Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-36009152-20180827122410/@comment-36009152-20180904123315

Hi! Yes a good suggestion indeed, thought I’d go the extra mile and make the effort to get people involved since I’m just that good! Just to emphasize it’s not about drawing people to the wiki, it’s about making links between similar series, it’s the common ground they share that matters.

Seelentau wrote: The entire wiki could support moving "Naruto Uzumaki" to "Alfredo's Pizza" and it still wouldn't happen. There is a notable difference between renaming a wiki to something irrelevant and fostering greater links between similar wiki’s for their benefit and for Fandoms benefit. Renaming “Naruto Uzumaki” to “Alfredo’s Pizza” is a bad decision since there’s no purpose, there is no relation between them and would appear to be a hysterical joke! Affiliating Naruto and Spiritpact is a good decision to raise awareness of the series, foster greater links between them for everyone benefits with absolutely zero drawbacks from this constructive affiliation. Supporting the series and the Fandom site itself, upon which the Wiki’s are built, can’t go wrong there! You are a super-small wiki about an obscure Chinese comic that might share some thematic similarities to Naruto (or not, I haven't checked it), The affiliation should happen for all the right reasons above, I could quote them here since they covered everything if that would help? If you saw Spiritpact, which would be valuable knowledge when deciding an affiliation, you would see how appropriate it is. Spiritpact has more in common with Naruto than any of the other affiliations currently present. but isn't even published in the same magazine or has any other connection to manga. Should the manga publisher factor at all? That company own thousands of manga, do you affiliate with the thousands of unrelated manga under the same company, or do you affiliate with series that are similar in content, story, messages and so forth, never mind who publishes them? For all intents and purposes Spiritpact is a manga (though story would be more important regardless) it also has an anime. The Naruto site itself shares this view that being published in the same manga is not remotely important, Fairy Tail does not share the same Japanese or English manga publisher as Naruto, they have nothing in common there but they are still affiliated. What is more, the companies that produce the affiliated anime are completely different all together. The company that makes a manga/anime is not a factor in deciding an affiliation since they are all different, and I’m not sure a series would want to affiliate with the thousands of manga published by a few select companies anyway. you bring nothing to the table Point six? there is nothing to gain for us and most likely, there won't be anything to gain for you either. As I said, if people want to learn of new manga etc., they probably look elsewhere than the affiliations of a wiki. If you take a look at our affiliations, they're all well-known series with active communities (from what I know), your series does not even begin to compare. We all gain and lose nothing, also Naruto does not need anything brought to it. It’s not about comparing, competing and rubbing shoulder with the “best”, Naruto already does that. It has climbed the ladder to the top and is in a position where it should reach back and support its friends. Supporting similar series is nicer rather than seeking to be popular by associating with other popular things with ultimately superficial unconvincing bonds between them. Naruto does not need to gain anything, though good thing it is in this case with Spiritpact. Also let’s not look down and dismiss series that are smaller in number, or "does not even begin to compare." If you perceive something to be inferior don’t disregard or belittle it, support and empower it instead, shouldn’t you be telling me this? Spiritpact would do the same for Naruto if the roles were reversed because sticking up for your friends is the right thing to do, and that's what Naruto and Spiritpact are. There will be lots to gain for everyone, people finding out about these great series and building greater links between the wiki’s are only a start. That you haven’t heard of Spiritpact until now is a testament that the affiliation should go ahead, to share similar series for people on this site to enjoy. And last but not least, as you have noticed yourself, almost nobody cares for this. Again, this is because there's nothing in it for us and the affiliations aren't something relevant anyway. Now is the time to link with similar themed series that have tangible stuff in common to forge a good path into the future. I care because it’s a good thing for our series, anime, and the Fandom site as well. You may think it can do nothing for you, but it can do something for Spiritpact and the Fandom site. In your position I would choose to help and not only see something’s worth by what it can do for you, doesn’t that sound nicer? What are your thoughts concerning the above about not just associating with what’s popular but by what you have in common and supporting friends like Spiritpact? Affiliations are relevant; that Naruto has affiliations on the home page proves that. There are better way to draw visitors to your wiki than bothering other wikis with affiliations, really. Drawing visitors… honestly the only objective is to affiliate with similar sites to make them nicer. Past experiences show no one is bothered by a suggestion to share our great series and facilitate greater ties. It’s wonderful building links between series and finding things in common and affiliating accordingly.

Rather than not affiliate with a wiki because it doesn’t have the same manga publisher (a select few companies own the lot so that really doesn’t matter, Fairy Tail also doesn’t share one) “nothing to bring to the table” - Spiritpact has heaps, and even if it didn’t, it is a defining character trait how you treat those who can do nothing for you. That it happens to be a slightly different type of comic (well, exactly the same just a different name for the location). Rather than these non issues is it not better to support the affiliation because Naruto and Spiritpact are similar, there is a sixth affiliation section available, wiki’s should support one another and share and grow the sites and series we like? The reverse where we support smaller wiki’s is better than dismissing them. Naruto was a small series at one point too, it’s small compared to other Fandom sites but why should that stop people from liking them?

I support the affiliation as Naruto and Spiritpact share action comedy genres, they share a similar world, themes and meanings. They are based on virtually identical source material format, both have anime, and the best reason of all; love them both because they’re equally amazing! Naruto and Spiritpact are the most suitable affiliations in terms of the actual story content; Naruto literally has its soul mate in Spiritpact. Popularity, numbers, publishers?! Are scrape the bottom of the barrel reasons compared to the soul and feel of a series and what they set out to do and they must not be allowed to be obstacles to this union. Indeed they are hurdles that should be jumped, run around or pushed over.

Also support suitable anime (none more suitable than Naruto and Spiritpact) affiliating together if this medium can stand a chance at competing with the truly large wiki’s on this site (Marvel has amassed an astonishing 200,000+ pages securing it one of the most popular wiki’s by working together with relatable content… meanwhile an anime series largest is hesitant about helping other anime series… and seems reluctant to support it’s own for, for what good reasons exactly? There are none, moving forward this has got to change). We owe it to the shows we love to make more people aware of them and linking with best friend affiliates is a grander precedent to establish for all our shining futures.