Talk:Sol Invictus: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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:According to [https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2017-03&end=2018-02&pages=Sol_(mythology)|Sol_Invictus page views], the Invictus page is more popular. I am in favor of leaving both pages as they are.--[[User:Frmorrison|Frmorrison]] ([[User talk:Frmorrison|talk]]) 16:05, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

*'''Don't merge''' The rationale isn't very compelling, and the two articles are sufficiently different. Also per [[User:Frmorrison|Frmorrison]]. [[User:Johnbod|Johnbod]] ([[User talk:Johnbod|talk]]) 20:07, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Maybe I need to keep the rationale simple: '''Sol and Sol Invictus are exactly the same subject.''' This is [[WP:MERGEREASON]] number 1; what more compelling rationale for a merge can one think of? Maybe the original rationale was complicated by the word "epithet". The epithet does not a difference make, as demonstrated in our article [[epithet]] which lists as its first example, [[Pallas Athena]], which redirects to [[Athena]].

That "the two articles are [currently] sufficiently different" is no reason against a merge. All it means is that neither of the two current articles fully describes the subject and we need to keep information from each, as is often the case with mergers.

The pageview statistics is interesting, but in no way an argument against a vote. That, among two terms, people search for one more often than for the other is natural, and obviously no reason to keep separate articles for each of them. — [[User:SebastianHelm|Sebastian]] 10:50, 8 March 2018 (UTC)