Board Thread:SmashWiki Business/@comment-8-20130820204412/@comment-8-20130821173219

Megatron: If you feel that having fanon is a benefit to a wiki, then I'm sure that's something you can introduce on SSB.

On "plagiarizing", that's not a problem - there are just two things that both wikis need to remember. Firstly, that facts cannot be copyrighted, so it's fine to research on any site to get good information. And secondly, that both wikis use a free license, copying is not plagiarism as long as the license conditions are observed.

Starman: I'd point you towards Wikia communities like Halo, and Fallout. Both of which forked, and now have new and successful communities. Closing those would have prevented those people, who have chosen to use Wikia, from reviving and developing the great wikis they now have. This wiki now belongs to the new community, and the only problem is if those who have moved choose to try and disrupt it (which is obviously happening)

Toomai: that would really have been redundant, there is no need to try and re-do the past. I'll say it again: you have the right to fork, you do not have the right to control the wiki you have chosen to leave.