Atrocious Deviants Wiki

Atrocious Deviants Wiki (ADW) was a reception wiki hosted on Miraheze focused on Deviants with a bad reputation and atrocious moments in DeviantArt history. It was initially founded by Inky100 in July 2018 on Fandom, but was closed on November 21, 2018. However, it was moved to Miraheze by Theresnoname seven days later. The wiki has been closed as of April 21, 2020.

Why It Was Atrocious Itself

 * 1) Like with most negative user reception wikis, the wiki doesn't take into account what a "reception wiki" is. A reception wiki would be a wiki focused on poorly-received or well-received media, and therefore, people on reception wikis should usually be infamous for making that. However, the pages on ADW mostly focus on Deviants with a bad reputation rather than ones that make bad content.
 * 2) Most of the pages had source problems, which include the following:
 * 3) Had no sources whatsoever
 * 4) Had few sources
 * 5) Had sources, but used them incorrectly by simply listing them rather than coding them, which makes it unclear what proves what
 * 6) Did accurately use sources and successfully proved some claims, but still had many unsourced ones
 * 7) The infamous Zenko Controversy article, which had many problems:
 * 8) The page was incredibly off-topic for ADW, as the only reason it was considered slightly on-topic is because Zenko criticised several Deviants for questionable reasons, and they realistically never created a DeviantArt account, and for the most part had barely anything to do with it. While you could argue the same about gamers on Crappy Games Wiki, not only is that also questionable, but at least CGW had a more broad focus, while ADW is clearly focused on DeviantArt.
 * 9) *Also, even if you were to argue that the page was technically about her controversy and not Zenko herself, while that is indeed true, Zenko's actions did not have much of an affect on DeviantArt or any Deviants aside from ones who contribute to ADW or other reception wikis that had drama related to Zenko, along with WolfDoge111 responding to Zenko putting them on the TBA Pages page.
 * 10) As usual for ADW, most of the claims were unsourced or poorly sourced.
 * 11) *Some sources are unaccessible, which may have not been the same at the time ADW was around, but this source (used on a note pointer on pointer 1 in the Miraheze section) was clearly never anything more than an anonymously uploaded picture.
 * 12) *In addition to this, the page in general constantly uses screenshots as sources, despite them being unreliable due to the fact that they can be edited.
 * 13) The page claimed that Zenko "manipulated" Inkster into putting the Kingdom Hearts page on Awesome Games Wiki up for deletion, even though it is clear that Zenko just said that they believed it was a "divisive" series and Inkster decided that she was right.
 * 14) Overall, the page is proof that the negative user reception wiki (NURW) contributors need another Intentionally Bad Wikis and Users Wiki reboot.
 * 15) For some reason, the wiki had several random and unclear positions for staff, such as "Quality Control Officer" and "B&Hammer Queen."
 * 16) The wiki got so filled with drama that it had been closed as of April 21, 2020.

The Only Redeeming Quality

 * 1) MBL (known at the time as Popzikles), an administrator on ADW, did realise the poor quality of several articles and tried to get users to help improve the articles, however this unfortunately did not work, and even the "good" articles they mentioned (WubbaWankStain69, IncestLove124, and Bart-Toons) realistically were also of poor quality (due to still having several unsourced claims), even if not as bad as others.

Criticism
ADW received criticism via several websites such as DeviantArt itself and the Tumblr blog Deviantart Confessions.