User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-44988386-20200701130509/@comment-44988386-20200701143645

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-44988386-20200701130509/@comment-44988386-20200701143645 Scrooge MacDuck wrote: Not that I'm married to the sister-Wiki's existence myself, but the admin decision at the end of the debate which ruled in Faction Paradox was in fact that we should keep the FP Wiki up. See here: Thread:208233. It's not just some weird holdover from before we included FP on this Wiki.

Why the FP Wiki exists: correcting a misapprehension
Essentially, it was decided that it would do no harm to have a Wiki specializing in FP as a media object, just like there exists a Sarah Jane Adventures Wiki separate from Tardis (or, to take examples in other fictional universes, a Clone Wars Wiki separate from the Star Wars Wiki, or a DuckTales Wiki separate from the Scrooge McDuck Wiki). It can be the case that a FP fan who doesn't really care about prime Doctor Who would like a page just describing "the Great Houses" as they are defined in FP lore, without having to wade through televised Time Lord lore to get there, even if no one denies that the Great Houses 'are' the Time Lords in an in-universe sense. Ah opps, must've misread the thread

Then again…
…Now all this being said, arguably, the fact that the FP Wiki has been so inactive these past years might suggest User:CzechOut misjudged the wishes of the FP fandom when he surmised that a separate FP Wiki would be good for FP fandom. Certainly, the two years of FP history since 2018 have been ones of increasing reintegrations of FP into the broader extended Whoniverse; back in the mid-2000's FP was much more trying to break through as its own franchise, whereas today it doesn't occupy a very different spot in fandom from Gallifreys or Iris Wildthymes. And the SJA Wiki, with all due respect, is a bit of a joke. Yeah, this was what I was intending. It's not that it can't have it's own wiki, it's more to do with the fact that the current one seems to have been abandoned in favor of Tardis. And I believe that there might be some info there that could be useful here.