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:I hold my opinions for well-founded reasons. Policies like "Competence is required" are brutal and completely against the spirit of ''this'' wiki (and it is NOT a wikipedia policy, just a [[wp:Competence is required|suggestion]]). And your staff defended each other even when they were breaking the law and when one was sacked by Wikia. Personally, you seem very sensible, so I still have no idea why you associate yourself with such a negative wiki. As for Greg, whilst he seems to have got into a dispute on Wikia, I have no quarrel with him. Unlike gta.wikias staff, I ''do'' assume good faith and give people the chance to improve. In the specific instance with Sex Club 7 and other things, the staff were rude, refused to listen to a user who genuinely wanted to help, and that is what ''made'' him get upset and turn abusive. Here, none of our staff ''ever'' yell at users or call them idiots, and none of them are rude to us. That speaks volumes, I think. [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 20:20, 30 August 2011 (BST)
 
:I hold my opinions for well-founded reasons. Policies like "Competence is required" are brutal and completely against the spirit of ''this'' wiki (and it is NOT a wikipedia policy, just a [[wp:Competence is required|suggestion]]). And your staff defended each other even when they were breaking the law and when one was sacked by Wikia. Personally, you seem very sensible, so I still have no idea why you associate yourself with such a negative wiki. As for Greg, whilst he seems to have got into a dispute on Wikia, I have no quarrel with him. Unlike gta.wikias staff, I ''do'' assume good faith and give people the chance to improve. In the specific instance with Sex Club 7 and other things, the staff were rude, refused to listen to a user who genuinely wanted to help, and that is what ''made'' him get upset and turn abusive. Here, none of our staff ''ever'' yell at users or call them idiots, and none of them are rude to us. That speaks volumes, I think. [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 20:20, 30 August 2011 (BST)
 
I'm gonna say it here and I don't care if it pleases or offends you or your other so far up your own backsides you need solvent, I saw what you wrote on your precious little Wikia 'bout me well, you, you long streak of cold piss, I find you plausible and you think that just 'cause you can block me on your other website you're a hard man, bruv you ain't, you're just an internet user like every other Dick, Tom & Harry in this world! What gives you a right to turn people against other people? You scum bag! Just 'cause your parents hate you not my problem! Whilst you're at it, tell Dan the Man 1983, he's 28 for fuck sake, to go and get a life if all he's got in his life is a website page, I've know 15 year olds to get pissy 'cause of not being able to provide for their son/daughter or is he so fucking repulsive no girl would wanna go near him? Your website makes the London Police look trustworthy, which one of you had the brains to copy right this website? Did Dan use his two brain cells to add 1 + 1 together? Hope he didn't break the calculator to get the answer and if any of you lot bother to look on my page and how many edits I made, I was nigh on your PR, I got you more users, I don't need shit for my thanks from arseholes like you. Ever heard "Don't shit on your doorstep?" Doubt it. Now go on tell him what I said and what Gboyers, at least on here they accept edits you lot only accept your own bombastic edits 'cause you don't like other peoples knowledge, and tell Dan whilst you're next writing your little "love ya babe" comments to each other, that my Mis-Teeq Misty edit was sourced, it was in a magazine in 2002!!!
 
  
 
== You're here too. ==
 
== You're here too. ==
  
 
Hey Tom ;).--<font face="Papyrus" color="blue" size="3">[[User:Mizu101|Mizu]]</font><font face="Papyrus" color="blue" size="1"><sup> [[User talk:Mizu101|(talk)]]</sup></font> 09:38, 16 July 2011 (BST)
 
Hey Tom ;).--<font face="Papyrus" color="blue" size="3">[[User:Mizu101|Mizu]]</font><font face="Papyrus" color="blue" size="1"><sup> [[User talk:Mizu101|(talk)]]</sup></font> 09:38, 16 July 2011 (BST)

Revision as of 21:51, 30 August 2011

Welcome

Hi, welcome to Grand Theft Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the Lure (GTA IV) page.

Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- Gta-mysteries (Talk) 23:57, 3 August 2010

Ballas attack CJ

CJ didn't do anything to Ballas gang. And why the Ballas always attack CJ? --Videogamer13 12:03, September 26, 2010 (UTC)

Ghost town figure

I have found the ghost in Las Brujas, Bone County. This is real truth. --Videogamer13 05:45, September 29, 2010 (UTC)

Re: Leaving Wikia

There were many reasons leading the community to agree to leave Wikia. Firstly, they have been adding more and more adverts over the years. Whilst I understand needing to pay for it, they have started putting adverts inside the content area (mostly for logged-out users), and it's detracting from the content.

