Forum:Wiki founder not responding?

I am in charge of maintaining Chopedia (sysop), and I have discovered another wiki also about chobots, with more articles and more text, yet it's unpopular. I decided to ask the founder to merge wikis. He was online the next day, but didn't respond. Can anyone please give me some tips on why is he not responding, or should I e-mail him, etc.? (I did write the message on his talk page)

Jeffwang16 17:03, July 15, 2010 (UTC)


 * You should e-mail him or use Special:Contact to get Wikia staff to prod him into a response. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 10:20 AM PST 15 Jul 2010

One more thing...
Can I just copy all the text from the other wiki and say it came from there but we're using it? I mean, I'm confused, and I need help!


 * Hi. Wikia is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license. That means you're free to use content from the other wiki so long as you attribute it to all the authors. The easiest way to do this is to add a link to the original article's history page on the talk page of the article you added the content into. Hope that helps. =) - Brandon Rhea (talk) 02:54, July 16, 2010 (UTC)


 * I'd suggest using an modified version of wikipedia and adding it to each page, as should be done for wikipedia article used on Wikia. Its far clearer than a note on the talk page, if you are using / adding a lot of pages from a nother site with a compatible license. The templates text can be modified to say article is based on article 'abc' from 'xyz wiki' and also provide a back link to the article page or the history page. Also State clearly in the edit summary (of the new article) when initially copying over. that the article is from xyz wiki (then anybody looking at page history can clearly see source). - BulldozerD11 11:23, July 16, 2010 (UTC)