Board Thread:General Discussions/@comment-30477336-20170502161821/@comment-4820209-20170702055429

Ghost Leader wrote: If I recall correctly, the debacle that arose from that split included many of the admins and editors who left to found the other site vandalizing numerous pages here in an attempt to "mess up" this site and make it unusable. It was also claimed that the name change to Kaijupedia was some kind of "prank" related the pending split, but I'm not quite sure how that was supposed to work.

I stayed here because I didn't agree with the defecting users' actions. Wanting to split from Wikia is fine, but being douchebags about it was totally unnecessary. In the end, we're better off without them, IMO. And my hat's off to the people here who are still working on fixing the damage they did so that people like me who aren't walking Kaiju dictionaries can get accurate info.

It's been a long time since I last read through the topic posted about it, though, so my memory of events could be fuzzy. You nailed it, basically. Bar the name change, I think that was just to differentiate the sites (poorly, but the point stands).

Can agree with everything you said, though. Well said, at that.