As for the Oasis skin, whilst it looks okay (in my opinion), it's actually very annoying to use (with buttons spread out and not in an easy place) and the very thin content area makes pages longer and unnecessarily destroys our layouts. If you use this wiki, you will find it's a lot easier to navigate and use, with a couple of exceptions. The navigation is very annoying, with the main navigation linking you to wikia.com and other wikis, rather than the home page of the wiki and navigating around it.

They also removed our ability to customise the design, just so that they can guarantee the visibility of their adverts. There are also a number of new features which we disagree with - such as images in articles always showing the name of the uploader, which is pointless as the uploader is never the copyright holder; and they're trying to roll out comments under articles instead of proper discussion pages.

Lastly, there's a strong move by Wikia staff to manage the wikis more closely, taking over many responsibilites from each wiki's administrators, and enforcing their will regardless of the community. With the Oasis skin, many members of the community were on the beta and were giving feedback for months before, which Wikia ignored completely. This has been a huge problem, with many people upset that wikia have ignored all the suggestions. We felt that we could not allow this pattern to continue, because the next thing might be Wikia choosing the admins and managing each wiki themselves. This was proved correct when Wikia banned GTW's staff from the old site, because the wiki's community had chosen to move.

I stress that the community decided to move, this was done by consensus not just staff deciding. That is how we run this wiki, and Wikia could not accept that. Hope that answers your question! Gboyers 00:21, 18 October 2010 (BST)

I agree with you entirely! Wikia are just the hosts, not the owners or leaders of the wikis. If they don't like the wiki, they should be able to stop hosting it, but they should not be able to interfere. I have always held the values that this wiki is community run, and we should always take the community's opinion into account. The decision to move was made by the community, not staff. I wish Wikia would do the same, but they refused, so we were forced to move. As for wiki activity, we have [{Special:RecentChanges|Recent Edits]]? I can try to get MyHome added if you think lots of users need it. Gboyers 00:46, 18 October 2010 (BST)

No, we're not deleting any pages. One admin who has stayed behind was trying to turn it into a modding wiki, so was deleting pages that were completely irrelevant (like the names of all the inactive shop fronts). But Wikia didn't like that idea, so they've stopped that too. Gboyers 01:27, 18 October 2010 (BST)

Re: Hi

In reply to Hi & Af1105

Thanks for getting in touch. I don't think "rival" is the right word. I founded Grand Theft Wiki long before it moved to Wikia. The community and the website later decided to move away from Wikia again, but Wikia decided to keep a copy and pretend nothing happened. I don't have any problem with the users of gta.wikia, but I believe that this is the legitimate site and that all users should work together on ONE site rather than split over two. I'm sure you understand that if Wikia allow users to copy content over from this site to theirs without attribution, that is really disprespecting the work we are doing, and the 5 years' of work we have been putting into this site.

I'm not sure why WikisEditor is saying that we want to "destroy" the wiki and that is needs to be saved from its "doom". I think that is quite a simplistic and immature way of looking at this issue. It is also wrong, as some of the staff members DID decide to help out the community that didn't move straight away.

I hope you understand that this is NOT a competition, it's about making a really awesome website full of awesome GTA information. We decided that the website would be better if we were not at Wikia, so we moved. I think it is pointless to run "rival" sites, and I'm sure we both have the same goals, so why not work together?

With regards to the users you mentioned, we have seen quite a few people pretend to be staff, but these are just kids who think they sound cool, rather than deliberately causing trouble. Of course we won't allow them to pretend, and we will stop them if they do, but we don't ban people just for showing off. Thanks for letting me know - Gboyers 00:29, 19 April 2011 (BST)

Re: GTA Wikia

In reply to GTA Wikia


Hi again. Firstly, I appreciate you getting in touch and making an effort to resolve this dispute amicably. However, I don't appreciate you saying that I should be "punished". I'm not sure how much you know about the history of these two wikis, but I'm sure you know that I founded them and with the community decided to move here.

I'm also not sure how much you know about the licencing of the two wikis. Grand Theft Wiki's content is licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA), which permits anyone the privilege of re-using and adapting our content, providing that you attribute the work in the manner specified by the licensor (me). As specified on Grand Theft Wiki's Copyright policy, we specify the requirements for attribution to be "linking back to this site on each page our content has been used on".

As Wikia and its users have failed to provide this correct attribution on multiple occasions, despite several opportunities and promises to cease this activity - and thus breached the licence - the CC-BY-SA agreement is automatically terminated, as per section 7.a of the full licence text:

7. Termination

This License and the rights granted hereunder will terminate automatically upon any breach by You of the terms of this License.


This means that since Wikia has breached the licence, it is terminated, and Wikia is no longer permitted to use Grand Theft Wiki's content under the CC-BY-SA licence. This means that Wikia can not copy any content from GTW, even if they provide attribution, and normal full copyright rules apply.

