== Awareness. == 

 I've got the season 2 list of Lost Episodes in my watchlist and I look at it about four times a day, every day. 
 I often see people on the Talk page saying it should be changed into an index page with links to the individual episode pages, in the same way as South Park, Stargate SG1 and The Simpsons and I'm sure many others. 
 But I always ignore them because of the immense effort involved in making about 50 new pages. Despite the amount of time I spend on Wikipedia (And I love it, by the way) I still have a degree to study for. 

 This is the first time I've ever bothered to click on the discussion part. Now I see that there's already a page built like the episode lists for most TV shows I whole-heartedly agree with the idea of merging the two pages. 
 It looks like I'm too late for the Poll but if I had been there I would have voted to join the two. 

 I imagine there are many many others out there who watch Lost and edit Wikipedia who would agree that having them all in one long list like this is impractical. 
 The problem is awareness. 
 The only reason I bothered to click on the link is that all my friends are out tonight and there's nothing better to do. If only there was some way to raise awareness of the index page then maybe more people would vote to change it. 
 People like the status quo because there's too many different options and they often can't be bothered to research them.  

 If only we could use something more prominant than the little banner at the top of the page. 
 Most Wikipedia pages have some form of banner at the top, be it Proposed For Deletion or Cleanup or Merge This Page With [Whatever] or This Page Needs Sources. 
 To be frank, they melt into the foreground. Like roadcones or workmen's florescent jackets; they're designed to stand out but there's just so many of them that you don't even aknowledge their existence. 
 I don't know if it'd be feasible to have some other, more prominent announcement on the page that encourages you to look at the discussion, but it's worth concidering. 

 Perhaps the best way to deal with this issue is to change all the links to the long page with those to links to the index page, but leave the Discussion link in place. 
 Then if someone objects to the massive overhaul then they can go to the discussion to complain. But if they like it they will keep quiet and the page conforms to Wikipedia's standards for episode lists and then everyone's happy. 

 Just something to concider.