Board Thread:Polls/@comment-36497720-20180819040528

Hi. If you didn't know, FANDOM will be changing the URL from wikia.com to fandom.com in early 2019. This would make this wiki be robloxcreepypasta.fandom.com, which — in my opinion — is terrible. There are two reasons why this is a bad idea:

1. Wikis about sensitive subjects

If you didn't know, a fandom is a fanbase of something. For example, the Roblox fandom is the fanbase of Roblox.

Cancer Wiki is an information wiki, not a fandom. This change would change Cancer Wiki's address from cancer.wikia.com to cancer.fandom.com, which would make some people think that there are fans of CANCER, which could be quite disturbing. There are more examples, if you want to look for such examples, then search the comments of this blog post.

2. Confusion

If someone searched for info about Minecraft on Google and hasn't been on FANDOM before, if they found a site called minecraft.fandom.com, they'd probably think it's a forum and wouldn't go to it. If they found a site called minecraft.wikia.com, they'd think it's an information site since "wikia" implies that it's about information.

Lots of users have attempted to protest, but so far, FANDOM are still refusing to budge.

A user of a now-closed wiki made a petition. It it gets enough invites, it'll be sent to FANDOM.

If you oppose this change, then sign.

https://www.change.org/p/wikia-inc-stop-wikia-fandom-from-changing-the-url

-FoggyAtmosphere 