Editing Encyclopedia SpongeBobia

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|URL=https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Encyclopedia_SpongeBobia
|Quote=Behold, the SpongeBob Wiki, Fandom's most iconic wiki}}
'''Encyclopedia SpongeBobia''' ('''ESB''' for short) is a wiki for SpongeBob SquarePants-related content. The goal of Encyclopedia SpongeBobia is to create a central information database for everything SpongeBob SquarePants-related and to make this the most accurate and largest SpongeBob SquarePants information database. The site was originally founded by Haldir on April 25th, 2007 and was adopted by AMK152 on the October 7th, 2007.

== Why It Deserves a Krabby Patty ==
# The site focuses on a lot of stuff related to SpongeBob SquarePants, including shows, video games, movies, toys, DVDs, Blu-rays, VHS tapes, websites, seasons, and many you can imagine, as the name would suggest, which is neat.
# As is typical on many large wikis, you can request rights on the site as seen from here, and if your vote is successful, you'll get promoted. In terms of a page about an episode, it covers everything related to the episode, including the trivia, the reception, the plot, and images. For example, on the "Krabby Patty" page, besides the appearance and trivia, it also has information on how to make an actual krabby patty.
# Because you can't send people friend requests on Fandom, users can add you as a friend there just by simply requesting them to put you on their friends list which is fairly easy.
# Users can express their own opinions on SpongeBob episodes, whether it's unpopular or not.
# Like the Dragon's Dogma Wiki and Batman Wiki, a lot of pages have a lot of information about Synopsis, Trivia, Development on the episode and video game articles, some other pages around the wiki are very detailed.
# The templates in the wiki are helpful like the "Spoiler" template if a show, episode, etc. came out a week or so and the "Future" template if the stuff the page focuses on is not out yet.
# While a lot of blogs like the blogs Idroppedmypen or SpongeTron D makes are sorta off-topic, they can be funny for off-topic blogs.
# Proposals are also helpful as you can propose a fix a problem with the site and then everything may or may not end up good.
# They also paid respects to the dead since they respected a user named "CheeseRoxTheWorld" (one of the former discussion moderators on the site) who sadly passed away due to a drowning accident which happened 4 days before her 19th birthday.
# The wiki even has a mainspace article on the wiki itself as it shows the entire history of the wiki. [https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Encyclopedia_SpongeBobia_(website) Have a read].
# The [https://discord.com/invite/Hre37pad?utm_source=Discord%20Widget&utm_medium=Connect&username=null Encyclopedia SpongeBobia Discord] is just as good as the wiki.
# The wiki improved again after 2021 (an exception would be the UCP theme).
# Even though some admins are inactive and barely doing their job, new admins (such as Stryker305 (they sadly resigned however), BSpongeSM02, FireMatch, Thelxinoe, and The Smarter, Wiser King Dedede) came to the site to replace the older admins.
# This site even listed other fan sites on [https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_SpongeBob_SquarePants_fan_sites this page].
# H&Hs and the other stuff ESB has until the UCP update was moved to the discussions so people can relive the old ESB days and just like the blogs, there's a category for off-topic posts so you can still have a good time. In fact, thanks to the discussions and the announcement Spongebob456 made, it almost felt like ESB never went to UCP.
# Much like Pawn Community, a lot of nice users are on this site such as SpongeTron D (a.k.a Tronyboy 03 on Miraheze and Discord; possibly the best one out of all of them), WoofWoofGam3r, BSpongeSM02, Robski10, Luigi is our god, GoldenSpongebob, BookFandumb, Golfpecks256 (he sadly retired however), Mavnol111, Anthony2306, Cmcgrath26, DanielogiPL, SquidTron C, Eliternal, FireMatch, Thelxinoe, The Smarter, Wiser King Dedede, LarryBoy fan, PinkPugPrincess, The Aura Warrior of Something from Whatever, Scrooge200, AFVuser, SpongeFan99, etc.
# There are some users who used to be bad but changed their ways like WoofWoofGam3r, Jensonk, DecemberPlayz, BookFandumb, and SquidTron C.
# Unlike other FANDOM wikis, it doesn't suffer from the problems you would see from your average wiki on FANDOM, such as poor moderation, vandalism, edit warring, irresponsible admins, SJWs, etc.
# Edit warring on this wiki is almost always resolved quickly due to at least one administrator being active for almost all hours of the day.
# The wiki also spawned [https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_SpongeBob_SquarePants_fan_sites other SpongeBob related wikis] such as [https://spongefan.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_Fanon_Wiki SpongeBob Fanon Wiki], Encyclopedia SpongeBobia Wiki (closed), [https://antiscumbob.fandom.com/wiki/Anti_ScumBob_Wiki Anti-ScumBob Wiki], [https://spongebobfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Fanonia_SpongeBobia Fanonia SpongeBobia], [https://scumbob.fandom.com/wiki/Welcome_to_the_ScumBob_Wiki! ScumBob Wiki], ESB Shows Wiki, [https://spongyconstructionproject.fandom.com/wiki/The_Spongy_Construction_Project_Wiki TSCPedia], [https://spongebobsimulator.fandom.com/wiki/The_SpongeBob_Simulator_Encyclopedia The SpongeBob Simulator Encyclopedia], [https://opinionbob.fandom.com/wiki/OpinionBob_Wiki OpinionBob Wiki], and [https://spongebob.miraheze.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_SpongeBobia the wiki's Miraheze counterpart].

