Thread:Sgt D Grif/@comment-24012109-20150413041111/@comment-4403232-20150413202326

Like I've said before, there's been an unfortunately long history of disagreements and conflict. The simplest way to put it is that "it just isn't working". The best thing for each wiki to do is proceed properly as they see fit. If we just give you a list of "This is what we don't like", it would either open arguments over whether those things are right or not (as it stands right now there seems to be plenty of people with heated opinions), or pressure the RWBY Fanon Wiki to make changes solely on OUR accord and not the best interests of your wiki and community. For a short answer, as a whole, we haven't been really working well together, there isn't great cooperation, and unfortunately the affiliation was leading to more conflict than comradery. We just haven't been really meeting the definition of good affiliated wikis, and just had each other listed because it's been like that since the RWBY Fanon Wiki was started back when Chaos and his "siblings" ran both places. We went from being run by the same person/people to suddenly having far less communication off the bat, and naturally drew apart to a degree. It was essentially like someone going "Alright, you two are best friends, go play" to two people who don't know each other. Our communities weren't involved in affiliation in the first place, all any of us have done regarding it is when we changed our "Go visit the RWBY Wiki/RWBY Fanon Wiki" sections of our homepages to read "Affiliated Wikis" when we started adding other wikis. We grew accustomed to having that affiliation between us despite never discussing if we wanted it or why we had it in the first place. Now the call by many is to go back to an old status quo that really wasn't set up by us in the first place, and wasn't really working the way it had been.

In my opinion, the best thing to do is wait for all of the dust to settle, and then see how relations go between the wikis without concerns of maintaining the affiliation proceed. As it stands right now, the only tangible difference is that there isn't an icon on the homepage, and that staff on both ends don't need to press as hardly into each other's conduct and actions. Then we can have one of three outcomes: 1) Things naturally improve on their own. 2) Things settle down, the dust settles, and we come up with a way to have a controlled conversation that doesn't explode into a three-ring-circus. Or 3) We decide that the affiliation really isn't everyone's best interests after time has passed, and we continue along respectful of each other without butting heads or interfering with each other.