Being the instigator and recipient of the "duplicate thread with links", I think the linking worked really well. It let me see the two other areas where the topic had been talked about, and I could read each without feeling overwhelmed with the sheer volume of one big thread.
I think merging threads would make some too big, and would also make it a little more difficult to use the search function and get a positive hit (something I neglected to do before posting that thread in question). If I had put in Ruins of Warsaw mass combat in the search, I would have likely gotten hits from the Warsaw thread and the macro combat thread. If they were combined into one, depending on the title, it may be harder to get a successful hit on a search.
So, if people know that something was talked about before, I think the linking works pretty good.
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