Board Thread:Wiki news and announcements/@comment-1585211-20131207142428/@comment-5065259-20131221040259

FINAL EFFORT!

This is the final vote results of deciding to split off-brand into a separate wiki. more will be updated later.

SUPPORT (5)
 * Nerfmaster8: for the benefit of this community and NIC, i don't see 1 wiki working from any viewpoint unless all brands can be agreed upon to be equal
 * Retaliatorsrock123: agrees with split idea, easier for others to find non nerf brand content
 * King Starscream: in agreement over portals and name change, Nerf wiki is too focused on Nerf
 * THE MAGSTRIKE GUY: wants to split non nerf from nerf wiki, use DBW as new location
 * BSim agrees with TMG

NEUTRAL (2)
 * NStrikeAgent335: doesn’t care which method
 * Blessed Sword: agrees that all the above staff members should be admins, no general opinion

OPPOSE (5)
 * JetCell: would rather have 1 wiki but is willing to have discussion regarding a split
 * GameGear360: for the most part, understands what is going on, prefers everything on 1 wiki but is willing to negotiate
 * Throws-Many-Darts: claims no bias regarding non-nerf articles, would rather have 1 wiki
 * Nerfking77: supports keeping NBW, but does not support our discussion here
 * NERF NINJA666: per above

Official Blogs (direct email quotes) 

Since the official blogs do rely to some extent on these wikis, its best to take into consideration their thoughts on this matter.

AFON (Mr.K): My thought is that there should be a wiki for each brand, but use heavy linking between the wikis

Mylastdart: Whilst Nerf has its own entity, and rightly so, I believe addressing the world of blasters as a whole is better suited to "BIC". Urban Taggers never considered themselves exclusively part of the NIC because they covered other brands amongst other reasons.

keeping Nerf/NIC is entirely up to you and those that use it as a reference point. Perhaps sub sections is more appropriate, but seems a bit unfair to other brands fans like/use.

It might be more work and admin to break it up and manage so many other pages, so if you can incorporate them into one thing why not. I think singular pages wholly dedicated to a brand will always be, but its really more about what are you trying to achieve here.

A Justin Bieber page is likely to be more indepth than an all incorporating boy/ boyband page. Unless it has the resources to cover everything extensively, then that's all a bit moot then :)

LOCAL STAFF

staff Since there is a larger support in splitting rather than merging into 1 wiki, we now still need to decide on a wiki name. the following are candidates with an additional proposed name: The following is a list of possible staff members: NONE of this is directed to be an insult, more or so constructive criticism regarding the users. Hopefully there is less bias in this list.
 * NBW: NSA verified to me his true intentions was to preserve the content after GG abandoned the wiki, only wants someone to take care of the content/build upon it
 * DBE: everything is just about set up unless the community would rather copy it over to DBW, i am making revisions to all current policies
 * Dart Blaster Wiki: seems to be getting majority of support if a split is performed, is lacking severely in content, templates, media wiki coding, overall home page needs work.
 * GameGear360: is responsible enough, a bit rusty on admin tools, good at negotiations
 * could be considered for admin or even bureaucrat
 * Nerfmaster8: leadership skills - i'm the one enforcing the rules here and getting Wikia staff/VSTF when needed, good with admin tools, connections with official blogs, knows how/where to get immediate help from (community central, VSTF, wikia staff), experienced admin on other wikis, understands what it takes to be a great admin
 * could be considered for admin or even bureaucrat
 * N-StrikeAgent335: is capable of CSS changes, currently gives out promotions a bit too easily on NBW...
 * could be considered for administrator/sysop
 * JetCell: is capable of CSS changes & Photoshop, good with templates, problems arise due to limited/no insight ability (multiple implemented ideas have failed/have been removed)
 * THE MAGSTRIKE GUY: could be considered for chat moderator and or rollback
 * 405038: while did not participate in the discussion though credit does have to be given where due. user has been helping out a lot regarding new stuff that nobody posts...
 * could be considered for rollback