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Line 1: {{~~trope~~Useful Notes}} [[File:Lumpers and splitters.png\|frame\|link=xkcd\|Lumping and splitting lumpers and splitters. (Image by Randall Munroe)]] {{quote\| ''"It is good to have hair-splitters and lumpers." -\|[http://books.google.com/books?id{{=}}gHYTAAAAYAAJ&pg{{=}}PA105 Charles Darwin]''}} When faced with five subtly different things, would you rather see one page with a general description of all five, or five pages precisely describing one entry each? If the first, you're a Lumper. If the second, you're a Splitter. Line 8 ⟶ 9: A lumper also wants to get rid of this page, but by merging it with a bunch of other pages to create a new page called Common Wiki Wars. The way [[Troper~~\|Tropers~~]]s handle this deep philosophical divide is for splitters to write finely-distinct entries and for lumpers to write overview entries that list the "splits". We call those lumper pieces "indexes" or [[Super-Trope\|Super Tropes]] (and, on All The Tropes, prefer to put them into Categories), and each of the splits is a [[Sub-Trope]]. [[The Other Wiki]] would not appreciate this. We must never tell them. [[The Other Wiki]] calls these "[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mergism mergist]" and "[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Separatism separatist]" Which, you will note, is a split. {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Lumper Vs Splitter~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Wiki Tropes]] ▲[[Category:Lumper Vs Splitter]]