Blog:Regarding the Music Wikis

I have set Delightful Music and Songs Wiki and Worst Music and Songs Wiki to private firstly because they are both in severe violation of the Miraheze Content Policy.
 * I have directly researched WM&S and discovered approximately half its content is duplicate without attribution or permission from Horrible Music & Songs Wiki.
 * TigerBlazer has researched DM&S and right off the bat in the first odd dozen he reported to me, virtually no pages were original, and from the looks of it most of the wiki is duplicated without attribution or permission from Best Music & Songs Wiki.

As a Qualitipedia bureaucrat responsible for the wikis as well as a wider responsibility to uphold the policies of Miraheze, this alone is enough for closure.

Secondarily however, the wikis are critically underdeveloped, have been utterly ignored by most of the users who posted in their defense from the closure RfC, and have a systemic inability to provide reception in a way that is acceptable for where Qualitipedia is trying to go (vaguely authoritative, with sources and stronger pointers). In part I stake my bureaucracy on the discretion to close them as a combination of the above objective issues and the secondary failure of the wikis to provide meaningful value of any kind to the network.

In sum I post an ultimatum. The wikis are made private until the issues are addressed. Anyone willing to address them is free to request rights so they can compare pages and remove the ones that are duplicate. If all duplication is addressed, then the users most responsible for fixing it may become the new local admins, and possibly the new managers altogether. In the meantime the wikis are informally ejected from the network, and as such have been removed from the list of wikis. Qualitipedia bureaucrats may contribute to fixing at their discretion, but for my part I will only give users the rights they need to fix the problem themselves if they really believe that a pair of ripped-off wikis can add value to the platform. Anyone else I encourage to visit the original wikis linked above as they have essentially the same content, a wider range of tolerance than Qualtipedia, and infinitely more content. If or when they are fixed, a RfC will be created to again decide on their membership as part of the Qualitipedia network.

Requests including the above and transferring sandbox contents to wherever you wish such as here on QP central for backup (ie, if you were recently working on them) will be taken here, preferably on the talk page.