[WikiEN-l] Wikias and transwiki

[SonOfYoungwood at aol.com]

A couple Final Fantasy fans have left WikiProject Final Fantasy due to our  
strict following of fictional policy and notability. A quote from  their 
private (yet public) attack of our project on one of their  talkpages:
 
"We have a policy [at the Final Fantasy Wikia] against transwikiing, which  
used to be it was "strongly discouraged" so that good, original articles could  
be written from scratch and we didn't have to look like a bunch of thieves. 
But  now I'm thinking of prohibiting it entirely just because of the way 
Wikipedia  articles are written aren't suitable for an indepth Wiki like mine."
 
Is this even allowed? Wikias are supposed to allow transwikied material in  
some manner; it's one of the whole points of Wikia. Especially when we get 
those  users who are clingy to their contributions (which is partially why these 
two  users are leaving) and leave when they get merged or deleted and rally 
among a  Wikia.



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