Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-898730-20150817110744/@comment-1738746-20150817114740

First: Wrong board. Second: I held off making a discussion on this as I PM'd birdzgoboom about it and am waiting on her response before taking further action...

Also, when presenting new ideas for discussion on the wiki, try not to be so biased in its presentation. For example, there's no mention that Pyralspites share many of these features yet people are fine for them to remain as one article, and likewise birdzgoboom has spoken to me about things on the article and has never once said anything against the "Dragon" bit in the name (and just for the record, she does refer to them using "dragon" name in a section of the Q&A post). The fact that through breeding, you can produce the different forms of Xenos give strong evidence to keeping them in the same article, considering other dragons with different forms can't do this and still remain as a single article (Pyralspites, Tinsels, Shimmer-scales etc). Also keep in mind that then separating them, and removing the dragon bit from the end of the name, they will essentially become a category of dragon much in the same way the DC Drakes category evolved from- this may be contraindicative to what the sprite artist has in mind for her dragon (hence why I've PM'd her).

I think Seasonal Dragons are a good article to look at when analysing the encyclopedia entry issue. Despite sharing the same affinity and adult descriptions, they've all been their own encyclopedia entry. Pyralspites, while sharing the same affinity, don't share the same adult description yet have been lodged into one encyclopedia entry. There doesn't appear to be an objective list that allows one dragon to be given its own entry over another according to a set of rules that are applied across all dragons in a consistent fashion, which is why I feel that argument doesn't hold up against Xenowyrms. Holding different elemental affinities for each form is a good argument (and probably the only solid one out of your list), however I reiterate what it means for the name "Xenowyrm" to split them and whether that's something birdzgoboom envisioned for her dragon. Failing that, I urge people to think carefully about what set of rules the wiki should use when it comes to article creation or merges and splits- at this stage, the current rule used is if the dragon shares the name, they are kept on the same article. This is why Sunrise and Sunset dragons have been given different articles- if they were for example "Sunset Sun Dragon" and "Sunrise Sun Dragon", they would be in one article under the name "Sun Dragon". If we split Xenowyrms, under what objective point do we do so and then what other articles will we have to split as a result?

For those looking at this going TL;DR, here's the full picture so far:

Support For Splitting:
 * Different elemental affinities

Support Against Splitting:
 * Shared egg description
 * Same name (Xenowyrm)
 * Ability to get any Xenowyrm when breeding them

Points Ruled Out:
 * Different sprites at all stages of growth- this is shared by other dragons using a single article
 * Different adult descriptions- this is shared by other dragons using a single article
 * Separate encyclopaedia articles for different forms- this is not consistent on the website; some have different affinities, others the same, some share adult descriptions, some don't