Forum:Deleting a Wiki

Is it possible to delete a wiki? I've seen two gaming wikis that talk about the same game; the Dead Rising Wiki and the other Dead-Rising Wiki. If you can check the main pages, it is obvious that the first DR wiki is the one that is more complete; with a skin, updated articles, media, and news, and just overall DR information that is just the most helpful. So... is it possible to delete the other DR wiki, to avoid competition? The Yoshiman 97 19:08, June 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * No. Duplicate wikis are allowed but discouraged. I'm afraid duplication alone is no reason to close. See Community_Central:Creation_policy. -- 19:14, June 17, 2010 (UTC)

I've read the article, but I still don't know what the case is. See, what happened was that one contributor to the DR Wiki was a Great, and I cannot express this enough, great contributor to the wiki, adding images and info to almost all of our articles. But then he decided to enhance one of our templates, and while it was good, most of the community didn't like it, prompting the active bureaucrat to undo those edits. Since then, he's went to another DR Wiki, which has been long abandoned, and whenever asked why he left, he won't answer. I'm thinking about suggesting a merge, but he hasn't responded to my, or any other admins messages to him. Any suggestions? The Yoshiman 97 19:46, June 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * It looks like Dead-Rising Wiki only really has like 3 users. You could ask them why they think they need a separate wiki. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 2:56 PM PST 17 Jun 2010

I would, but back then there were a lot of people that were active on the wiki, but then just left. There is really 6 users as of today; Anno1404 and David9413 are the only real users, and the other 3 were me and 2 other admins that asked why Anno1404, the contributor for whom I described above, why left our wiki. We asked why he left after contributing so much to our wiki, but he so far hasn't responded, and has just deleted our questions, which was really frustrating. If I leave a message suggesting why Anno, the bureaucrat, needs a separate wiki, I doubt that he will respond. That's why I need suggestions. The Yoshiman 97 23:31, June 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * If you have asked the user and they do not want to respond leave them to it, as wikia are a collaboration by a community. if sombody does not wish to be part of that community and choses to join a 'different team' so to speak then so be it. Attempting to get a 'rival wiki' closed is very anti wikis open community of free choice ideal. I used to edit at wikipedia but got feed up of some of the polities and high handed opinion of some admins getting in the way of content and so on, so came here, and after adding a lot of pages to a wiki the founder deleted them without even a discussion. When I attempting to discus it he claimed they dif not fir the wikis aims which in my opinion they did, as it did not say it only covered a restricted scope of the subject area. He did not really want even discus it even which i consider very rude when i pointed out the wikis front page said ALL xyz. So I started my own project instead (on a different subject). Editors come and go some add very good material others just a few lines and the occasional vandal insert rubbish but the wiki keeps growing steadily. If they wish to contribute anything that has a connection to the wiki it stays and is worked in. if its adverts they gets a warning that its not suitable in style or is against wikias rules and given a chance to update it to fit, then its deleted if they do not fix it/ discus it. The only stuff that gets deleted is empty pages, or vandalism, generally with a test edit warning issued, so it has not just been similarly deleted & they have a contact point to discuss it with. I try to be open and engage with all users who make an edit, but you cannot force users to participate.


 * The user has obviously decided to go elsewhere for whatever reason and does not want to discus it, which is their free choice, so you should move on and work at building the wiki you are on and not worry about other similar projects. users come and go just like real life were people join clubs, and some stay for ages and other drift of after a few weeks. - BulldozerD11 00:37, June 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * Wikia tends to be pretty soft about duplicate wikis, but there are some arguments to close or lock a duplicate wiki in Wikia's Closing, merging, and altering wikis part of the Creation policy:
 * All wiki projects are subject to closure or alteration if necessary...
 * Wikis which have no content, or remain inactive, or have a large overlap with another Wikia may be merged with another project, locked from editing, or closed completely.
 * If you can prove the overlap part of the argument with lots of evidence, you could make your case at Special:Contact and hope Wikia will push for answers from the bureacrat(s) of the other wiki. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 6:35 PM PST 17 Jun 2010