Forum:Separating The Harvest Moon Wiki

Hello everyone. Would you be interested in seeing separate Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons Wikis if it resulted in working closer with developers and all the additional benefits that come along with an official partnership?

Fandom has been approached by Natsume to make the Harvest Moon Wiki an Official Wiki. More can be read about what an Official Wiki is Here. In short, with the official Wiki label, Natsume would promote the Harvest Moon Wiki for new readers and editors.

Due to the divergence of the Harvest Moon series with the Story of Seasons series, however, Natsume only wants the Wiki to focus on Harvest Moon games. As such, I would like to propose that a new Story of Seasons Wiki be created, with all associated pages copied over. Admins and other users would have the same rights on the other Wiki with the same layout and rules. The hope is then that Marvelous would then agree to a partnership with Fandom to make the new Story of Seasons Wiki an Official Wiki.

Please let me know of your thoughts below so that we discuss about this proposal. Rest assured that nothing will happen unless a consensus has been reached. --awyman13 https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/joeplayground/images/e/e5/FandomStaff.png (Talk /Work ) 04:52, August 1, 2019 (UTC)

Discussions
I think it's a great idea, there doesn't seem to be anything negative about it. Steven Bomb 17 (talk) 11:36, August 1, 2019 (UTC)

What would the wikia be like? Can you show the screen-shot? There is Story of Seasons wiki here: Clara Alexandra Djalim (talk) 12:46, August 1, 2019 (UTC)

(Replying to Clara) As they said in the message, all associated pages would be copied over and it would be run by the same people. Therefor, it would most likely be equivalent to this wiki, with the same templates and style, but the pages would be all about SoS by Marvelous and this wiki will be all about Harvest Moon (I'm unsure if this would be the original series, but definitely the newer series). Personally I'll need time to think up a reply as this decision would have many benefits and faults to it Wildheart


 * The original games and associated pages would remain on this Wiki. --awyman13 https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/joeplayground/images/e/e5/FandomStaff.png (Talk /Work ) 13:26, August 1, 2019 (UTC)

I’d like to separate the wikis as well. But I think it would be better to have bokujou games on one wiki and the original Natsume games on another. The Natsume games would be fine here but the bokujou games would be on another. Mai Is Me (talk)

After some thought I'd say the split would have some negatives and am definitely torn. It's a good idea in theory to split, but I'm overall paranoid it could go poorly.

Firstly, the team are generally dedicated to different causes, with Mai seeming to mainly focus on newer SoS games and Nix focusing on older HM games (having not even played the newer games), I feel like the two would wind up focusing on one wiki more than another. Additionally, nobody really seems to focus on or touch the Natsume HM games (many pages don't have images or information!). So I can see a bit of neglect going on, so an official status with Natsume might not make much sense. As Alex pointed out, their already is a SoS wikia that is quite inactive and lacks information, I have worries that would happen to us should we split. Additionally, Marvelous hasn't agreed to make us Official either, so we'd lack that support and protection that'd make it worth it.

For pros, (I think?) we'd be supported by the creators, meaning we'd get promotion and possibly new editors and viewers from Natsume's support. However, I don't see much more benefit besides a shiny badge? Unless I misunderstood something and being official gets us anything else? It's not like Natsume is coming out of their way to help us collect data or give needed images Wildheart

(Been awhile since I got to bust this template out, hehe. Just to get a bit of variety on the talk wall here).