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* [[Censorship Bureau]]: The Wikia staff routinely censor info about splits from old wikis to prevent users from finding the new project.
* [[Content Warnings]]: Especially the spoiler warnings.
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Wikia's sneaky fine print, by which they contract themselves out of the "non-commercial" terms of various Creative Commons licences for existing communities, such as [[Star Trek|Memory Alpha]].
** The backroom deals by which they have the one individual who controls the domain name for an existing wiki sell it, agree to delete data, agree not to speak out publicly and agree not to relaunch a competing wiki also fit the trope. Too many communities have found that they've lost editorial control of their project by seeing Wikia's name turn up on a 'whois' query.
* [[Don't Make Me Destroy You]]: Admins.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Wikia retaliates in various subtle ways against communities who try to leave, but they're [[We Suck Less|utter angels]] compared to [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/business/media/once-a-profit-dream-wikitravel-now-bedevils-owner.html Internet Brands, who sued their own users] for trying to leave Wikitravel for Wikivoyage in 2012.
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