User blog comment:Roads/Important Info About the Move/@comment-20644-20120518231654

"If you leave, your things will stay on the copy and be deleted from here."

Hi all. I wanted to clarify this again, since what Roads said here is not true. Neither the wiki nor the content on it will be deleted as a result of the fork&mdash;Roads referenced that term above, so I'll define it a bit.

A wiki community that leaves Wikia doesn't so much move as it does fork, because the wiki itself remains behind and is not deleted. As you know, a fork in the road is one road that then splits off into two different directions. That's how this works. Everything comes from this wiki (the one road), but the new wiki would fork off form it like a fork in the road would.

Under the terms of the license that this wiki is copyrighted under, Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike, wikis are free to take the content and put it elsewhere (anyone is, really, so long as the terms of the license are met), and we keep the content here as well. Deletion of content here as a result of the fork will be considered vandalism, and those deletions will be reverted.

Regardless of what you may be told by others here, this is not a ploy to get you to stay on Wikia. If you would like to leave and move the content elsewhere, that is your choice and we respect that choice. Doing so is in the spirit of the Creative Commons license, but so is keeping this wiki open and its content available. Remember too that while some fan fic pages that stays behind here might not end up being edited, that doesn't mean no one is going to want to read them.

I hope that clarification helps. I'll follow this page in the event there are any questions about what I've said.