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On September 13, 2018, the SpongeBob Fanon Wiki (or SBFW) was closed down by Fandom following a report by Golfpecks256 (an admin on Fanonia SpongeBobia, another SpongeBob fanon site) in response to months of toxic culture, harassment and content in violation of Fandom's terms of use (read more: List of controversial pages).
Over ten thousand pages and works of fanon that users had been creating since the wiki's creation in 2008 were lost. The wiki's community temporarily moved to the "SpongeBob New Fanon Wiki" (created by ) until the original wiki was later restored on April 30, 2019, in response to a plea to Fandom from Golfpecks256.
This event has come to colloquially be referred to as "9/13", since the closure of the wiki occurred only two days after the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
== Background ==
Tensions between the Wiki, Golfpecks and FANDOM itself began building up mid-2018, as Golfpecks began causing trouble in the official SBFW discord and on the wiki; violating rules, leaving hostile comments, writing episodes mocking the wiki, among various others. On top of all this, users began accusing Golf of being the infamous SBFW Discord raider, Bigfoot, which Golf would heavily dispute.
=== SpongeBob Visits FANDOM/SpongeBob Visits Discord ===
On August 18 of 2018, Purple133's original gameshow Spin-Off Kings was in the middle of its first season, and Golfpecks was a participant. On that day, Golfpecks had submitted his episode SpongeBob visits FANDOM. The episode was essentially a criticism of the wiki, while also calling out several users, including FireMatch, TheJasbre202, DanzxvFan8275, The Terrible Travis, among others, while also blatantly stating that Encyclopedia SpongeBobia was better. This episode stirred up major controversy among SBFW users at the time, especially the ones who were called out by name, as they felt that the episode was just an excuse for Golfpecks to trash on the wiki harder than he already was accused of doing. 
However, less than a month later, on September 2nd, Golfpecks released another controversial episode, entitled SpongeBob visits Discord, which instead of being a callout of the wiki, was instead a callout of the SBFW Discord server, alongside a few other Discord servers. This stirred up even more tension than there was before, as the users were still mad at Golf for everything he did, and how SpongeBob Visits FANDOM was not even a month old at that point when Golfpecks released his sequel.
=== Reporting/Shutdown of the Wiki ===
On September 11th of 2018, due to the amount of harassment targeted at Golfpecks, he had announced that he would be reporting the Wiki to FANDOM, and this caused panic among users, who felt that their wiki could be closed down at any moment. CrazySponge had created a backup wiki, called the "New Wiki" by the users, just in case the Wiki were to be deleted. 
On September 13th, 2 days later, SBFW users had noticed that the wiki was officially closed down. The users were incredibly upset by this, with some even angrily messaging Golfpecks via several social media platforms to express their frustration at his actions. The next thing many users began to do was to laboriously port over the old pages to the new Wiki, since the page notifying that the wiki closed offered a download of all the data that was previously hosted on the wiki.
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