I know that Fandom Support is for a wide range of things, including taking care of blocking users who might be vandalising wikis or adding NSFW etc. and I know that you contact SOAP for significant vandalisms.

Do you contact SOAP for all vandalism blocking instances? For example — a user adds a slur or a NSFW image to a page, but since it’s only one page and a couple of edits, the local admins take care of the rollbacking easily, and fix the page up quickly. When reporting the user to be G-blocked (i assume, since NSFW is against Fandom TOS), do you report to SOAP or Fandom Support?

I’ve always reported users who add NSFW and such (breakages of Fandom TOS) to Fandom Support. But sometimes SOAP is available quicker/during times when Fandom Support is not. So do I report to SOAP for user blocking regarding vandalisms that have already been reverted — major and minor?

Also, should I be reporting NSFW in places like discussions, comments, and message walls to SOAP or Fandom Support. Or is there a preference at all?

I don’t want to be reporting to Fandom Support when I could be reporting to SOAP (which usually results in a faster response). But I also don’t want to be reporting minor or incorrect issues to SOAP if they should only be reported to Fandom Support.

Sorry for the length — just wanted to be clear.

Thanks!

I'm not entirely sure whether this is the place to ask for help, but... I'm the sole moderator of an extremely small, niche wiki, and I've had a vandal show up 4-5 days in a row now. I indefinitely block them every time, but they apparently have multiple accounts from 2020-2021 and after the 24 hour IP block, they're right back at it.

You know, replacing main article images with inappropriate things, moving pages to new titles, saying stupid things in the discussion feed, etc.

I'm not sure what to do. The writing on the wall is they're gonna keep doing it for who knows how long, and I don't want to repeat the same actions over and over and expect different results.

Any help would be appreciated! I protected a handful of important articles and images, but I obviously don't want to shut down an entire wiki because of 1 person.

The wiki adoptions page says that a person can adopt a wiki if the staff there have been inactive for a minimum of 60 days. Would it also count as inactivity if a staff member, say, was active twice in that period but only made maybe 2 replies to a post, or answered something on their message wall, or made a couple of small edits. Otherwise, they were inactive and didn’t do any moderation duties to care for the wiki.

• Would a person still be able to adopt it after 60 days or would those tiny bits of activity prevent that, even if they don’t moderate the wiki?

• Or would it be up to the discrepancy of the person reviewing the adoption request to decide?

I saw many times many users with similar names being just random and long numbers like those:

Also they don't have a message wall or a profile, and are not registered as a bot, and most of the time they vandal.

Hey everyone,

I’m hoping someone here can give me some clarity or advice.

Earlier today, I created a new wiki dedicated specifically to wrestling video games not wrestling as a whole, just the games, rosters, features, etc. The goal was to make a space just for fans of wrestling games to gather, discuss, and document titles like the 2K series and other classic titles. Not long after, the wiki was redirected to the broader “Pro Wrestling” wiki, and I received messages from one of their admins telling me I was creating a “duplicate.” Then, without any warning, I found myself globally blocked from Fandom entirely. I understand Fandom doesn’t allow direct duplicates, but my project had a narrower, more specific focus. It wasn’t trying to replace an existing wiki just build something for a niche that wasn’t being served in depth. I wasn’t given a chance to explain or revise, and the block feels extremely heavy handed, and I wasn't told the reason I was blocked either. Has anyone else experienced something like this? Is there any way to appeal a global block like this fairly, especially if you feel it was triggered by a power user defending their turf?

Thank you to whoever took their time to read and respond to this, wishing the best

- TRW

Im an active guy who always update the code section (obviously in all the limits, im a human too), whenever a new codes comes out im almost everytime the first to update that section. But honestly i see a very poor moderation there, there are many people who don't follow the rules and even if someone reports a comment that comment will not be deleted. I can even tell an episode where someone called me a sh**ty homeless whithout any reason and me and many other people reported the comment and it didn't get deleted; or even some days ago, where someone posted a discord link, not following a rule.. reported, still not deleted. There are many vandals too, who update that page and ruin all the work that me and other people do and i dont find it healthy for the community.

