User blog comment:Sannse/Important Updates on Wikia’s New Look/@comment-1510118-20100928233408/@comment-1340045-20100928235740

@Pete

Humph. I don't think that they'd be able to do much with a wiki that loses its admins and bureaucrats.

In any event, going to the franchises could lead to more legal implications, which Wikia is keen to throw around to make itself look mean and scary. Such legal implications could easily get the content removed and put somewhere that doesn't have a design staff that's independent from the user base.