Talk:Tail Swipe

Merge Discussion: Super Tail Swipe
Ultrasonic9000 has recently informed me of the idea of merging these two articles, "Tail Swipe" and "Super Tail Swipe", is considered a wrong move and both articles should stay separate due to slight differences in the ability. I quote his message he left on my talk page:

"I have noticed you and I have a slight disagreement about the merging of the Tail Swipe and Super Tail Swipe article. I hope therefore we with this discussion can come to a common understanding.

To make you understand my reason to keep these two articles seperate, I'll like to start from the begining: I have begun a project where I am cleaning up the articles conerning upgrades. This involves cleaning them up, add information, move information to other articles or make new articles that describes actions related to the upgrade. So, when I came to the Rhythm Badge it was natural to make an article that described the Tail Swipe and its aspects.

However, a serious article writter must never leave a stone unturned, so I decided to not only writte the Tail swipe article, but also articles about moves related to the Tail Swipe, or variants of it, as seen on other articles. However, in my brief time on this wiki I had noticed a constant: Those who tries to write everything on one article (as the Spin Attack) ends mixing together a lot of information that makes the more simpler things harder to understand or mashes together information in the wrong sections. The end result of all this is an article that is hard to understand, incorrect and misleading and most of all is wrong.

All this I'm trying to avoid and correct, since it is my reason for being on this wiki. In other words: the reason I'm against merging these articles is because trying to have all the information on one article will only make harder ot understand, more variated than what is good for it and misleading for what the article is trying to describe. For example, the Tail Swipe article is just about the Tail Swipe, no more, no less and it fits it perfectly. Then it has its alternate versions, such as the Super Tail Swipe. While it is still the basic swipe with the tail, its basics is different from the normal tail swipe, as Tails must be in Boost mode to use it and it generates a energy wave. THIS makes it the Super Tail Swipe and THE TAIL SWIPE is just a simple, unrestrained swing with the tails. With such differences, can you really call it the same attack? No you can't. they have key differences, and trying to explain this on the same article will only serve to confuse. Therefore, they must remain as seperate articles."

While he has brought up many good points, my side of this situation is different. I'd prefer to keep this ability as a single page, where we'd keep two different sections rather than keeping a redirect notice in case someone is looking for the the Super Tails Swipe. I figured this would be more convenient for everyone.

Below this are sections of support and opposition. This could go for many other ability pages too, so keep in minds there may be more than this type of merging. Should people agree with Ultra, then all ability pages will stay separated, regardless if they are similar or not. Should people agree with me, then similar ability pages should be merged with different sections on a single page, unless you have a different idea.