User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-44988386-20200701130509/@comment-6032121-20200701134914

Not that I'm married to the sister-Wiki's existence myself, but the admin decision at the end of the debate which ruled in Faction Paradox was in fact that we should keep the FP Wiki up. See here: Thread:208233. It's not just some weird holdover from before we included FP on this Wiki.

Why the FP Wiki exists: correcting a misapprehension
Essentially, it was decided that it would do no harm to have a Wiki specializing in FP as a media object, just like there exists a Sarah Jane Adventures Wiki separate from Tardis (or, to take examples in other fictional universes, a Clone Wars Wiki separate from the Star Wars Wiki, or a DuckTales Wiki separate from the Scrooge McDuck Wiki). It can be the case that a FP fan who doesn't really care about prime Doctor Who would like a page just describing "the Great Houses" as they are defined in FP lore, without having to wade through televised Time Lord lore to get there, even if no one denies that the Great Houses 'are' the Time Lords in an in-universe sense.

Additionally, there were concerns that it would be an unnecessary hassle for our already-overworked admin team to perform all the merges preserving edit history, as, for complicated coding reasons, this would all have to be done by hand.

Then again…
…Now all this being said, arguably, the fact that the FP Wiki has been so inactive these past years might suggest User:CzechOut misjudged the wishes of the FP fandom when he surmised that a separate FP Wiki would be good for FP fandom. Certainly, the two years of FP history since 2018 have been ones of increasing reintegrations of FP into the broader extended Whoniverse; back in the mid-2000's FP was much more trying to break through as its own franchise, whereas today it doesn't occupy a very different spot in fandom from Gallifreys or Iris Wildthymes. And the SJA Wiki, with all due respect, is a bit of a joke.

Conclusion
So maybe, if that is the wish of the FP fandom, it would be time to reconsider the viability of a merge between the FP Wiki and this one. Maybe. But IMO, it could only be a new discussion all of its own, based on new evidence — not a simple matter of "cleaning up the past".'

EDIT: But see my message later for a stronger reason not to merge the Wikis.