I hope you realise that I'm only trying to protect the users that have contributed to Grand Theft Wiki over the past 5 years. Wikias disregard of our users, their rights, and their wiki is very disappointing; and this is why we moved. Gboyers 17:54, 29 May 2011 (BST)

I apologise if I misunderstood, and again I appreciate you helping resolve this situation. As I said before, I think it would be much better if we all worked together to make a good wiki, instead of this "us and them" attitude that does seem to exist. If we can make this happen, I'm willing to try. Gboyers 18:57, 29 May 2011 (BST)


Erm, I think you have the wrong impression. These are not "my users", I'm not in charge of them, I don't tell them what to do. They are all independent people who go on whatever site they like. Also, I'm not at all claiming that anyone is copying content anymore.

I believe that the Wikia site is an illegal copy, since the site and the licence attached moved to this domain, and the licence was automatically cancelled as it was breached. Many of the users on this site share that view, and I think it is very unfair of you to suggest that it is somehow my fault that they choose to express that view.

If you or Wikia have a problem with the way people are using your site, then there are many options at your disposal. Wikia seems happy to ban users who they disagree with - I am still banned from the site I founded. If that's the site you want to be a part of, that's up to you, but don't come here to complain when people disagree with it. Gboyers 17:51, 10 July 2011 (BST)

I do not support vandalising the GTA Wiki site, but I'm not going to go around defending that site or the people that run it. GTA Wiki gets all the traffic it does because it's all the traffic we built up when we were at Wikia, on the same domain; and because almost 100% of your content is from Grand Theft Wiki - MY site that I founded in 2006 - and the five years of work that users have put in to it since. Vandalising sites is no way to spread the message; but as for Wikia's tactics - including putting money and adverts before content and users, banning the administrators and users who wanted to move, and completely ignoring the community - that is no way to behave either. Gboyers 20:13, 10 July 2011 (BST)
You say that you "think it would be better for them if they found a helpful informative wiki rather than a vandalised mess". I disagree. I think it would be better for visitors to have ONE wiki with ALL the information they want, and that every good user contributes to. Right now, there are two sites, which dilutes content, users and quality on both. The visitors lose out. You might suggest that we 'give up' and go back to Wikia, but I think that is a ridiculous idea. The founder, staff and users of a site should be able to move it. We moved the site, and that copy was left behind. Wikia had no moral right to maintain the copy and take all the credit and the traffic and users that should be coming here.
If you created a site, if you put 5 years of work into it, and it became popular and people loved it, how would you feel if someone copied it, took all the credit, and took all your traffic? Then when the users are upset about the way they've been treated, they come and ask you to help their site? It's ridiculous and I have no sympathy for the attention-seeking administrators that just want to be staff. If you really cared about creating a good quality wiki, you would have helped out here and you would probably have become staff here. But you chose to take control of the abandoned, illegitimate copy just so you could become staff; and you're working to improve that copy over the real Grand Theft Wiki. Do you really think that is the right thing to do? Gboyers 20:27, 10 July 2011 (BST)

I have nothing against you, and I haven't looked into your personal history to know the details of your promotion. Also, it wasn't "not liking the skin" that made us leave Wikia, it was a huge range of issues from the horrendous advertising (which you don't see as a logged-in administrator), to completely ignoring the HUGE range of opinion regarding the new skin, to the complete disregard of users that was emerging. I am still very glad we left, and I know many sites that want to, but Wikia's policy of demoting and banning users/staff of moved sites whilst continuing to run the sites makes it a very tough choice. I really don't see why someone would want to support Wikia, when the vast majority of users that wrote the content for the site, and all the staff that made it the awesome site it is, moved the site here. I don't get why you seem to think that Wikia is in the right to do what they do. It's not a case of having a tantrum cos we don't like the new skin - it's OUR site, and we moved it. Gboyers 23:37, 10 July 2011 (BST)


In reply to greg
I hold my opinions for well-founded reasons. Policies like "Competence is required" are brutal and completely against the spirit of this wiki (and it is NOT a wikipedia policy, just a suggestion). And your staff defended each other even when they were breaking the law and when one was sacked by Wikia. Personally, you seem very sensible, so I still have no idea why you associate yourself with such a negative wiki. As for Greg, whilst he seems to have got into a dispute on Wikia, I have no quarrel with him. Unlike gta.wikias staff, I do assume good faith and give people the chance to improve. In the specific instance with Sex Club 7 and other things, the staff were rude, refused to listen to a user who genuinely wanted to help, and that is what made him get upset and turn abusive. Here, none of our staff ever yell at users or call them idiots, and none of them are rude to us. That speaks volumes, I think. gboyers talk 20:20, 30 August 2011 (BST)

You're here too.

Hey Tom ;).--Mizu (talk) 09:38, 16 July 2011 (BST)
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