User blog comment:Meighan/Best Practices & You./@comment-3466295-20110709105756/@comment-26686429-20110710114806

Wikipedia's policies are written for a much larger community than a Wikia wiki, where it's impossible to check RC for every single change, and many disputes happen daily. Every wiki on Wikia is much smaller than Wikipedia, so some of the policies probably don't scale that well.