User blog comment:NotAnEditor/Discussion Club/@comment-UberMerge/@comment-1024726-20091020212617

Whoa........ I totally disagree with this idea (yeah, I know it's just a discussion and we're extracting reasons why we SHOULDN'T do this).

For one, the new wiki's infrasructure, like TS said, would be totally out of balance. Even though all the wikis are based on CP, their structures are very, very, different from each other. And you can't combine things with different structures.

For example, the CPW's structure revolves around canonical articles that are totally based off of the REAL GAME CLUB PENGUIN. In contrast, the CPFW's articles are more like ivy growing on a wall -- seed articles, the wall, are based off CP (the wall's foundation), but veer off reality and insert new ideas into their context. Then other articles which have almost no basis on CP (except for really vital details, like the concept of penguins being intelligent) -- the ivy -- flow from the seed articles and construct the rest of the CPFW's context.

The CPFFW is like the CPFW, except for the fact that many articles contradict others, since there is no true canon/fanon to hold them together. The CPFFW's context is just a jumble of articles, all based on CP, but with no structure whatsoever (no offense, that's just part of the analogy).

Now, imagine what would happen if you tried to throw all these structures together. It's like trying to mix oil and water. If you stir hard enough, they may combine, but eventually they will repel each other and separate. If we try to merge all the CP Wikias, each of their structures will conflict with the others' and throw the entire thing into disarray. You'd need to build distinct boundaries to show where Fanon, Fan Fiction, and Canon stand, and that's hard to do on a virtual database (aka wiki). You could try namespaces, but those are too complicated and the staff would never do every single namespace for you. You could try templates, but they don't set strong enough boundaries. You could try doing the floating logo trick, but that wouldn't be noticed at all. You could try changing the look and feel of the templates and text in different areas, but that might be difficult. In short, there's really no good way to separate Fanon, Fan Fiction, and Canon from each other other than placing them on separate wikis.