Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-25648422-20151220121629

Serious, serious topic. There has been a bit of recent issues of well, a certain user (whom I'd rather not give the name out) claiming other's works (more likely fanworks/arts) as his own and after constant reprimands and warnings from users telling him to quit claiming other's stuff as his own, ignored them and continued to perform more acts of claiming other people's work (and even using them without proper consent). This one also reminds me of another certain user (once again I won't mention the username) who used an image from an external image hosting site, made changes to that image and even uploaded it here. It so happened that it raised the awarenes of the original creator of the image that the person had to come here in order to ask THAT user to give her credit for using her art.

and I both thought that we may as well enforce a copyright rule in, which to state it simple, a rule that does not allow anyone to claim other's content as his/her own.

This does not apply to claiming images or random fanarts too. We, editors of Plants vs. Zombies Wiki, also have our rights in regards to content in this wiki. Imagine someone copypasting every single content and detail of the Peashooter article and then created the same "Peashooter" article in another wiki without even bothering to paraphrase or change the wording or even the layout of the Peashooter article. That sucks right? I mean imagine how many hours, weeks, or even months it took to create the Peashooter article and how many editors tried to make it as factual as possible, only to find out someone copypasted the whole Peashooter article and then made it another wiki without making major changes and worse, claiming it as the original creator of the article. That's the definition of plagiarism. And many wikis don't allow plagiarism.

It's time to vote.

 