Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1207741-20190829220446

Last week, User:TwistedShadowzz was promoted to bureaucrat of the Boruto wiki. The following day, TwistedShadowzz left a message on User:Sarutobii2's talk page requesting a merge of the Boruto and Naruto wikis. Merging wikis requires some procedures to be gone through before Wikia will allow it, so this topic seeks to satisfy some of those procedures.

One requirement is that the two wikis' communities be in favor of the merger:
 * On the Boruto wiki side, there is not really a community to speak of. In the last 30 days, TwistedShadowzz has been the only editor to make more than one Main space contribution; this has given him the tenth highest edit count on that wiki. Of the nine users with edit counts higher than TwistedShadowzz: three are bots; three have not edited since 2017; one has not edited since 2018; one has been blocked on the Naruto wiki for edit warring and sock puppetting; the last is User:Erik.hoary, who more frequently edits the Naruto wiki. In total, only 31 users have made a contribution to the Boruto wiki in 2019, which is roughly one user per week. Given this absence of activity and the bureaucrat's proposal of this merge, I believe this can all be interpreted as approval in favor of the merger on the the Boruto wiki side.
 * On the Naruto wiki side, any opinions in favor or against should be shared below. A merge wouldn't require that this wiki actually do anything, for reasons I'll explain in a moment. The only outcome of the merger would be that http://boruto.fandom.com redirects here, thereby giving this wiki the traffic that Google (or whichever search engine) mistakenly sends to the other wiki.

The second requirement for a merger is that content from the merging wiki be transferred to the wiki it's being merged with. This makes sense in principle, except that essentially all of the Boruto wiki's content is copied from this wiki. I'm not exaggerating. Pick any of the 200 articles on the Boruto wiki and compare it with its counterpart on this wiki: if it's a chapter or episode article, probably it's word-for-word identical; if it's a character, probably it's a copy of this wiki's version as of 2017. The most major difference is that events that happen in the Naruto series are not included on the Boruto wiki, but this only means it's a selective copy rather than original content. The other major difference is that the Naruto wiki's articles have been updated since 2017, so any new information that has come up since then or quality-of-life improvements that have been made are not present on the Boruto wiki. You can use the table below to compare this wiki's articles with the Boruto wiki's versions.

In short, although this wiki does not benefit per se from having the Boruto wiki merged with it, there aren't any downsides either.