Thread:CzechOut/@comment-1043212-20140718102017/@comment-188432-20140718192742

Yes, Dean, but in fairness those are the majority of edits that have been done on the old site in the past two days.

By your own admission you didn't have time to edit in football around the World Cup. And there aren't any other admin at the old site, according to w:c:oldfootball:Special:ListAdmins. The one other sysop hasn't edited since 2 March. So I'm not sure exactly whom you're talking about when you say "no admin from the old site currently edit on this new site". Optimuskryme doesn't currently edit on your site, either.

A huge part of the reason the merger went in the direction it did was because this site had two admin who were editing every day, and a number of people who would occasionally drop by in chat or the forums or other social areas. At the time, you appeared to have largely abandoned the wiki, and you placed no restriction upon us as to the direction of the merger.

Thus, we chose what seemed to be the direction of least difficulty, choosing to go this way because:
 * There was a more active community here.
 * This site was better developed in the direction of the World Cup 2014 teams and players, which was obviously Wikia's main concern
 * This site had much more developed CSS, JS and MediaWiki messages, which meant that the merger would be technically easier in this direction, since it would pull from fewer namespaces.
 * Your site had a number of pages that weren't even in English, and while a great number of pages here are skeletal, at least they're skeletal in the right language.
 * This site is younger than yours — by actually 7 years, not 4 — but that's precisely what proves why we went in this direction. At the time the merger was being considered, it had roughly the same number of pages as your wiki did (once the non-English and "junk" pages were subtracted from the total. In other words, this is where the growth was happening.

Admittedly, it is unusual to leave the younger wiki standing while removing an older one. But on balance there were a number of solid reasons why would work in a slightly unusual manner.

Now for a couple of other issues you've raised.

I would only say that of course there are redlinks involved in posting here. The whole reason for this merger is that you have a lot of information that this wikia doesn't have and vice versa. So when you create an article here about something you're interested in, chances are that there won't be a lot supporting articles here yet. After the merger, though, these articles will naturally be here, and the redlinks will disappear. If you want to continue writing at the other wikia until the actual merger happens, that's fine by me, because I understand how useful autosuggest is. If those articles aren't here, you're not getting autosuggestions, and so it may well take you longer to write articles than it ultimately will. Once the merger happens, though, I think you'll find it easier to write here, because the combined wiki will have that many more articles.

As for illegible text, that's not a very serious concern. Infoboxes are getting a redesign here, and there are naturally some that haven't been converted yet. It would be helpful to the process if you could note where you see illegible text so those changes can be more easily made.