Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-310-20190212204855/@comment-9605025-20190215005735

My understanding was that the case-by-case was for Gamepedia users who were banned for forking (which I am assuming means they copied wither a Gamepedia wiki to FANDOM or a FANDOM wiki to Gamepedia). It seemed to me that bans for other reasons were not open for special review. That being the case, Gamepedia not banning anyone for forking really is irrelevant; at least for what I intended to ask. What I mean was users you are banned on one platform for a reason other than forking but not on the other.

I saw that bit on the Gamepedia page about the deleted usernames. I would guess that was done to free-up names that hadn't been used in a while; in order to minimize the chance of name collisions. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if this merge did something similar. If we assume that there are no name collisions, then having a straight merge would decrease the number of available usernames by however many users ever registered on Gamepedia (and MCW). Sure, there is theoretically and practically no limit to the number of usernames; but given Wikia's policy of also blocking off similar usernames, each actual username actually takes up a whole range of usernames.