Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-209674-20140225224507/@comment-168424-20140315013010

Love Robin wrote: I'm curious. What problem is that? How do any of these near-similar wikis, most of which are dead, dormant, stagnant, cause a problem for anyone?

Much depends on the topic and the obscurity of the topic. Some of the more obscure topics are more likely to have many duplicate wikis of poor quality, such that finding the "good" one (more than 50 pages or so) becomes difficult and you have to sift through 3 or 4 before finding it.

The real issue is that Wikia has very little motivation for doing anything because the effort to root out poor quality duplicates or even respond to requests to merge or direct users to the "good" wikis is outweighed by the lack of cost for doing nothing.