Sadly, I don't believe that it's a "Nintendo Franchise" as has been defined in the post you cite. However, the series has a long history on Nintendo consoles, with a good bulk of them (over 75%) being on Nintendo consoles. It may not be the most "faithful" of franchises, but it is a franchise of respectable size that is still growing. I feel it would be a shame not to include Harvest Moon/Rune Factory in NIWA.
True. If the organization decides to open up to franchises that aren't just by nintendo, but rather to include 3rd party franchises that are basically nintendo-exclusives, i think we should definitly try to get them in.
Out of curiosity, what company is priniciply responsible for the franchise?
This is a small consideration for now and not a real request, but I wanted NIWA to know early off: Yesterday I launched a Wikkii hosted website focussing on the Balloon Fight series at http://balloon.wikkii.com/.
I am interested in the series, owning two games (Balloon Fight and Balloon Kid) though I could not find any other wikis focussing on information about any other Balloon Fight games, (with the exception of ZeldaWiki with an article about Tingle's Balloon Fight DS and Wikipedia's page about Balloon Fight, which briefly mentions the series) so I decided to start my own Balloon Fight Wiki for other people to read and contribute to.
At the moment there are only 20 articles but I wanted to ask whether anybody likes the idea. Of course, in concept Balloon Fight wiki realistically would not be ready for affiliation until the later months of 2011. The articles at the moment are very short with the most informative article being Fish at 3,864 bytes.
Welcome aboard Torchic, and cool that you have started a wiki. Feel free to explore and post on these forums for any help you need. I am sure there is at least one person around here who could come up with a solution for whatever problem you have, you just got to get the wiki out there to
attract editors.
Please keep in mind, in order to be a member, you will eventually need to be independent of any wiki farm. Still, Wikkii is a good start, as they give you a lot of control over the wiki, while asking for minimal in return.
Welcome again, and i look forward to seeing the Wiki grow.