Thread:Lady Aleena/@comment-1526346-20170912122622/@comment-31999953-20170914154817

If I may have my say, while I am not officially an admin on any of the wikis listed here, I am in the process of taking over the NCIS: New Orleans wiki so I suppose I'm the next best thing.

When Lady Aleena contacted me about the merger, in the absence of an active admin, she only included the shows in the NCIS franchise and JAG, she NEVER said anything about Magnum, P.I., Murder, She Wrote or any of the others. So needless to say, I don't appreciate not being given the whole story on such a big proposal. Regardless, I was skeptical about the idea from the very beginning because NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans have no association whatsoever part from being the part of the same franchise and network (CBS) because of legal disputes between creators. There has been no crossover episodes between them, no reference to events occurring in either series and no mention of any characters apart from those on the original NCIS. So merging them would be kind of useless. It's not like the CSI shows where every series had at least one crossover event with the other two.

As for the other shows, the reference to Magnum on NCIS was a nod to Don Bellarasio's past success in television. Furthermore, the episode in which GIBBS refers to Hawaii Five-O was in 2009, over a year before the Five-0 reboot was green-lit for production. It's nothing more than a pop culture reference seen in most TV shows and movies and doesn't reflect the continuity of anything. Speaking of which, the "connection" between most of these shows is only by association with another series (e.g. NCIS to Scorpion via NCIS: Los Angeles). In other words, unless both shows directly cross-over with each other, there's no point in adding Scorpion material on the same wiki as NCIS material. Same goes for JAG and most of the others.

In regards to actors, take Criminal Minds (where I am an admin) for example. This show has spawned two spin-offs: Suspect Behavior and Beyond Borders. Both spin-offs have had actors who appeared on the original show guest star on their own show in completely different roles. In fact, in Beyond Borders, one actress appeared twice in the first season playing two individual characters. Actors will appear on many different shows but that has nothing to do with continuity or any other series. And articles on these actors and their respective characters won't necessarily be exactly the same across all wikis. The way the same information is presented will certainly vary by the writing style of that article's creator or contributor or whatever you want to call them and by the layout of the wiki itself.

Finally, something I think has been mentioned already: There would be way way WAY too much overlap of information if all these shows mentioned here were united under 1 roof, if you will. If a user is only interested in Scorpion and McGyver, for instance, but couldn't care less about the NCIS franchise or Hawaii Five-0 then there's no need to add who knows how much content to a universal wiki when they can just go and get only the info they want.

Now all that said, I do realise that this ambitious proposal was made in good faith and I admire ambition, if I'm being honest. But even just writing this post, I'm getting very confused so I can't imagine what an ordinary user would be like if this is put into practise. As for spin-offs, it's better to keep the wikis seperate except in the case of crossover events, so users don't confuse one with the other, which would be very likely to happen with this proposal. So I'm afraid I'd have to go against the merging of all these wikis. I think they should stay as they are to keep things as simple as possible for users trying to find info on their favorite FANDOMS.

Thank you.