Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-39616879-20190528083240/@comment-5218827-20190609200607

Andrewds1021 wrote: I don't see what the huge deal is. It's not like they are preventing you from creating your own facts-only wiki. Because it's not fiction as most people understand it. Most fiction is clearly laid out as such, and written for entertainment purposes. Whether that's a simple child's book or a million-word tome, they more or less follow the same conventions. Similarly, there is a rise in fiction presented as real - see basically any "creepypasta". SCP Foundation and its splinter RPC fulfill these criteria. But they achieve that by being entertaining or suspenseful, as they both have a community that curates them into something people will enjoy.

From what I can see, a huge chunk of Fanon is literally writing fiction under the pretense that it's real, by being as least interesting as possible, and with little to no quality control. To present fiction as real through the mundane. Fanfiction can be great if you really put your back into it, do your research and remain passionate throughout, but what they'll do is describe the fanfiction rather than write it. Who wants to read the technical details of a fictional 2015 "VHS" unlikely crossover release from a production company that went bust in 1979 in the real world and mentions zero about the story? A lot, as it turns out. Now imagine 5 - 10,000 pages like these spread out over hundreds of wikis. Many of them are centred around preschooler's shows as well, so no doubt there's been thousands of confused children trying to find information about their favorite shows only to find some complete hogwash written by a 15 year old.

Self-wikis are actively discouraged and even disallowed on here, yet you can technically bend the rules by allowing many people to make their own self-contained wikis on a bigger one. This is how a Fanon wiki mainly works, and that includes the Creepypasta ones, which is something I personally enjoy. But again, wikis like those are curated. You can't just fill those up with poorly-written content.

Anyway, the only way I can see OP has any way of achieving his goal is to get his Wiki on the mobile Fandom App, as there really isn't any other way of publicizing your site outside of SEO. Marvel and GOT and all the other media giants get their inter-site promotional tabs, but for 99% of wikis this will never be an option.