Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20181006145901/@comment-9782468-20181006182742

FishTank wrote: Fandom and Fanon are not the same thing. 😀 Calling it "fandom" puts emphasis on the fans who edit the site.

Calling it Wikia puts emphasis on the information presented.

Basically, when people see "fandom," they think of the fans of the series. They don't think "reliable source of info" in the same way they would wikia.

In fact, that's how I saw it when I first browsed any wiki at all (the DC Comics wiki). I saw "wiki" and "wikia" and thought, "oh. This is a good site to get info on the DC Comics universe. Not just some fan site"