User blog comment:TF2/THIS BLOG IS FOR EVERY USER/@comment-1221909-20110625223350

For your first suggestion, that is not possible. First of all, Hero Factory and BIONICLE are completely different subjects. It would be too confusing for users who'd visit this "merged wiki" to figure out what was what. Two different brands can't mingle on a new wiki without someone not understanding why both independant brands are slapped together on one wiki. Its a no-brainer. And if you've been around for as long as I have, you'll come to know things like this tend not to work. If you've read the wiki's history, you would know about The Move, a massive project to move CBW and several other BIONICLE-related wikis to another platform. That project failed, and the community of CBW suffered so much strain, it was simply too much to ask for, and much too tiring. Therefore, the Move was never completed. in addition, a wiki like that would like any form of proper organization and structure, it's be extremely messy and cluttered, and the community would likely become divided over BIONICLE and Hero Factory, which counter the entire purpose of your plan. Squabbling and inward conflict is usually what tears great wikis apart, and CBW has been fortunate to avoid that.

Besides, as J97 said, this wiki has already hit the wikia spotlight and been advertised. It would be ridiculous to move at this stage, considering we've just received quite a lot of well-meaning promotion. For new members to come looking for CBW and find it anything but a state of activity, would be a dangerous place to linger. You mention this is because we need to improve relations with HF community by merging and meeting and befriending its members, but technically that's already been done. There's a solution to that; and that's the Wiki Metru Forums, where all the BIONICLE/Hero Factory-related wikis meet to discuss things about their communities. And whilst I have nothing wrong with you wanting us to reach and a strengthen relations with HF community, last time I checked, our friendships with them were pretty good, so I'm not sure its necessary to try and be so diplomatic. Many members of the CHFW HFW are also members of CBW too, so I'm pretty sure even if things do need to be improved in our alliances, then surely they can handle that to an extent. However, I won't object in any way in you trying to improve our relations, as its always good to see new members trying to reach out and bring the communities together. But a wiki merge is simply too much to ask for, for obvious reasons.

Your second idea, however, seems much more manageable and easy to carry out, and I'd say I have no objections to that idea whatsoever. There's nothing wrong with using friendship and negotiation over arguing and aggression.