#wikia

This is to anyone currently on Fandom.

This is not me trying to persuade you to instantly quit/abandon Fandom, as I know there’s communities and friendships here, and requesting/suggesting that would be unreasonable. This is me warning you that they are queerphobic pieces of crap.

https://lgbt-pride.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000095167 (this is just one example) (if you can’t access the link/it goes to a dead wiki, here are some screenshots)

Multiple of their staff team members seem to be conveniently ignoring their own ‘no transphobia or homophobia’ rules, and are in the process of (as far as I’m aware) deleting EVERY. SINGLE. LGBT+ WIKI, under the pathetic excuses of them being ‘duplicates’, or having ‘harmful content’, or whatever bullshit they like to spew.

They go ‘oh you have the perfectly good LGBT+ wiki WE made just go THERE dummies’, but they’re PERFECTLY AWARE that that wiki only allows ‘well-known’ or ‘popular’ genders, as well as generally having extremely strict rules. They don’t care about the queer community, and we need to stop pretending they do.

Be angry. Be pissed. Be sad, be hurt. But DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT, go attack no berate them. They’ll write you off as an emotional woke teenager, and using your own personal experiences don’t fking matter to them; I see a lot of ppl do that, and I’ not insulting them in any way, but Fandom really doesn’t care when you go ‘oh no but MY gender isn’t ‘normal’ what about me don’t you relate to me’. No. They don’t. Your words do. Not. Matter. To. Them. It sucks, the world sucks, but we need to remember that some people are just full of shit.

If you have a small wiki/are working on one/hope to work on one, I’m begging you, DON’T USE FANDOM. Don’t support Fandom. Don’t support blatant queerphobes. Spread this post if you can, I beg of you. We can’t do much, but anything is better than nothing. Again, I don’t demand you instantly quit Fandom or anything, but do what you can. Try alternatives, if possible. I’m personally using Miraheze as where I’m moving my own wiki (The Invoker Trilogy wiki) to, and its coding style is pleasantly similar to Fandom’s — they even have a whole page on ‘so, you’re moving from Fandom’, lol!

Teasle's actions and contempt against Rambo can be compared to racism, due to Rambo being mistreated for his drifter and Vietnam veteran background, much like how minorities were mistreated by racists for their ethnic backgrounds.

-Rambo Fandom Wiki, Will Teasle, Trivia

Let me take you back. Back to my teen years. Back when renowned paleoartist Emily Willoughby was merely Redwall fanartist Ferahgo the Assassin.

(She's not really in this story, I'm just putting it in historical context)

Character was referred to as a polecat. Wiki included him in category: weasels. I knew polecat was another name for ferret so I pointed it out but admin insisted I was wrong because Wikipedia defined a polecat as a kind of weasel which was technically correct, but only in the sense that all Mustela species are broadly referred to as weasels and in a traditional British context which Redwall was written in, only one species is commonly called a weasel, while the others are called stoat and polecat. I explained all of this to him and even got multiple other users on my side, but he wouldn't budge and his word was law, so it stayed.

I was like "the European polecat is literally the ancestor of the domestic ferret" and he goes "there are no domestic animals in Redwall because there are no humans." R/woosh

Bitch, that proves my point!!! If there are no domestic animals, then the "ferrets" in Redwall have to be polecats by definition!!!

Someone even pointed out that even IN THE CONTEXT OF THE REDWALL SERIES ferrets are sometimes called polecats but he dismissed that on the grounds that Redwall was fictional

THIS WIKI IS ABOUT SAID FICTIONAL WORK, YOU PEDANTIC ASSHOLE!!!

I even brought up the scientific names and he goes "you can't just come to your own conclusions based on latin derivations. Science has already stated it is a weasel."

THE FUCKING SCIENTIFIC NAMES

But no, we had to bow to the superior scientific authority of the wikipedia disambiguation page 🙄

That was the extent of his research but he thought he was the last authority.

To this day, that character still isn't categorized as a ferret.

Look at this shit.

"Single species." Go fuck your mother.

Of all the dumbass bitches I have argued with on the internet, he still stands out as one of the dumbest.

One would hope, given this level of obstinate pedantry on the fucking Redwall wiki of all places, that he was like 12 or something but nope. He was in college.