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** Since Wikia allows anyone that wants to start a Wiki to do so, this happens quite often with those who don't like the guidelines, procedures, etc., etc. of a particular wiki. It often doesn't end well, since most of these people are neither suited to be admins nor have the ability to gather followers to their new wiki.
*** One of the most prominent examples (and far more successful than most) is the ''[[Star Wars]]'' fandom's [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Wookieepedia]], which came about when Wikipedia purged a great many ''Star Wars'' articles as "non-notable". Copies of the purged articles were part of the core of Wookieepedia in its early days. Now Wookieepedia is the 5th-largest Wiki in existence.
* TV Tropes actually has some examples of its own of Start My Own:
** TV Tropes actually has its own example of Start My Own—severalSeveral users who were upset with the way thisthat site was run started [http://tropesmirrorwiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Page their own version] with more concentration on the actual elements of storytelling, analysis of how they are used in works, and less concentration on Japanese media. Unlike most Start Your Owns, this one doesn't seem to be shutting down any time soon.
*** And now The Tropes Wiki has [http://editthis.info/tv_tropes/Main_Page its own example of] Start My Own. A user, disgruntled that the Admins at the Tropes Mirror wouldn't let him import pages upon pages of S&M porn to the wiki went and started his own... but unlike the Tropes Wiki, this one (which appears to be a one-man operation) makes no pretense about being anything but a copy-paste of thisTV wikiTropes.
*** In addition to the first Start My Own Trope Mirror, there is now the ''[http://tvtropesmirror.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Unofficial TV Tropes Mirror]'', which is being run by contributors to the original Tropes Wiki who are upset about the fact that the creators of the Tropes Wiki really meant it when they said that [[Anime]] would not be considered a [[Special Snowflake Syndrome|Unique and Special Snowflake]] (the Unofficial Tropes Mirror Wiki, for example, renamed the "[[Band of Brothers]] trope page "Nakama", and doesn't bother with a "[[True Companions]]" page, for example.
**** This very wiki was also a Start My Own created by several veteran tropers (including one who'd been a member of the site since its early days) who disagreed with the major changes made to TV Tropes' policies in 2012.
* Happens online all the time, due to the relative ease of creating a website. If we listed all the examples we'd be here all day. However, two famous victims are [[Live Journal]], which has a half-zillion clones at this point (all of them near-''perfect'' clones in fact, due to the site's open-source codebase), and [[Deviant ART]], whose restrictive policies led to the creation of SheezyArt and later [[Furry Fandom|FurAffinity]]. In most such cases, the result is similar to the comedic examples in fiction, with so many people starting their own site that none of them have many users.
* At one point in its history, the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' had a new referee who decided, without any consultation on the owners of the property, or with the other referees, that he was going to rewrite the history of the game world, and move the game to a new site out of the owner's control. When he was (justifiably) booted with extreme prejudice, he declared the old group lame and started up his own. It lasted about four months before folding.
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