Adoption:Tropes Wiki

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What is your username? Anime Addict

Please link to the wiki here: tropes.wikia.com

How many edits have you made on that wiki? Over 10000

How many days/months have you been editing there? Over 2 years.

On the Special Pages → Special:ListUsers when was the last time an admin edited, and who was it? -

Any other information: The wikia was closed after a "discussion" held by the then acting admin. Said admin asked it to be merged into allthetropes.wikia.com. From my knowledge, this has happened less than 30 days ago, so I hope the tropes wikia will be recoverable.

The story is rather complicated and found on the tropes.wikia's discussion page, to which unfortunately because internet problems I was not able to access in the time to give my opinion. I was an active admin and contributor on the wiki until around a year ago, when I had encountered internet problems. Since then, I had returned sporadically and observed the other admin's behaviour, which in my opinion mostly consisted in deleting articles he didn't like on unfounded and imagined fears, where other wikia would happily accept articles with such content. Since then he had joined another website, AllTheTropes, and had started to systematically change the tropes.wikia's guidelines to fit that external site's without, to my knowledge, asking tropes.wikia's userbase. Apparently since then, that site didn't pan out on an external site and was moved to wikia at allthetropes.wikia.com. Between these two events, I had confronted him on his layout, rules and other changes, and his only logical answer he could give me was "because I'm admin now, I've been while you were gone and that's how I like it". I challenged him on the deletion of the pages that were agreed to be hosted on the tropes.wikia from the domains tropertales.wikia and fetishfuel.wikia and he blatantly lied that the sysadmins deleted said wikias for content violation. I told him it was a lie and that they merged them into the tropes.wikia on my request. He did not answer my claim, instead simply telling me that things will stay as he wishes and if I don't like it, I could leave. Unfortunately, not having a viable internet connection, I could not fight these changes.

Now I see tropes.wikia redirecting to allthetropes.wikia. Though both sites have the same goal, I feel tropes.wikia, being older and more free to free speech and different ways to approach articles, as well as original articles that would not be allowed on allthetropes.wikia because the admins "don't like it and if you don't agree, you can leave", it should be left to carve out its own future. I hope being given a second chance, I'll be able to do things better, or at least hold them off at the no-censure and all-content-partaining-to-subject as I have kept it before.

I also made some light browsing on allthetropes.wikia and I notice that on supposedly imported articles from tropes.wikia, the ownership of the articles is not given, the history of the articles as both partaining from tropes.wikia and tvtropes.org is not mentioned, which I believe is against Wikia's copyright policy. I also notice the images that were on tropes.wikia were not imported and ignored, as well as many of the original contributions of articles supposedly imported from tropes.wikia are completely missing from allthetropes.wikia, which leads me to believe they have no respect for the tropes.wikia's contributions and contributors and only imported said articles to get rid of the tropes.wikia faster.