::"I really think you should consider what is achieved by keeping these articles separate". Well, what would we achive by merging them? As it currently stands, we have separate articles. As Secondarywaltz says, Wikipedia isn't a paper encyclopedia, there's no reason that means the articles need to be merged. 

 ::"if I could offer my suggestion - since any effort to create a consolidate article keep getting abruptly reverted". Hmm, I'd be inclined to say it was more of a case of "since my abrupt efforts to create one article (without consensus), got reverted". /