Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-24203813-20160112230454

I know I'm practically beating a pile of horse bones at this point, but hear me out.

So, you've all heard the argument before, Cactus and it's PvZ 2 counterpart are too different to be merged. It's more informative and organized to separate them. However, the idea of separating them has been proposed time and time again, and is always opposed for the same two reasons:

The problem I have with this argument is that Cactus itself is not a character, and neither is any other plant. As evidenced by the game itself, each plant is a species, since there's practically an endless amount of each one. The same is true for the zombies. The problem is, the basic trio variants for each world are all different "characters", yet they're merged. The problem with this argument is that it's simply not true. I myself took the liberty of creating a user blog where I made a rough mock-up page for PvZ 2's Cactus. It's linked down below. As you look at it, you'll see it takes the information for PvZ 2's Cactus and puts it on a singular page. The only repeated information from PvZ 1's Cactus page is the etymology. That's not a problem though, since the etymology for the Player's House plants is repeated in the primal plant pages.
 * Both of them are the "same character"
 * A separate page for PvZ 2 Cactus would be redundant and just repeat information

Mock-up PvZ 2 Cactus Page: http://plantsvszombies.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Dekagamer7X9/Cactus_(PvZ_2)_Page

Additionally, new information has emerged since the last voting. Balloon Zombie's back! He was why Cactus originally existed, as Cactus would pop his Balloon, grounding him. However, Cactus is radically changed in the second game, and guess what? It no longer pops Balloon Zombie's balloon. Meaning Cactus is a completely different plant now. It doesn't even serve it's original purpose.

Now, how would we go about this? Simple, we'd make a page for PvZ 2's Cactus, something similar to my mock-up page, and it would be called Cactus (PvZ2). Cactus would be renamed to Cactus (PvZ), and the page Cactus would become a disambiguation. So it's time to vote. Have my arguments persuaded you? Likely not. But still, you can still vote on this.

 