wikidynamism" title="Wikidynamism"> </a></span></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikisecessionism" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikisecessionism">Wikisecessionism</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Wikisecessionism" title="Wikisecessionism"> </a></span></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Redirectionism" title="Special:MyLanguage/Redirectionism">Redirectionism</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Redirectionism" title="Redirectionism"> </a></span></dd></dl> <div class="philosophy-footer"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Philosophy" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Philosophy">+/-</a></div> </div> <div style="font-size: 85%; margin-bottom: 1.25em;"> <div style="border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd; padding-bottom: .5em;"> <p><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span lang="en"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">English</a></span> <small>(en)</small> <b>·</b></span> <span style="white-space:nowrap"><span lang="pt"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pt:Wikip%C3%A9dia:Fusionismo" class="extiw" title="w:pt:Wikipédia:Fusionismo">português</a></span> <small>(pt)</small> <b>·</b></span> <span style="white-space:nowrap"><span lang="ru"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ru:%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC" class="extiw" title="w:ru:Википедия:Мерджизм">русский</a></span> <small>(ru)</small> <b>·</b></span> <small class="noprint plainlinks" title="Edit"><a class="external text" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Mergism/lang&action=edit"><span lang="en" dir="ltr" title="Edit">+/−</span></a></small> </p> </div></div> <p><b>Mergism</b> is the philosophy that minor topics should be merged into the relevant main article. Users who adhere to this philosophy are called <i>mergists</i> and are opposed to <i><a href="/wiki/Separatism" title="Separatism">separatists</a></i> who tend to split minor topics off into their own articles. </p><p>Mergism is grounded in the centre of the <a href="/wiki/Inclusionism" title="Inclusionism">inclusionism</a>-<a href="/wiki/Deletionism" title="Deletionism">deletionism</a> spectrum. Rather than taking to extreme sides in the quest for a better <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a>, mergists believe that while much information may warrant inclusion somewhere, very little of it probably warrants its own article. </p><p>While it is true that <a href="/wiki/Wiki_is_not_paper" class="mw-redirect" title="Wiki is not paper">Wiki is not paper</a>, and this enables it to host a vast variety of topics and information, superfluous articles containing information that could easily be merged into other articles make Wikipedia harder to navigate and more difficult to organize. Critics argue that articles can become too complex, when everything is merged into one. When there are many articles on narrow, closely related topics, such as objects in a fictional universe, each remains small and each must establish the context anew without the benefit of reference to prior discussion or simultaneous viewing of related items. Mergists maintain that while the articles may merit deletion (or redirection) the information contained therein often deserves to be preserved. This, of course, does not apply to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:patent_nonsense" class="extiw" title="w:WP:patent nonsense">patent nonsense</a> and/or gibberish, but even in the case of vanity pages, advertising and/or self-promotion there may be important information that could be preserved elsewhere while the article itself is removed. </p><p>Mergism is positively correlated with making <a href="/wiki/Help:Redirect" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Redirect">redirects</a> for neighbour (or closely related) notions and synonymical terms; see <a href="/wiki/Implicit_merger" title="Implicit merger">implicit merger</a> for expanded view of such kind of mergism. Furthermore, some mergists also believe that rampant inclusionism and deletionism are both harmful to Wikipedia and, as a whole, accomplish very little other than to muddy the water. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Association_of_Mergist_Wikipedians" data-mw-thread-id="h-Association_of_Mergist_Wikipedians"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Association_of_Mergist_Wikipedians"></span><a href="/wiki/Association_of_Mergist_Wikipedians" title="Association of Mergist Wikipedians">Association of Mergist Wikipedians</a><span data-mw-comment-end="h-Association_of_Mergist_Wikipedians"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mergism&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Association of Mergist Wikipedians"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The formal organization for Mergists is the AMW. Membership is open to anybody that wishes to add their name to the <a href="/wiki/Association_of_Mergist_Wikipedians" title="Association of Mergist Wikipedians">association's page</a>. The AMW gives Mergists a place to gather and discuss their ideas, beliefs, or anything else that may interest them. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Integration_Project" data-mw-thread-id="h-Integration_Project"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Integration_Project"></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Integration" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Wikipedia:WikiProject Integration">Integration Project</a><span data-mw-comment-end="h-Integration_Project"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mergism&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Integration Project"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In June 2006, users on English Wikipedia began a project that embraces Mergist philosophy as a focused cleanup effort. </p>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mergism&oldid=16857338">https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mergism&oldid=16857338</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories">Category</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_philosophy" title="Category:Wikipedia philosophy">Wikipedia philosophy</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 7 June 2017, at 02:06.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License</a>; additional terms may apply. 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