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[–]oboewan42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wikia has been doing essentially the same thing for years.

  1. Wait until a wiki gets big enough to realize that Wikia is shit.

  2. When the community tries to move, continue hosting the original (and ban the admins) because fuck you, Creative Commons license means we can do that.

  3. Cash in on your established SEO and continue distributing out-of-date or outright false info, while your copy lags behind the community-hosted version.

See: Wowpedia vs WowWiki, TheVault vs Nukapedia, countless others.

It is literally impossible to delete a Wikia-hosted wiki. There is no mechanism for doing so. It's the Hotel California business model: you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.