2010/12/11 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com:
Say the projects were all renamed. Great. What's changed? Only the name on each page and likely the logo in the upper left. Will the smaller projects magically get more readers and editors and Google page rank? No.
In fact the proposers of renaming or merging want to kill the sisterprojects, see e.g. the proposal linked above. I don't think this proposal is worth discussing again, at least not here.
I participate eagerly in one of the sister projects and occasionally in the others and i don't want to kill them, but i do think that renaming is an idea worth considering. I am certain that most of the other people who think that it's a good idea don't want to kill them.