User blog comment:Craiglpalmer/Wikia is now Fandom powered by Wikia/@comment-26896471-20160927195839/@comment-25356303-20160928142239

@Tupka: They asked us in Community Council, yes, and our response was largely negative - they went ahead with it anyway. They won't allow decisions like this to be influenced by regular users; it was likely decided months ago by the company.

Wikia's posts on Council were to figure out how to best deal with the criticism, not to actually decide if they should rebrand based on user feedback.