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'''Strong Oppose '''- The merger just won't work-it's like trying to merge this wiki with the SimCity or the MySims wiki-both of those are meant for different audiences. The solution is to just increase edits on the Freeplay wiki and just skip the merger. Timmymanest.2004 <small>—Preceding unsigned comment added by [[User:Timmymanest2004|Timmymanest2004]] ([[User talk:Timmymanest2004|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Timmymanest2004|contribs]]) 14:39, May 3, 2020 (UTC) - [[Help:Signatures|Please sign your comments with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>]]</small>
==Next steps==
It appears that a merger, with the caveat that the Freeplay admins wouldn't retain admin privileges here, has been accepted by the general community, as well as the Freeplay editors. However, I think there are other details that are in need of discussion before the merger takes place. I've messaged [[User:CoolStar1998]], the main active admin from the Freeplay wiki, to come over and help us lay the groundwork. My goal is that this process should take a matter of a couple weeks.
A few potential (relatively minor) issues spring to mind immediately. First, the Freeplay wiki may have content namespace articles that share names with existing articles here on TSW; we'd have to decide whether these articles should be merged, or whether they should be imported with a disambiguation. Second, the Freeplay wiki uses templates on their articles that are unique to their wiki, and don't match the standardized Infobox templates on our wiki; we'd have to work on adapting them for the wiki, or substituting TSW templates if possible. Third, and in a similar vein to the first issue, there may be issues of overlapping categories, and the need to work the Freeplay categories into our existing category hierarchy. Those are the main issues that immediately spring to mind, but I'm not discounting the fact that other things may come about that necessitate discussion. To be perfectly honest, I am not familiar with The Sims Freeplay or with the Freeplay wiki enough to be able to do this single-handedly; assistance from the Freeplay editors and admins would be appreciated and thoroughly welcomed.
I want to stress, especially to Thatawesomecat and Awyman13 (who has contacted me via my talk page to ask about the status of this discussion), that ''while the community has, in my judgment, consented to the merger, that doesn't mean the merger should happen immediately.'' I really want to work with CoolStar1998 and the other Freeplay editors to help integrate their content so that when the merger is completed and their content is imported, that it's as seamless and as painless a process as possible for everyone involved. There will probably be additional work to do post-merger, but I'd like to head off some of the more predictable problems before the merge, rather than after. -- '''[[User:LostInRiverview|<span style="color:navy;">LostInRiverview</span>]]<sup> [[User_talk:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">talk</font>]] · [[User_blog:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">blog</font>]] · [[Special:Contributions/LostInRiverview|<font color="green">contribs</font>]]</sup>''' 06:41, May 12, 2020 (UTC)
::No rush at all on my end, I'll leave the merge itself up to you guys. I'll keep up with what goes on. I appreciate you guys and the community here, keep up the good work! [[User:Thatawesomecat|Thatawesomecat]] ([[User talk:Thatawesomecat|talk]]) 19:38, May 13, 2020 (UTC)
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