Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-36579093-20190914065841

At the very heart of FANDOM itself seems to be the concept of a "fan", as being someone who is a volunteer ... a player of a videogame, or a reader of a comic series, or a watcher of a film or television series which attracts their attention and they spontaneously choose to create a Wiki about that subject. My question is, when is a fan more than just a fan? What if the founder and staff of a particular Wiki on FANDOM are also the paid staff of the franchise which is the subject of a particular fandom? While we can certainly Assume Good Faith and expect that such a FANDOM wiki will be well run and well managed, the very basic principle of a FANDOM wiki as being for and by fans gets called into question. I can't see anything about this specific situation in the Community Central Guidelines, and would like to know if such a situation would be welcomed or discouraged? 