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Well, I was just looking around the site to see if the Sim battles are still a thing and from what I can tell, it's dead. Like the chat, birthdays (kinda), The Sim Pen (or whatever it was called), featured sim, fanon, author, etc. I feel like this place is slowly becoming a Fanon Wiki due to the fanon pages growing more popular than that canon pages. (Not that that's a bad thing.) - Blameitonmyotp (talk) 00:55, August 13, 2017 (UTC)

The battles were retired following this discussion. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 01:40, August 13, 2017 (UTC)

To answer the initial discussion, yes Battles are dead. They were retired due to waning interest in participation, just as many features on the wiki have (main page polls, Monthly Question, Featured Article, Featured Media, The Sims' Pen, The Sims Wiki (Weekly) News, and user-created contests, to name a few). I would love to be able to revive many of these features and introduce new ones, but the investment required for me other other users to start up these ventures often doesn't pay off because other users don't participate in them and, just as importantly, don't step up and take on continuing to lead the features. It ends up being the same one or two users constantly updating those features for a dwindling audience. After awhile of that, it becomes hard to justify continuing to do it.

I don't want to end this response on a down note, though. Like I said, it would be great to see many of these features make a return. Wiki readership is actually on par with where it has been historically, and the wiki does still have editors. Right now there is a notable lack of community cohesion and a lack of initiative from pretty much everyone (myself included) to try and revive it. That's not to say that you or I or k6ka or someone else couldn't decide to do it... but as I said, it's hard to commit to that without knowing that it would be successful or even appreciated.

Please, if you have any ideas for how we can reverse this, I'm all ears. A strong community helps build a strong wiki; a weak community results in a wiki that is poor on knowledge, poor in quality, and overall a poor resource for other readers. A weak wiki in turn fails to attract new readers, and fewer new readers means fewer new editors. Any way that we can turn that around would be worth considering. -- LiR ^{talk · blog · contribs} 02:09, August 13, 2017 (UTC)