# Before the ESB chat retired due to the UCP update, Golf announced a party in the chat so people could spend their final times in the ESB chat.
# Twice every year, the site has user reviews where you vote or oppose if the ESB crew members and give out your own reasons for why they should keep their rights or remove their rights.
# The site also makes pages on people who play in the show; one of the examples is the page on Bob Kulick, who played the guitar in the Sweet Victory song. Another example of this is the page on David Lander, who voice acted for Donnie in the "Sharks vs. Pods" episode. One more example would be Jon Lovitz, who played Acceleration T. Greenlight in "Student Driver Survivor."
#Every October 1 or November, contests happen where you can submit a background for the wiki for Halloween or Christmas
# Going back to the templates, a lot of them are funny like the '''''"We paid nine dollars for this?"''''' joke a.k.a pun on the stub template.
# They even made pages on years to show off what SpongeBob-related things happen during those years.
# They also made pages on companies that develop video games for the show. An example of those pages is PHL Collective, which developed ''The Patrick Star Game''.
# A lot of funny jokes around here and there when it comes to being satire.
# Whenever a comment is more than 60 days old, the replies are locked, saying "This comment thread is more than 60 days old. There is no need to reply."
# If it wasn't for this site, most school students wouldn't be able to get some info if they're doing SpongeBob projects.
#It even made pages for references to ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' in popular culture, memes, parodies, internet phenomena, and more.
#Its logo from 2021-present is great and has lots of great holiday-themed ones as well such as the Halloween and Christmas 2024 ones.
# Out of all the places to get great high-quality SpongeBob images (like the fact the Amazon SpongeBob DVD images are pretty low quality), these wikis have the most perfect SpongeBob image qualities out of all of them; this is where Duchess got his images for his ''Battle for Bikini Bottom'' page on the Awesome Games Wiki, along with all the SpongeBob season DVDs and the Season 13 SpongeBob image for the "SpongeBob SquarePants (Seasons 1-5, 9-present)" page on Best Shows & Episodes Wiki and the "SpongeBob SquarePants (Seasons 6-8)" page on Terrible Shows & Episodes Wiki and is also where SquidTron C got his SpongeBob Simulator logo for The SpongeBob Simulator Encyclopedia and is also where SquidTron C got the Kreepaway Kamp image for the Kreepaway Kamp page on New Qualitipedia.

== "Barnacles!" Qualities ==
# While a lot of pages are good, there are still a lot of bad pages on the wiki like the Kamp Koral pages, Saving Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob Simulator (since they are the same as The SpongeBob Simulator Encyclopedia pages), and House Fancy pages.
# Even though the pages are well-detailed, like every other wiki on the site, there are also article stubs.
# There have been several instances of drama on the wiki (a lot of drama happened in 2024 when some people won't stop posting about Skibidi Toilet in discussions), although it has thankfully died out somewhat recently.
# A lot of users' reasons to vote oppose, keep on deletion requests, keep separate on merge requests, keep combined on separation requests, or dislike on contests can sometimes be invalid, too strict, or circle-jerking.
# The overusage of the words "babe" and "hot" can get extremely annoying for a number of reasons.
# At times, the users can be massive hypocrites (mostly users who cause drama) like on the wiki's Discord server.
# Joke votes on deletion requests like House and Bird.
# Although the users are nice, some users can be rude.
# Some users' edits to remove content from pages can sometimes can sometimes be invalid, too strict, or circle-jerking like [https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_memes?diff=4589900&oldid=4589195 this one] for an example.
# Fanonia SpongeBobia, while inactive, is a rip-off of SpongeBob Fanon Wiki, as the SpongeBob Fanon Wiki is more active than.
# Paramount infamously took down the "Sandy's Country Christmas" images from the wiki '''all because of copyright WHEN THE EPISODE WAS ALREADY RELEASE ON ANOTHER 100 EPISODES AND THE BEST 300 EPISODES EVER DVDS!'''. We are not kidding; look [https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Log/Kimberton here].

== Reception ==
Encyclopedia SpongeBobia has a high Google rank for searches related to ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' making it one of the biggest SpongeBob-related websites out there. It is also considered to be the best FANDOM wiki out of all of them for FANDOM haters as a lot of them said this site is decent despite FANDOM wikis mostly being bad and mediocre. The wiki is also one of the biggest cartoon wikis out of all of them.

== Trivia ==
*This is the first page of a Fandom wiki to be added on here.
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