Board Thread:Voting/@comment-26573805-20160702231538/@comment-26573805-20160706001012

I received a reply:

"Hi,

Thanks for contacting Wikia.

The Terms of Use (http://www.wikia.com/Terms_of_Use) restrict membership to those 13 years of age in order to comply with a federal law called COPPA. (See http://community.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Semanticdrifter/Updates_to_COPPA for more info).

Basically, the law applies to Wikia and says what we can and can't do. We don't ask admins to enforce this aspect of our Terms of Use and we gladly accept any reports of underage users. That said, many communities have local policies and it is not uncommon for them to block directly.

Best,

__ Sean M. Wikia Community Support http://community.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Semanticdrifter/The_CC-BY-SA_License_and_You http://community.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Semanticdrifter/Understanding_Fair_Use

From https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2oacdIpXYKsLThKVTFmQmFwdWs/view?usp=sharing, which is what I received from them.

Meaning: They disable and ban underaged users per the Terms of Service to comply with COPPA as a federal law, but they do not require nor ask admins to do this themselves. Wikis do have local guidelines and the case is that it is not uncommon to run across a wikia where they do this. Otherwise, they do not ask all wikias to do this.