Thread:SirBlaze/@comment-28270713-20160831192136/@comment--20160901062719

Sorry for jumping in but thought I would express my own opinion about fanon content. Personally, I think the user blog category should be a lax area when up-keeping a wiki. For a few reasons being that "blogs" are meant to be an area for users to be able to express themselves without affecting the main article content. As well as in particular, fanon work seems to be a strong interest with this community, bringing users together and enjoying themselves on their blogs without ruining the accurateness of the main page content. Even on the official help page, blogs are created so users can post some of their original/creative work without interfering with a traditional wiki article on canon wikis.

A fanon wiki is not a terrible (and offers some benefits), but it all depends on how strict you want to be with allowing the community to express themselves. It's without argument that fanon is a strong interest here. So that in itself would be enough reason for me to allow it in their blogs. You can still have the best of both worlds regarding the "content" too. That's the beauty of blogs because they are completely separate.

I find it highly unlikely users would visit a wiki, see a blog that is fanon and automatically think it's part of the show. Blogs exist everywhere, and it's quite easy to infer that "User_blog:LoudHouseFan/My fanon work" is not going to be part of the series if a new user is going to stumble upon it. If there is that much of a confusion to be made, then create a template or notification somewhere stating that blogs are completely unrelated to the show.

In any case, it's of course up to the community as a whole if they want to keep fanon blogs on here, but at the end of the day, I think allowing people to express themselves without it touching the main content is not going to do the wiki dirty. In fact, it might actually bring more users together than splitting your audiences. To sum up once more, blogs do not affect the content of a wiki but instead gives the community a place to be able to express themselves.