User blog comment:Jack Goldwrecker./Banned/@comment-4476879-20120830000718

If someone came and started preaching on the wiki that I manage, I'd probably be tempted to go for a ban, too, though I'd probably give a warning first.

There's a phrase at Wikipedia called "Not here" and it refers to people that are "not here to build an encyclopedia." And that's what Wikia is too mostly - each Wikia is an attempt to build an encyclopedia related to the topic at hand. If I open the Encyclopedia Brittanica and I'm reading an entry about say, Marie Curie, I don't expect in the middle of reading about such-and-such scientific discovery for the text to suddenly be interrupted by a long sermon.

That said, Wikia is very inclusive, so if you want to provide information about religion, there *are* ways to do it. Forget *starting* a religious wiki - there already is one - at http://religion.wikia.com

And individual wikis for various religious faiths like http://christianity.wikia.com

But wikis not about those topics are not the place to try to preach it. It's sort of like if you were to go door-to-door - you might get somebody to listen, but it's just as possible they're going to close the door and lock it, and it's perfectly their right to do so.