Forum:Abandoned and empty wikis

Sometimes I found an empty (with very few or zero articles) and abandoned wiki, which was months in this state. If the wiki is about a subject that could make the wiki to grow, I could put it for adoption, but there are cases where the subject maybe isn't enought relevant to have a wiki itself, so the wiki could perfectly be deleted and, if there's some content, move it to Scratchpad. Here's an example:.

What is wikia policy in this situations? keep it running forever? close it? Could we help wikia reporting such wikis using one of the contact methods (Special:Contact, ProblemReports on the wiki, or a templete similar to adoption? --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 14:55, 17 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Might be a good idea but it's not for me to decide.
 * What i want to say is that sometimes wikis could have like 10 or 20 pages max for many months after creation. It was the case of fr.3d because my main motivation "let me down"... The number of page stayed very low for almost an year. It's still very low, only 111.
 * The main reason why most wikis have trouble to grow is that even though we talk about our newly created wiki on related forums, people dont want to invest their precious time on projects that might die or that dont seems of quality. Hum... Expressing my thoughs about this in english is apperently very hard for me. So, i'll just give two exemples :
 * When i created the french Guild Wars Wikia, i posted on french Guild Wars related forum and all that i got in response was "learn english and use GuildWiki instead of wasting your time in doing copy-pasting of wiki".
 * When i created fr.3d i posted on Wings 3D forum (it one of the softwares that fr.3d is suppose to talk about) and the few french users of Wings replied things like "your wiki is so lame and you dont even know french spelling and how to say things propely". (The next week i became the official french translator of the software and that too had an impact on the wiki.)
 * Sorry for taking so much time to say what i want. I just think that we can't alway be sure that, even after 6 months, the creator of a wiki wont return.
 * But still, you're perfectly right that some wikis seems useless (like that DeviantArt wiki you pointed out). I'm glad I'm not a Wikia staff. What would be the perfectly good way to be sure that a wiki can be deleted or moved to scratch pad ?
 * In the case of the DeviantArt wiki, i would say "Yes! Delete it right away" because there's the main page, a page about DeviantArt and a page that talk about a DeviantArt user that is the creator of the wiki (this should be on his userpage).
 * Maybe wikia community could be voting on each case, if Wikia should delete it or not. But how would we inform wikia users so a lot come to the poll ? And what if they dont care ?
 * I'm not againt it at all. I often come across wikis that dont even have one page. But, the decision is always a difficult one.
 * I think that maybe too much requests gets accepted (or to easilly). But juging requests too is difficult.
 * — TulipVorlax 16:59, 17 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Our general policy is that is the topic is very obscure (like someone's role-playing game or personal book work) or generally well-covered elsewhere (like Lost, or Pokemon) we will go ahead and grant requests for the wiki to be delete.


 * It is one of our goals as a community team to get a better policy on this when we next meet up so that you, the users, understand exactly when and why we'll delete an empty wiki. --DaNASCAT 16:49, February 9, 2010 (UTC)

IMO before a wiki is deleted you should look at its potential Iwhen i started editing the alien species wiki as an anon it had over 200 articles now it has over 1,500 and itsgrowing Owen1983 18:39, February 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, Wikia always looks at the potential. Generally, it's the duplicate wikis and the wikis on extremely obscure subjects that go. Wjxhuang,  the 888th Avatar  {Talk} 07:41, February 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * I did something that is unheard of, I told a constant flamer to make his own Ghostbuster wiki and leave mine alone. Why? Cause to be honest I'd rather not deal with the guy any longer. Usually these small wikis are started by flamers and trolls, which is fine to me because it keeps them busy wasting space. As long as its not my wiki, I could care less.
 * Second reason to have floating useless wikis about the same topic.... in case a wiki is controlled by a total jerk, well go to the other and build it instead. Devilmanozzy  (Talk Page)  19:18, February 12, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, personally I think that wikis should be auto-deleted after 6 months, a year or so if they were created and not even 5 or 10 new pages with some content were created since then. A public list of suggestions for deletion (including reasoning) might be also an option, so people don't report the same thing twice or more times.


 * I just used the Special:WikiaStats function and already found more than 5 other wiki duplicates on the same (still rather unknown and minor) game's wiki I'm primarily working on, although those rarely even have a single proper edit to the main page if anything more than spaceholders... pretty much just a waste of space in my eyes, so unless all wikia managers are permanently extremely busy, some deletions can't hurt...


 * Some examples: The primary (and basically official) wiki on the subject and some pretty empty or duplicate wikis: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5  ( C rynsos Talk 13:24, February 13, 2010 (UTC)

Please delete
This seemed like the best place to put this so here it is.

I need this wiki to be deleted. I created it and now the owner of the brand wants it deleted. Can some one delete it for me?  Thomasfan Peep! Peep!   01:46, February 11, 2010 (UTC)

You can always just send a message/email to Wikia staff (http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contact) and request for them to have the Wikia deleted. Do note this will only happen if the Wikia is very empty (less than 20 pages or so and all of them in bad quality or maybe even copied content...) and entirely unactive (no edits for a few months). If you want, yuo can request for certain duplicates to be instead instant redirects to your wikias. In example, if you have a Warrior and Dragons Wikia at warriorsanddragons.wiki and someone makes a duplicate on wad.wikia it would be easier for people to find it.  Light Daxter  - User - Talk 14:13, February 13, 2010 (UTC)


 * Well, from appearances this was filled with articles until the "owner of the brand" wanted them deleted. That's another circumstance in which a wiki might be deleted. Special:Contact is the best way forward for this type of request. Wjxhuang,  the 888th Avatar  {Talk} 14:18, February 13, 2010 (UTC)