Forum:Distinguishing merging terms

Recently, the difficult subject of merging pages has come up. It seems to me that in order to make a decision that would prevent future arguing over the same thing, a policy or rule should be induced regarding page merges. We have pages merging differently named things like Suppressor and Silencer, MP44 and StG-44, and M1911, but there was never a distinguished guideline for the naming of such pages. Thoughts? Suggestions? Proposals?  Shotrocket6  Talk 18:42, February 5, 2011 (UTC)