>> Soon enough, they'll get to the business customer abuse, and then the dying, and there will be a major scramble for all of the data on those wikis to find somewhere else to be that can be stable enough and stand up enough for all the people who consult it on a regular basis for their fanworks or their barstool arguments. <<

I recommend that you repost this for marchmetamatterschallenge and encourage people to archive material from there before it becomes an emergency. This could reduce the total loss of data.

>>Okay, that's the technical stuff recommendations.<<

I support the FujoVerse for empowering people to create their own venues.

>> There are accusations that thinking and talking in tropes is reductionist <<

*laaaaauuuuugh* I'm guessing those people don't know about the Stith Thompson Index.

>> For things that aren't present in the Internet Archive <<

Archive.fo is another great archive site. Interestingly, it and Wayback are good at saving different kinds of material.

>>This is a service that most people in the United States have already paid for through their local taxation plans, or through the state's taxation plans, and therefore you may as well get as much use as you can out of it.<<

That is true if and only if you live in town, within a specific library's service area. If you live anywhere else, you are not considered a taxpaying supporter and have to pay ruinously high fees to access the materials if they are available to you at all.