User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Wiki domains will be changing from wikia.com to fandom.com in early 2019/@comment-24986099-20180819211408

I think the main issue is that most wikias don't see themselves as a hub for a fandom. Wikias at heart are either;

1 - A place to go for information on creative work in media (Star Wars, Looney Tunes, Hunger Games)

2 - A place to go for information on real things (Gender, Recipes, Various Illnesses)

3 - A place to organize various things into one organized site (Ideas, Gaming Consoles, Travel)

4 - ACTUAL Fandoms (Fan-Canon collections for various shows, Role Play, dedicated discussions about the show and theories)

Labeling ALL of wikia as FANDOM just makes it awkward for the the first three options, a little less so for the first one. Although wikias for information about specific media series could be classified as a "Fandom," first and foremost for the people who go there and edit there, it's about the information and spreading that information. There's no dedicated fan articles like on fanon wikias.

Another issue that's raised is that, being an admin on a wikia myself, I find that it's fairly common for people to mistake the wikia as a place for fan articles. Every day there's someone adding non-canon and fan-created content onto the article pages which isn't allowed by the rules, and labeling all of wikia as FANDOM would probably lead to an increase in that.

A simple solution to all of this would be to let the people choose weither they want to be a WIKIA or a FANDOM.