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I would like to propose merging the Brexitcast article here, into Newscast. This came to my attention as part of WikiProject Podcasts on Wikidata, where the entries linked to these pages were set to be merged since they have many identical property values such as those for BBC programme ID, web feed URL, Apple Podcasts series ID, etc., that are database constraint violations when present on more than one entry. That effort was blocked by presence of more than one linked Wikipedia article between them, thus I wanted to gauge the openness for the same merge to occur here as well.
Looking at the underlying publication systems that podcasts are built on, both articles in fact have the exact same subject, as the RSS feed URL has never changed nor has the BBC programme ID since its original creation as Electioncast, with the subsequent rebranding events to Brexitcast and later to Newscast only involved changes to the title, description and image URL tags (so that subscribers were never lost at each point). I think the content in the Brexitcast article can easily be explained as part of the chronological evolution of Newscast, and a merge would not cause any article size or weighting problems in the combined result, while offering the benefits of using the Wikidata-sourced information provided to {{Infobox podcast}} and {{Podcast platform links}} to add more information overall and lowering the barriers to consumption by interested readers.
