Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24169511-20170228032123/@comment-126761-20170317200856

Hello, Kirkburn from the Fandom Community Support team here.

While we understand and respect the desire to have more freedom over the adult content you can include on your wiki, we have some advice and requests about how you continue with this split.

As the split occurs, we want to make sure that all existing users of a wiki are empowered to have a choice in the matter - for example, they may appreciate Fandom's particular social features or design, as well as our stability and search rankings. We would like to make sure they feel they have the option to stay and contribute much as they previously have.

We understand that you are planning on converting this wiki into a mainly fanon-oriented community, with the canon material going elsewhere - however, this is something we would like you to reconsider. We've no issue with you relaxing the rules on fanon content, but removing the canon material means means that people who choose to stay no longer have the content they expect. (Aside: I should note that all fanon content still needs to follow our Terms of Use, particularly around sexually explicit material.)

Given that, we have a couple of requests:
 * Please don't post notices about the new site all around the wiki, such as by mass messaging users. We would view this much like you would've if a previous user had come here and started leaving similar posts about their site.
 * It's OK to link to a blog post or other discussion (like this thread) on the main page, but that shouldn't be a permanent notice.
 * Please make sure that messaging you use is clear that people have a choice to move with you or to stay.
 * Please do not blank pages, change fundamental elements of the site, or otherwise damage the content. We would like the wiki content to generally be left intact and available for any future editors to use.

I know some articles have already been replaced with notices that they're been moved to the other wiki, and this is something we want to avoid. I understand that this approach may make it easier to make sure you've replicated all of the content - but it also means that anyone who chooses to stay here no longer has the expected content to work with.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns!