Forum:Reaching out to Mobius Encyclopaedia

I have to stress right now that this is the earliest possible planning stage of this idea. Whatever we decide here, it might not come to anything. But...

Mobius Encyclopaedia, the Archie Sonic Wiki, is one of our affiliates. However, their scope lies completely within ours, so we're also, in effect, competing with each other. This is to the detriment of both sites. ME wants to be the ultimate reference to the Archie Sonic series... and they aren't. We want to be the ultimate reference to everything relating to Sonic, including the Archie Sonic series... and we aren't either. If the two sites merged, we'd be the best without any question.

Again, I stress that I have not raised this with ME yet. This discussion is purely to determine whether there is any inclination on this site, SNN, to reach out to ME and see whether they might be interested. They might not, which is fair enough.

If we do want to reach out, we need to be prepared to negotiate. At the very least, I expect that we'll need to appoint some administrators from ME over here, and they might even want to influence policy. We're in a good position, so changes are not likely to be dramatic, but it's something to be aware of. What do people think? -- Supermorff (talk) 08:50, August 5, 2012 (UTC)

As long as M.E.'s community is okay with merging with us and we can impliment/merge things between our Wikis properly (Articles, policies, communities, etc., etc., etc.) then I, personally, think it'd actually be a pretty sweet deal for both Wikis. Everyone could potentially greatly benefit from this, and many of their Users are hard workers who're normally quite good at what they do, so this Wiki could get a fair amount of helpful hands as well, even if many of M.E.'s users would only want to work on Archie-related content (which is fine, IMO.). But if they don't want to merge with us then I'd be fine with that. Lloyd the Cat "I don't die. I just go on adventures."  09:05, August 5, 2012 (UTC)

I think it is a great idea and I have thought about it. The only problem I have with this idea is, because I have high doubts about the people on Mobius Encyclopaedia would be willing to merge their entire community together with another. That's a big change and I don't know if the people there would like it. This would require serious negotiations. Still, its a great idea.Ultrasonic9000 (talk) 10:39, August 5, 2012 (UTC)