Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-209674-20140225224507/@comment-5578690-20140315001343

Lily Ford wrote:Yeah, then there are, as others have mentioned, Wikia's that deal with the same subject but cater to different aspects of said subject (Toliken's Middle Earth universe is one 'fandom' so to speak that has so many different stories an histories, that you could dedicate a single or multiple Wiki's to), then there's taking into account languages that aren't dominant on English speaking Wiki's.

Yeah, duplicate wiki's that die out and multiply by the thousands are problematic, but I'm of the mind that its not an issue that requires the outright end of creating Wikia's that cater to the same subject or different aspects of that subject. i don't think anyone has a problem with wikis that are international in language or say a different perspective or a fanon. like what wikiman said above, its the excessive  number of dead duplicate wikis that becomes a problem.

perhaps rather than saying an approval process, a middle ground could be reached say a certain limit on the total number of wikis on a given topic or at least make people give a reason as to why the wiki is being created? the thing is that when the number of wikis goes past 5 or even 10 then there definitely isn't a good reason to create another yet rather its time to reduce the clutter. the only problem with setting a limit is that people would rather start over than take the time to adopt the wiki.

it does seems like staff wants to rely on a bot then have to deal with dead wikis and that low article count dead wikis don't take as much space...