Forum:What do you do if a Wikia site creator or Admin are making it so yourself and several other users cannot add helpful content?

I've been to quite a few different wikia pages and sometimes the Admins or site creator are kind of jerks. They will undo your edits because they like a page their way (despite several users trying to change the page to a more universally helpful method). When their main page has code errors to where Internet Explorer and Firefox won't read the page right, but Chrome will, they will ignore your comment or delete it from their talk page.

What can I, as a user, do in that situation? This isn't an isolated incident (as I said before, this has happened on a few wikia sites). I generally stop using the wiki in that case, and also quit the game since it's demoralizing. But is there anything else that can be done?Кэне _零三 17:07, May 13, 2011 (UTC)


 * You can try Special:Contact.--
 * That's incredibly frustrating, I've seen a couple of wikis that do that. Remeber that wikis are built on open content grounds, and you always have the option of importing all the pages from one wiki to another one, essentially "forking" the content - but this takes time and effort, that you probably don't want to do.
 * Wikia likes to give communities the final say in decisions like this, so some wikis do get stuck in their ways like this, if you're not wanting to fork the wiki, then it comes down to communication of your point, try and explain why changing will be better for their wiki, and hope that someone will listen  Random Time  17:15, May 13, 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm not a fan of admins forcing their views on an entire wiki, but there are times that a change has been previously discussed and rejected, thus making it justified to undo certain edits that are not necessarily bad edits, but are contradicting the previously established consensus. There are also situations that some edits might cause inconsistencies among articles or disrupt article structure and, for example, a DPL summary page. Such situations are can explain why some good edits get undone.


 * While admins shouldn't solely dictate what's going on on the wiki, they should take a stand when an agreement can't be reached, as they usually have a better idea about how the wiki is structured. Before jumping to conclusions and deciding to fork or to report via Special:Contact, it's good to get a full picture first. — Sovq 18:21, May 13, 2011 (UTC)


 * Wikia needs a better process for handling bad admins. With hundreds of thousands of wikis, this will be a growing problem and will begin to alienate much of the user base. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 13 May 2011 6:08 PM Pacific


 * I agree on that point contr, as I have been bewildered into leaving both a Wikia and the content I enjoyed due to the bad wikia management due to power-tripping Admins like this. It's very frustrating and I think in most cases a wikia admin stepping in and reminding the wiki admins "Wikias are free to edit and you cannot force your view over that of the desires of the masses" would make a huge difference. While in other cases I'm sure the Wiki admin would just say "then you take over or piss off". Кэне _零三 18:00, May 14, 2011 (UTC)


 * I also agree with Sovq that sometimes the masses are "ignorant" of the big picture, but in that case shouldn't the site creator or main admin just explain that? Even in something as simple as "There are reasons why we can't change that" instead of just blindly deleting alterations without a good excuse. Кэне _零三 18:00, May 14, 2011 (UTC)


 * One thing you can do is to create another wiki about the same subject. You'll have to start anew, but maybe it's worth it. - Tjcool007 (Talk / Contribs) 18:10, May 14, 2011 (UTC)


 * lol, looks like they might have forgotten to look at other wiki's policies too, they should see this.
 * --  nobody cares    SongpediaFamily   Band   Chat      Contribs   09:11, May 21, 2011 (UTC)