Thread:Sakaros/@comment-1998339-20200210225524

an interesting topic that I don't think has come up before. I've been wondering about our recent influx of Discussions posters & their practice of posting fanon in the Discussions forum. Apparently Wookieepedia has been offloading them on us without our knowledge.

In the past, my usual practice for moderating Discussions is to remove all offsite links to external websites not part of the Wikia network (we've gotten some sketchy looking, spammy external links on both Discussions & the mainspace in the past, so I generally play it safe) & direct the users to the wiki mainspace. I wasn't aware that there was a Wikia app that apparently only allows for interaction on Discussions. What should we do in this case? I personally think fanon should be restricted to the mainspace. Discussions seems pretty pointless, what with the lack of features & functionality. We'd probably have to come up with a Discussions-specific set of Article Guidelines if we're going to allow fanon there. Is there a way to disable Discussions entirely? 