:CfD shits me to tears. It's the most clique-infested place on a very clique-infested website. The idea of independent thought and opinion is anathema there and it is never enough the CfD crew to merely refute a point, the editor with the deviant opinion has to be cut down to size as well, with maximum snarkiness. Best for my own wikimood if I just avoid it in the future and just let 'em run riot and continue to empire build. It's like standing in front of a bus anyway; you don't make any impact on the bus, you just end up flattened. As for the merge tags, given that the articles clearly meet WP:N, I don't see any problem with effectively removing them. TigerKhan didn't bother putting his case for a merge on the talk page, so there is no discussion about any proposed merge for them to point to anyway.  \