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===Anti-competitive practices===

{{Quote|''"~~It wasn’t~~ the ~~amount~~ of ~~ads, or Quick Answers, or~~ the ~~skin change, or staff’s horrible transparency, or their customization~~ policy~~, or their shift in focus to social aspects, or any other abitrary factor that made them move from Fandom~~, but ~~it was the product of all of these over~~ a ~~long period of time~~."'' - Quote from ~~Lindey Clayton in the article of~~ [https://~~medium~~.~~com~~/@~~lindenclayton/you-dont-understand-why-wikis-are-leaving-fandom-6378372ad06e "You don’t understand why wikis are leaving Fandom"~~]}}

{{Quote|''"People on the fandom wiki are taking a bunch of new pages from http://jojowiki.com that I and other editors spent lots of time creating just to have it on their site. They aren't explicitly plagiarizing (they tried to before) but the content and layouts are really similar. This time it's FANDOM's own employees getting paid to take our pages and replace words with synonyms. I wouldn't mind if they at least credited us (which they are supposed to do as per our copyright policy), but they have a filter that bans anyone who links to our site."'' - Quote from [https://archive.ph/rDtMx @Vishkujo], administrator of the JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia (2021)}}

In a blog post published in 2025 by editor Violet, who had previously worked on moving Death Battle Wiki to the non-profit host ''Miraheze'', he explained that one of the reasons for moving the wiki to a different host was due to Fandom's attempts to remove links or mentions to wikis on different platforms, explaining that this has led to a lot of internal discussion regarding external links, where editors are forced to promote dead wikis that are still hosted on Fandom instead of independent options that are actively maintained.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025 |title=Leaving Fandom |url=https://deathbattle.miraheze.org/wiki/DEATH_BATTLE!_Wiki:Leaving_FANDOM |access-date=2025-08-19 |website=Death Battle Wiki! via Miraheze |quote=Aside from this dodgy language being used to try and justify their anti-competitive practices, this also actively hinders our own editing by preventing us from providing external links to wikis that have migrated out of Fandom and are being actively supported, which means we are not "organically sharing" accurate information for franchises acknowledged by the show like, say, Terraria, Bendy, and Guilty Gear.}}</ref>

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 ===Anti-competitive practices===
-{{Quote|''"It wasn’t the amount of ads, or Quick Answers, or the skin change, or staff’s horrible transparency, or their customization policy, or their shift in focus to social aspects, or any other abitrary factor that made them move from Fandom, but it was the product of all of these over a long period of time."'' - Quote from Lindey Clayton in the article of [https://medium.com/@lindenclayton/you-dont-understand-why-wikis-are-leaving-fandom-6378372ad06e "You don’t understand why wikis are leaving Fandom"]}}
+{{Quote|''"People on the fandom wiki are taking a bunch of new pages from http://jojowiki.com that I and other editors spent lots of time creating just to have it on their site. They aren't explicitly plagiarizing (they tried to before) but the content and layouts are really similar. This time it's FANDOM's own employees getting paid to take our pages and replace words with synonyms. I wouldn't mind if they at least credited us (which they are supposed to do as per our copyright policy), but they have a filter that bans anyone who links to our site."'' - Quote from [https://archive.ph/rDtMx @Vishkujo], administrator of the JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia (2021)}}
 In a blog post published in 2025 by editor Violet, who had previously worked on moving Death Battle Wiki to the non-profit host ''Miraheze'', he explained that one of the reasons for moving the wiki to a different host was due to Fandom's attempts to remove links or mentions to wikis on different platforms, explaining that this has led to a lot of internal discussion regarding external links, where editors are forced to promote dead wikis that are still hosted on Fandom instead of independent options that are actively maintained.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025 |title=Leaving Fandom |url=https://deathbattle.miraheze.org/wiki/DEATH_BATTLE!_Wiki:Leaving_FANDOM |access-date=2025-08-19 |website=Death Battle Wiki! via Miraheze |quote=Aside from this dodgy language being used to try and justify their anti-competitive practices, this also actively hinders our own editing by preventing us from providing external links to wikis that have migrated out of Fandom and are being actively supported, which means we are not "organically sharing" accurate information for franchises acknowledged by the show like, say, Terraria, Bendy, and Guilty Gear.}}</ref>