Board Thread:Wiki/@comment-5774380-20151006125532/@comment-5774380-20151008170505

@EternalLocket: Hahaha, I mention the One Piece Wiki many times because I follow that series as well, so I visit their wiki and I like some of the things they do there. :P

It's impossible not try to emulate things that you've seen in other places and that you liked. You know that this wiki is based mostly on the Fairy Tail Wiki because the previous admins were users of that site too. The tabs of the infoboxes and the Ref template were inspired by the ones used in the One Piece Wiki (though not based because their templates are too confusing and I prefer to write my own versions from scratch); the table of appearances is a combination of a template created originally for The Mentalist Wiki (based in turn on one from the CSI Wiki) and another seen in the Wiki 24; the tabs come from The Mentalist Wiki too; the Facebook module was taken from the Castle Wiki, etc, etc.

So if you look closely, anything we use or do is based to some degree on something we saw elsewhere. There's no such thing like "true originality". But that doesn't mean that I want to make this wiki into a copy of another site, just that I'd like to incorporate some of the nice things; and doing that is what has helped us to improve the site to the point where it is now. That being said, I don't like many other things that those other wikis do; and I think our wiki, even with its flaws and despite being much smaller, it's far better than the One Piece Wiki in many other aspects, so trying to make it into a copy of them would actually be a regression.

Anyway, coming back to the point of discussion, it's clear that you and I have completely opposite points of view regarding this proposal, so I want to know that is the opinion of the other users.