GTA Wiki:Un-affiliation from GTA Myths WIki

In June 2018, the majority of the active GTA Wikia Staff came to an agreement to dismiss its affiliation from GTA Myths Wiki, formerly known as GTA Wiki's "sister" wiki. Since then, the GTA Myths Wiki is in no way associated to GTA Wiki, meaning no content between either site is to be shared, including any media. While the FANDOM Licensing Policy states that cross-wiki content sharing is acceptable, it claims and illustrates how any content used must be linked back to the source wiki. .

Uproar was initially caused regarding the licensing policy when the GTA Myths Wiki Bureaucracy team claimed they would begin removing links to GTA Wiki on articles which contained GTA Wiki content, while still retaining the content itself. This issue is currently under investigation by FANDOM Staff.

Why was Myths Wiki Un-affiliated?
During the discussion, various points were made. Without naming any names, various users were brought to attention with issues and concerns regarding their activity, civility, and most importantly, ability to handle situations in the correct manner as active staff members. GTA Myths Wiki content is believed to have significantly degraded over time, and as such, GTA Wiki no longer accepts any responsibility for misleading users into potentially false, unsourced, speculative information more than it already may do so. As wikis, naturally, unsourced speculation will always find its ways between the cracks of staff activity, however the GTA Wiki promises to do its best to ensure that information is sourced, and any already unsourced-information is indeed fixed. Staff members from the GTA Wiki recognize this trait well, and claims that GTA Myths Wiki has absolutely no tolerance for letting speculative content be sourced and/or disproven hampered Staff reputation in the eyes of many. This, and the fact that a large percentage of the GTA Myths Wiki Staff have run into trouble with sock-puppetry, vandalism and other forms of unacceptable behaviour, puts a controversial character on the team behind the site.

Myths Wiki also introduced a somewhat controversial policy known as the Myth Existence Status, in which users who wish to disprove content and provide counter evidence must resort to getting the approval of GTA Myths Wiki Staff at the Existence Status Requests page before doing so.

Is there a future?
The future between the GTA Wikia and GTA Myths Wikia remains unknown. Currently, the GTA Wikia team have come to no agreements for an established future relation between the sites, however suggestions that Myths Wiki's content and administration must be improved have been brought up several times. Until then, the two wikis are on neutral terms.

Currently, GTA Wiki has no intention to provide links to alternative sites, however the possibility may be considered in the future. GTA Wiki would like to take this opportunity to inform the reader that in no point during this article, or the discussion linked within it, does the GTA Wikia Staff team intend to put a bad name on the GTA Myths Wiki, its users or its content, and all points made are based on opinions and discussion made between users during the agreement.

What affect does or did this have?
Although the affiliation was not as such an official documentation and merely consisted of either wiki supporting links to one another, the affiliation was more meaningful under the surface of the wiki. Users would frequently visit each wiki knowing a connection was between them, more so than other GTA Wiki affiliations.

As with any official separation, the affiliation period caused uproar on both parties. Users, including the original author of the un-affiliation, were blocked from GTA Myths Wiki, and continuous backlash became evident across talk pages and forums.

The separation also resulted in GTA Wiki removing GTA Myths Wiki from its affiliated sites on the Main Page.

As part of the agreement, GTA Wiki will not provide a link to the GTA Myths Wiki in this article.