Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-209674-20140225224507/@comment-896291-20140314235655

Lil' Miss Rarity wrote: DEmersonJMFM wrote: While I don't support duplicate wikis, dealing with their cleanup if they were no longer allowed would be a nightmare situation. Additionally, the original wiki is not always the "best" one. Quite often the case.

Yeah, then there are, as others have mentioned, Wikia's that deal with the same subject but cater to different aspects of said subject (Toliken's Middle Earth universe is one 'fandom' so to speak that has so many different stories an histories, that you could dedicate a single or multiple Wiki's to), then there's taking into account languages that aren't dominant on English speaking Wiki's.

For instance, I'm an admin of a Sailor Moon Wiki that caters exclusively to the original four English dubs and its content produced for North America, while the better known Sailor Moon Wiki caters almost exclusively to the Japanese Adaptation (the anime) and the original manga. There are enough differences between the two that you can dedicate two wikia's to it (and honestly, the Sailor Moon Wiki's attitude toward the English dub is less than friendly, so its not exactly a comfortable place to be).

Yeah, duplicate wiki's that die out and multiply by the thousands are problematic, but I'm of the mind that its not an issue that requires the outright end of creating Wikia's that cater to the same subject or different aspects of that subject.