User blog comment:Craiglpalmer/Introducing Fandom/@comment-1820055-20160125232808/@comment-26486243-20160126022500

'Fandom' has the connotation of saying 'the information on this site is not credible'. We're giving the benefit of the doubt that you don't know about this since as wikia admins you don't deal with end-users as much as end-users deal with each other, but this is a negative word for an information site.

Rather, it is not necessary for you to take our word for it either. View the usage statistics, which will be available to you; we can make an easily testable prediction that this will lead to a reduction of use over time of our wiki, as there is one other English language wiki, and at least 4 other wikis in general for the same game. Dumping what is in effect a 'this is not credible' tag on the header is sabotage to our efforts.

And the suggestion on our css page is not useful, because the problem isn't about our stable users taking personal offense at it, so editing our personal css makes no difference. It's about which site users will choose when they browse from google - and between our clone and us, the 'home of fandom' tag on our wiki will be damaging to us.

I should clarify that nobody is clamoring to reverse the wikia-wide change, but we are requesting an exception to the wikia-wide rule. An admin attempted to create the exception via css, but a wikia admin overruled him claiming TOS violation, so we're having issues now with our user base.