User blog:RRabbit42/Deleting pages copied from other wikis

This blog is to alert everyone that I am going to start deleting pages that have been copied from other wikis if a statement isn't put in the Edit Summary where it was copied from. This is called "copying without attribution".

The reason for this is that there are two Antagonist wikis, both created by the same person within five minutes of each other. He wanted his own copy of the Villains Wikia and he made both look like that wiki, but then he left within a half hour and never came back.

In 2016, the other Antagonists Wiki received a complaint from the Villains Wikia that too much was being copied from them without attribution. Some of this was caused by a vandal that deliberately ignored warnings not to do it. It escalated to Wikia staff and the result is that at least 90% of the pages on them have a permanent attribution notice on them that can never be removed.

Wikia staff recommended three years ago to merge the two wikis together. It didn't happen but could shortly. This wiki's more active and looks a little better since we never got around to sprucing up the other one. I'd also like to get rid of all the pages that have that attribution notice on them.

To prevent that same attribution notice from having to be put on pages here, I will start deleting pages that I can verify were copied from another wiki and the person that copied it doesn't say so.

There is now a help page for Copying from other wikis, but here's the gist:


 * 1) Don't copy if you don't have to. Write it yourself.
 * 2) If you do copy, you have to say so in the Edit Summary box.

Help make this wiki be different. Avoid just copying from other wikis. Write your own descriptions of characters and the stories they appear in.