Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4676581-20140411122221/@comment-1038387-20140418145932

Dan67 wrote: Lil' Miss Rarity wrote: We have adoptions for a reason. I don't see it as an abandonment but more as the founder planting the seed for a community that in hopes it will someday grow. Blank wikis are akin to blank canvases ready for someone to come along and fill it with colour.

Well, you could be right about that yet my heart cringes when I see a neglectful founder not taking up responsibility for their actions.

Not everyone has the luxury to maintain a wiki. It takes time, access to internet, access to whatever it is about... sometimes, you're stuck without one of those. Or you lose interest in the topic. Wikia can't make demands of founders that they have to maintain their wiki to the end of times, and not all wikis have enough editors to nominate a successor.