The GTA Wiki Locked Its GTA 6 Page Until December

On gta.fandom.com the article "Grand Theft Auto VI" cannot be edited or moved by ordinary users. It is protected at the sysop level with an expiry of 2026-12-09T19:00:00Z, which is 20 days and 19 hours after the 19 November 2026 release date on record. The character article "Lucia Caminos" carries an identical lock. In the same API call, the Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online articles come back at a lower protection level with no expiry, which is what makes this specific to the Grand Theft Auto VI pages rather than a description of how this wiki protects everything. CONFIRMED. This desk's editor called the Fandom API itself. The protection query over four titles returned HTTP 200 at 1,688 bytes at 2026-10-06T03:25:43Z. The protection log for Grand Theft Auto VI returned HTTP 200 at 3,423 bytes at 03:25:58Z, a byte size matching researcher 3's independent reading of the same endpoint exactly. The protection state, and the control that is the spine of the story All four rows below came back in one call, from one endpoint, at one instant. That matters, because a control run against a different endpoint or a different session would be a weaker control. PagepageidArticle length, bytesEdit protectionExpiry Grand Theft Auto VI30438634,914sysop2026-12-09T19:00:00Z Lucia Caminos3674084,923sysop2026-12-09T19:00:00Z Grand Theft Auto V5957872,542autoconfirmedinfinity Grand Theft Auto Online8358561,322autoconfirmedinfinity The control holds. The same endpoint, answering the same request, returns a lower protection level for the two older pages. On this wiki, autoconfirmed means an established account can edit; sysop means an administrator. So the sysop lock covers the Grand Theft Auto VI article and the Lucia Caminos article and does not cover the two long running Grand Theft Auto articles beside them. Researcher 3 records that the Grand Theft Auto VI page's restrictiontypes are edit, move and comment, and that the protection array reads exactly [{"type":"edit","level":"sysop","expiry":"2026-12-09T19:00:00Z"},{"type":"move","level":"sysop","expiry":"2026-12-09T19:00:00Z"}]. Both the edit and the move restriction carry the same level and the same expiry. The protection log, read by the editor, newest first Applied, UTCByActionComment as served 2025-11-07T22:37:02ZNalexandruNmodify"GTA VI delayed agian" 2025-05-04T16:06:50ZNalexandruNmodify"GTA VI delayed" 2025-02-16T09:44:37ZNalexandruNmodify"GTA VI page" 2023-12-04T23:15:06ZMonkeypolice188move_protpage moved from "Untitled Upcoming Grand Theft Auto Game" 2023-12-01T14:13:31ZKamikatsumove_protthe same move 2022-02-04T20:27:53ZKiwismurfmodifyno comment 2022-02-04T15:54:51ZLS11sVaultBoyprotect"High traffic page" 2017-07-16T19:16:30ZUltimate94ninjaprotect"No official announcement" The misspelling in the top row is the log's own and not this desk's. The comment on the 2025-11-07 entry reads "GTA VI delayed agian", with "again" spelled "agian", exactly as the API serves it. This desk reproduces it as written and does not correct it inside a quotation. The three dated extensions were each applied by the same account and each pushed the expiry further out. Researcher 3 read the expiry each one set, and those three values are attributed to researcher 3: the February 2025 entry set 2025-12-15T18:00:00Z, the May 2025 entry set 2026-06-15T20:00:00Z, and the November 2025 entry set the expiry now in force, 2026-12-09T19:00:00Z. Each of the two later comments names a delay. Published Rockstar promotional artwork. It carries no information about this story, it has no connection to the wiki or to any account named here, and it does not illustrate any claim made in this article. The arithmetic, computed rather than asserted Each figure below was computed by the editor with a date library. Interval or ratioValue Applied, 2025-11-07T22:37:02Z, to expiry, 2026-12-09T19:00:00Z396 days, 20 hours, 22 minutes, 58 seconds Release date on record, 19 November 2026, to expiry20 days and 19 hours Editor's read, 2026-10-06T03:25:43Z, to expiry64 days, 15 hours, 34 minutes, 17 seconds 34,914 bytes divided by 72,542 bytes0.4813, so the GTA VI article is 48.13 per cent the size of the GTA V article A minor divergence, printed rather than smoothed over Researcher 3 computed the read-to-expiry interval as 64 days 15 hours 45 minutes 44 seconds. The editor computed 64 days 15 hours 34 minutes 17 seconds. The gap between the two figures is 11 minutes 27 seconds, and the gap between the two read times is also 11 minutes 27 seconds. Both figures are correct for their own read. This article uses the editor's figure, measured from the editor's read at 2026-10-06T03:25:43Z, and states the read time beside it so a reader can check the subtraction. Who has been writing the page, attributed to researcher 3 These readings come from researcher 3's revision history queries and were not re-fetched by the editor, so each is attributed to researcher 3. The article has not been edited since 2026-09-25T15:17:58Z. It took 13 edits in 2026 to date, from four accounts: Callyius 6, Humanashi 5, Kamikatsu 1 and Bmxm 1. The last six content edits were all made by one account, Callyius, and took the article from 25,004 bytes to 34,914 bytes. Researcher 3 also records a field that should not be mistaken for an edit. The page's touched stamp reads 2026-09-30T17:43:43Z, five days later than the last actual revision, because touched records cache invalidation rather than a content change. Reporting that stamp as an edit would be wrong, so this article does not. What this covers that nothing else on this site does Two published articles on this site have used the same revision trail for other purposes, gta-6-coast-guard-station-183-palermo-drive-islamorada-wiki-revision-trail and gta-6-focus-system-wiki-citation-ign-69-gameplay-details-item-33. Neither covers the protection state of the article, and no published slug on this site does. This is a new beat rather than a refresh of an old one. LIMITS, and none of these is optional The Fandom users endpoint does not report the local rights that were actually exercised. Researcher 3 queried it and found no sysop group returned for NalexandruN, an account that plainly exercised administrator rights in the protection log above. That endpoint therefore cannot establish which accounts hold local adminship on this wiki, and this desk makes no claim from it about any account's rights. Nothing is stated here about whether any named account is or is not a Fandom employee. Researcher 3 flagged that explicitly, the editor upholds the flag, and this article does not speculate about any editor's employment, affiliation or motive. A protection expiry is an administrator's setting and not a statement about the game. It is a date somebody typed into a wiki form. It is not evidence of a delay, not evidence of a date change, and not evidence of anything Rockstar has done or will do. An administrator can shorten it, extend it or lift it at any time, and the log above shows that happening three times already. Article byte length is not a measure of quality or completeness. The 48.13 per cent ratio compares two numbers of bytes. It says nothing about how good, how accurate or how finished either article is. One wiki, one read. This is a third party fan wiki with no connection to Rockstar Games, queried once, and nothing above is a Rockstar statement or a Fandom statement. The log comments are the log's own words. Two of them name a delay. That is what an administrator wrote in a form field in 2025, and this desk reports the field rather than endorsing the account of events inside it. Retrieval method, disclosed. rockstargames.com/robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot by name. Every fetch by this desk, including the two Fandom API calls above, uses a standard desktop browser user agent against a specific public URL rather than crawling, and this desk discloses that in every batch and in every excerpt.