User blog comment:Legionaire22/Writing a story/@comment-3258762-20130103203705/@comment-2031854-20130104060745

What wiki did this other guy start? Sounds... interesting. I take it he's probably the only contributor? I saw someone come by Dakka once to announce a 40k wiki here that was supposed to combine fanfiction and canon. I originally had that idea, until I realized how dumb it was and that it would just lead to massive confusion. In an ideal world, we wouldn't need to make the distinction, but too much of fanfiction is either horrific or just badly written, and isn't always going to be backward compatible with new canon. I had a similar idea originally, but I decided to make a sperate wiki for canon articles, and at the bottom I plan to have links to canon articles about the topic on the main two 40k encyclopedias and a list of links to articles on the fanfiction wiki that contain the subject (an article about space marines would have a link to articles about fanfiction space marine chapters)

I know the author of the Stardust Empire personally, and I felt bad about just throwing out his stuff. We did give him several notices, encouraged him to discuss his fluff with people on Dakka Dakka, gave him notice that it needed to become canon-friendly, and then finally gave him another month to get everything in order before starting the deletion process. Once we decided to purge it, I decided to let the Dark Emperor have his own wiki where he can do his own thing. One of the other owners of Sturmkrieg still isn't too happy about it though. I was going to see if he'd be interested in buying his own domain for it, which would also cut the association.