Forum:Rules for merging?

As long as a have admin rights and the other wiki agrees to the merge, that's all I have to do, right? I know I have to use the import/export thing. I don't have to get permission from wikia, right? And I read that you cant just delete pages, what if the pages aren't needed? ~Lumina~ (talk) 19:18, August 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * Reading this help page would be a good start at merging; I believe you only need to contact the other wiki that will be merged, contacting staff would only be to redirect the wiki to the new, merged wiki and closing the unneeded one, more details can be found on the help page. -- Plasma ( Talk ) 20:37, August 16, 2012 (UTC)


 * I don't get this though. What if you have a page about the same topic but they're named different things? Like one is called Tree (Plant) and the other one is called Tree? ~Lumina~ (talk) 21:13, August 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * You must not merge two distinct pages, normally. Best thing would be to decide for one of the pages and redirect/delete the other one, or not import it at all (especially if it has the same name).--PedroM (talk) 22:07, August 16, 2012 (UTC)


 * How would that work? So I can't properly credit either pages at the same time? ~Lumina~ (talk) 22:16, August 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * Not through import, since the canonical attribution in wikis is through the version history, and you cannot merge version histories (the diff links would look like crackers).
 * If a page is (effectively) only written by one author, you can still copy-paste his text and identify him in the summary of that edit as the actual author (from __.wikia.com/wiki/____ by author "____").--PedroM (talk) 01:16, August 17, 2012 (UTC)