Thread:DavidTinyauNg2000/@comment-366087-20191202031049/@comment-25867149-20191202164758

Please allow me to explain our position - there's been a no-fanfiction policy on the wiki for several years that's not always been strictly enforced. The sub-wiki is a very necessary part of our clean-up effort, as some of the fanfictions on the wiki have had a lot of time and effort spent on them and are actually pretty good. We need a separate wiki to store them on that's not directly connected to the official wiki. I don't see how page view statistics should have anything to do with wanting to prevent the destruction of information. You wouldn't pulp copies of Finnegans Wake, War and Peace or Westminster Diary just because no-one reads them. You wouldn't recall all copies of Predator because the box-office turnout was disappointing. How many people go on the first few websites ever launched? I'll bet aside from the (edit: very) first it's a very low number. Maybe official wikia policy has changed in the last couple years, but I don't think that any policy or board meeting or statistic review should allow for the wilful and wanton destruction of information. This isn't a book-burning in Nazi Germany, this isn't some disreputable fake news peddling site. This is a repository of information that should be available to everyone, all the time. The VenturianTale fandom is on the wane at the moment because the channel hasn't been producing the quality of content that the fandom is used to. But there are signs that the tide is turning, and I for one think that it's completely unwarranted to delete a wiki that, though it's not being seen to at the moment, has the potential to come back into the fore later on. And if you can look me in the eye and tell me that I'm wrong about any of that, then you might as well have my Fandom account deleted right now because that is not the principles of the Wikia I remember and that's not the kind of Fandom I want to be in.