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	[[:Category:Ex-Wikia]] is filled with wikis, groups, and people that were once a part of the behemoth that is the commercial Wikia wiki farm (now known as Fandom), but have since left – for a variety of reasons. The most common issues which have forced communities to [[fork]] involve Wikia making decisions which harm the project, such as a long series of ad-heavy reskins. Wikia/Fandom staffers have deleted content from many individual wikis (such as [[Uncyclopedia]], where a "content warning" posted on the entire site led to a community [[fork]] in 2013).		[[:Category:Ex-Wikia]] is filled with wikis, groups, and people that were once a part of the behemoth that is the commercial Wikia wiki farm (now known as Fandom), but have since left – for a variety of reasons. The most common issues which have forced communities to [[fork]] involve Wikia making decisions which harm the project, such as a long series of ad-heavy reskins. At various times, Wikia/Fandom staffers have deleted portions of the content from many individual wikis (such as [[Uncyclopedia]], where a "content warning" posted on the entire site led to a community [[fork]] in 2013). These decisions are made not for the benefit of the community, but for the benefit of the corporation or the marketers which it servers.

	Any original Wikia wikis which remain after the move or [[:category:fork\|fork]] (known as [[:category:spoon\|"spoons"]]) would be edited or censored by staff to prevent users from mentioning that the community had left to go elsewhere. These abandoned wikis would remain as competitors to the new projects, harming that project's search engine ranking through duplicate content penalties.		Any original Wikia wikis which remain after the move or [[:category:fork\|fork]] (known as [[:category:spoon\|"spoons"]]) would be edited or censored by staff to prevent users from mentioning that the community had left to go elsewhere. These abandoned wikis would remain as competitors to the new projects, harming that project's search engine ranking through duplicate content penalties.