Thread:Merrystar/@comment-14250-20140411194858

Regarding Adoption:Grojband Wiki, although it was created first in August 2012 and has the shorter URL, w:c:GrojbandShow (made Dec 2012) notably seems a lot more active, and has 446 pages compared to 262 in the one that got adopted.

Ideally a lot of overlap might've been avoided had Itsme226 applied for adoption back in 2012 rather than creating the duplicate wiki, but may have been unaware of the process.

Seeing as how ATsuperFan started creating pages on the adopted wiki on 27 June 2013, when the 2nd wiki had already been around for 6 months, they were already aware since 15 June 2013 of the alternate wiki.

As best I can tell they for some reason abandoned the first wiki edited to put content on the inactive wiki instead, rather than seeking a merger.

By comparing the versions, like the recreated Trina page versus the pre-existing version it's clear that the GBS wiki was more established and detailed than the GB wiki which got adopted.

I'm wondering if there is some way these could be consolidated. I can't help but think the adoption application was a bit evasive when it didn't even mention the other wiki on the topic so that a merger might have been done rather than duplicating the content on the older but less developed wiki.

I'm concerned about how the shorter URL is being managed because the admin has been very quick to exert power, like deleting sensible redirects like w:c:Grojband:Laney to "Laney Penn", and so forth. Pointing given names to full-named articles is very space-saving and it's kind of hostile "no, MY wiki" behaviour to delete them. 