If a bureaucrat of a wiki that had become very active didn’t appoint any other staff members, didn’t work on the wiki themselves, and only edited or interacted with the wiki once per week or fortnight — what would happen? The wiki cannot be adopted since the bureaucrat is never completely inactive for a period of 60 days. But the bureaucrat also doesn’t appoint users as moderators and such. Yet the wiki is constantly growing due to a fairly active community. But pages can’t be deleted, files can’t be deleted, discussions can’t be moderated etc.

Will the community members just have to keep trying to look after things by themselves and contact Fandom for major vandalisms etc.?

On my wiki, in which I'm a moderator, there was recently a discussion whether to merge with another wiki (which is about the exact same topic and is therefore a duplicate wiki) or not. However, said duplicate wiki is quite dead and is quite inactive, with the last discussions post being in late 2022 and the last edit being almost 5 months ago. The content (as in the articles) are also almost identical to the content on my wiki. So in this case, merging the two wikis would not be necessary.

But the main problem is that duplicate wikis are not allowed on Fandom. If we don't merge the two wikis, there would be two wikis about the exact same topic, which would violate the rules of Fandom as stated in Help:Duplicate communities. If we do merge both the wikis, there'd be several disadvantages like content redundancy and/or clutter, inconsistent quality, and maybe even search problems (in the browser).

A further reason why we can't merge those two wikis is that my home wiki (which I've linked above) has fully finished pages, active users, and consistent edits and posts. The duplicate dead wiki on the other hand has half-finished/incomplete pages, inactive users, and inconsistent edits/posts. Clearly, merging them would most likely result in a mess.

The local bureaucrat of my home wiki and I are sorta confused about whether we should merge them or not, and what the consequences of merging an active and a dead wiki are. Also, in case we don't merge the two wikis, what's gonna happen to the duplicate one? Will it be closed by Fandom staff, or will it stay up (which may violate Fandom's no-duplicate communities rule)?

Anyways, please let me know soon and thank you in advance for answering.

Ref:

Link to the duplicate wiki: https://ofroblox-natural-disaster-survival.fandom.com/wiki/OfRoblox_Natural_Disaster_Survival_Wiki

Link to the discussion about merging: https://natural-disaster-survival.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000062990

So this wiki https://undertale.fandom.com/f has inactive admins (literally EVERYBODY) so we need somebody to adopt. But adoption requires edits and like ALL THE PAGES (i think all the pages) are restricted to having only ADMINS be able to edit, so does that mean that to adopt we dont need edits? (due to not being able to GET THEM)

Why was my wiki advertisement deleted?

A wiki specialist edited my main page and in the process of that, messed up my wiki banner that left behind a broken link, deleted my character portals, and completely edited the synopsis section.

I asked why they did this and they said they just wanted to remove the word "naked" from the synopsis to make it more appropriate. They did more than that. Why delete the character portals?

Aren't wiki specialists supposed to help? It's not a big deal since I can just undo the edits...but I found that weird. I also didn't feel like the word "naked' was used in an inappropriate way. It was said in a general/non descriptive way.

Hey together :)

We just created a second wiki, we want to translate and then request interlanguage link, to link them. We know there isn't another wiki out there, so that won't be a problem. (Yes, there isn't a design applied now, except "blank")

We thought it would be easier for maintenance, to keep the same structure and use the Export and Import function, then get to work and translate it.

So.... with Displaytitle, it's easy to translate "Advanced Gold Mine" into "Fortgeschrittene Goldmine" in german. And: languagelinks would look like: [[de:{{PAGENAME}}]] - so it would be quite easy.

My Question:

Is there a way, to rename the small backlink - except changing the "Main-Page"?

Hello!

I believe my wiki was falsely closed. I have

contacted the staff but haven't got any response in the last 5 days.

Any tips?

Hopefully this is the right place for this: I'm looking through the Admin+ pages, but clicking the typeform link redirects me to the site's homepage.

I had a wiki that I didn't work on for a few weeks, and now it says that the wiki is closed and that I can't access it. Is there anyway I can get my wiki back?

This page outlines fandom’s general policy on blocks based off external platform occurrences. But I was wondering if these kinds of rules applied in which a moderator in a community was demoted for behavior on an external platform?

Non-guideline breaking nor illegal behavior, for that matter. Help?