[WikiEN-l] Wikias and transwiki

[Ray Saintonge]

SonOfYoungwood at aol.com wrote:

>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.
>
People involved in Wikipedia would be rightfully enraged if the 
participants in a Wikia project insisted that they should have the right 
to decide something for Wikipedia.  The same should apply in reverse.  
The place to discuss this is on the facilities provided in connection 
with Final Fantasy Wikia, not on Wikipedia.

Transwikied articles are nothing more than offerings from the 
originating project where the participants are not expected to know the 
rules of the receiving project.  So while it would not be appropriate to 
block the addition of transwikied articles that are put there in good 
faith, what happens to them after that point is entirely up to the 
receiving project's rules, and that could conceivably include speedy 
deletion.

Ec