Forum:What are the rules for this?

I have some questions about merging wikis...

1. If you move a wiki when there are no admins on the other wiki, if they come back, do you have to give them admin rights on the new merged wiki?

Like let's say Tim adops bob's wiki, and Bob hasn't been there for almost a year. Tim merges bobs wiki to his, but bob comes back and wants admin rights. Would Tim have to give some to him?

2. What happens if you just copy and paste the other wiki on to yours? And if you did, and deleted the old wiki, what happens?


 * You aren't obligated to give anyone rights ever - it's entirely up to your decision. However, per your second question:
 * You can't just copy, paste, and delete. You have to make sure everything you copy is sourced - if you use Special:Export and Special:Import, that will be taken care of for you automatically. You also can't delete a wiki yourself, you have to ask staff via Special:Contact/close-wiki - and this isn't a case where they would delete it.

Thanks. But what happens I you DO copy, paste, and then delete the page/wiki? (Like you're an admin on both) I'm not planning on doing it, I'm just curious. If the wiki is deleted, what could they do? 209.91.107.149 02:11, August 16, 2012 (UTC)


 * A user can never delete a wiki, founder or not. A request must be sent to Special:Contact/close-wiki, and staff only complies under certain circumstances. If staff notices that someone is attempting to wipe the content from a wiki manually, even if that person founded it and is responsible for 100% of the content, that user's rights would be removed and he/she may be banned from that wiki.