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I personally do not merge unless asked to in this thread or unless it's screamingly obvious.
I prefer being asked, and I prefer to not do it immediately... because there is no un-merge functionality. So it's nigh on impossible to rectify a bad merge.
As for Football and this particular merge. I agreed, when Euro 2012 was proposed to be merged, that national competitions have a very different audience from league/club football and that there was no reason to merge.
So I agree... Olympic Soccer shouldn't have been merged.
I can't undo it though... so just start a new thread and hippy will not touch it (I think his post constitutes a promise to not do so).
All that said, hippy is right on one thing... it's a cycling forum.
Corny, your rant about there being many pro-cycling threads is a bit misplaced. I would be very surprised to find on a major football forum lots of threads for pro-cycling events just because they have lots of threads on football tourneys. It just doesn't work on a cycling site to say "But you do this for cycling so why can't we do it for X" (where X is something totally unrelated and of appeal to the minority cyclists). That's just broken logic.
Yeah, there's a balance to be struck. A minority love football, and a minority hate it. The majority is non-plussed and doesn't know why it's on a cycling forum but largely don't care. I'm in the majority, I'm OK so long as the bickering isn't causing me work and I'm not getting PMs to merge this into that or to micro-manage some petty squabble.
I think the balance is for it not branch out like a delta into hundreds of threads, but I see nothing at all wrong with threads for major international tournaments.
If I had such an issue I'd start merging Olympics stuff a different direction... Olympic cycling vs Olympic dumping ground. (hippy, don't do this).
Anyhow, yeah... start another thread, my apologies for the merge occurring as I didn't go out of my way to communicate to hippy the non-merging of the Euro 2012 thread which set precedent. And we'll promise not to merge international football tourneys again.