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On June 14, 2023, a series of changes were rolled out to the unofficial McDonald's Wiki by Fandom Staff that effectively converted several pages, including the main page, into advertising for McDonald's-related products. This was done after Fandom contacted the bureaucrats of the wiki, Parker Green and Crazy Muzzarino, in October 2022, where Fandom stated that McDonald's was interested in forming a partnership with Fandom and that McDonald's gift cards would be given to the wiki's admins if the partnership went through. This initial post did not go into detail about what the partnership would entail for the wiki. Crazy Muzzarino, who had no activity on the wiki between August 11, 2022 and June 12, 2023, did not respond to this message. Parker Green, whose profile states that he has autism, replied to this with: "Uh, not interested in the gift card. But, okay?"

On June 11, 2023, Fandom reached out to Parker Green again stating that the McDonald's partnership was more-or-less ready to be rolled out to the wiki and that Green should let Fandom know if he wanted to make any changes. Green did not respond to this new message. The main rollout occurred on June 14 as mentioned above, but it is also worth mentioning that on June 12, posts and comments were disabled on the wiki and all previous posts were deleted without any input from the wiki's admins. Additionally, Parker Green was largely inactive on the wiki for a long while before the rollout occurred, with only six non-deleted edits from January 1, 2022 to June 16, 2023, and 11 total days where Green had posted any messages in the same time period.

In case it was not obvious already, Fandom has made it clear that they are the type of company that puts profits ahead of anything else. They took advantage of the inactivity of both bureaucrats and the mental handicap of Parker Green to push advertisements onto their wiki, and also attempted to use a real-world reward to bait the responses they wanted out of them. As someone who has autism myself, I find this series of actions that Fandom has made to be absolutely disgusting, and I cannot in good conscience contribute to a site that would pull such a move.

Up until now, I have always looked the other way when Fandom introduced a change that negatively affected the user experience just so they could further line their pockets, but that does not have to happen any longer. There is currently a discussion regarding forking this wiki that can be found here, and I would highly encourage anyone reading this to participate in this discussion and support the fork, no matter whom the new host may be. As of June 17, 2023, I will no longer be editing any wiki that is hosted on Fandom. Assuming the fork occurs, I will resume editing on the new Minecraft Wiki, and all my user pages here will be turned into soft redirects. In the meantime, I will put anything worth adding to the new wiki in this spreadsheet. This spreadsheet is intentionally public in case anyone thinks the information within it is worth adding to the current Fandom wiki as well.

– JEC talk @ 03:37, 18 June 2023 (UTC)