Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-46227053-20200819153605

Hi!

I noticed there are a LOT of instances of staff favoritism on Fandom, especially when it comes to staff members creating duplicate wikis. For example, w:c:hoops-netflix was opened a few months after w:c:hoops20th, even if it is more expansive, but is still a duplicate wiki. However, instead of the duplicate wiki getting closed, the older one is, and the founder of the duplicate wiki is a staff member.

Another instance: w:c:cursed was closed for w:c:cursed-netflix, since the former was newer, despite being more expansive. w:c:cursed-netflix, which had staff members helping out, was the one kept open, which is the opposite of what's happening with the Hoops Wikis, except for the bit about staff member support.

I don't really think this is a coincidence, since there are lots of instances with staff members and duplicate wikis where it is unfair to non-staff members. For example, I once reported a duplicate wiki that covered the same show that a wiki I'm an administrator on does, and it was much newer and had only 2 pages, however, the founder was a councilor and due to that, the wiki was kept open, despite the older wiki on the show having 80 pages and being almost a year older.

A lot of you probably read my blog post on leaving Fandom, where I named UCP migrations as the main reason, however, it occurred to me that staff favoritism is also a huge part of why I chose to leave. 