SonOfYoungwood@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