Thread:RRabbit42/@comment-5754292-20170520203510/@comment-961279-20170605112257

I'm not an admin here, but I've seen the same thing you have. It's a side effect of how this wiki was created.

Back in 2012, a user decided he wanted to make a copy of the Villains Wikia and have it cover more than just villains, but he made two wikis within ten minutes of each other and named both of them "Antagonists Wiki". One has a "antagonist" prefix in the address and this one has "antagonists". And then he disappeared and never made another edit ever again.

That left both wikis wide open for several problems: fighting over exactly what kind of antagonist each character is (antagonist fussing), people just slapping dozens of categories on pages without bothering to write anything else, having characters on both wikis where sometimes the info is duplicated on both and sometimes it's different, and trying to dictate what's allowed by a few specific people and run roughshod over anyone who disagreed.

Trying to get rid of any character simply because they're "not a villain" is another problem like those where people are focusing too narrowly on one specific point. That's not what this wiki is about. It is about antagonists in general. If people want to see only villains, they need to go to the Villains Wikia.

I've attempted to corral some of these problems, but what we really need is to merge both Antagonists wikis together. This was actually proposed by Wikia itself in 2014. I started the process, but after another person adopted this one, that came to an end.

However, this wiki became eligible for adoption a couple of weeks ago, so it may be time to get the merge going again. So here's what I would do if I could make that happen:


 * All pages from the other Antagonists Wiki moved here, then that wiki is forwarded into this one.
 * The policies I developed about speculation abuse, category usage, antagonist levels and the block policy would be applied here.
 * Crack down on category spamming so that we stop having pages where there's abuses like fifty categories and one sentence on the page.

Frankly, I'd like to get rid of the "Add Category" button since that's been abused so many times, but that's prohibited by Fandom/Wikia.