Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24530269-20180626095406

Alright peeps. It has come to this.

It has come to my attention that yet another bio here has been straight-up ripped from DeviantArt; this time, a Bomberman analysis. This is like, the millionth copied bio so far. I've had enough.

How would you people feel if your hard work was stolen with no credit, as if the thief wrote it themselves?

With this reveal I've had it. With my temporary position as Head Bureaucrat Duumvirate along with Ghost, I've decided to think of a new rule.

I will now start banning people for not giving credit on copied bios, shall they have five offences on this guideline. I will also remove bios of which there is no evidence you had permission to use.

With that, here's another idea I had: To seperate used bios from the Fanon DB Info. If you were to copy and paste a DA bio, or heck, ANY bio, than paste it in a seperate header. Like this: ==Death Battle Info (From )==

You are required and obliged to post a screenshot just before the bio (e.g. Background) that confirms that you have permission to use the bio; id est, a screenshot of the author giving their greenlight for you to use it. No permission? No use. No permission, but use anyways? Warning. Repeat? Banhammer.

As much as this sounds over the top and probably paints me off like some unlikeable dictator, there's a reason why I'm so strict on this and kinda pissed, because certain members of this community commit plagiarism, claiming others' hard work as their own by not giving credit.

Also, simply because you can use external bios with consent doesn't mean you should. It's allowed, but by preference, write the bio yourself. Doing it yourself is always better on this site than using someone else's project. Be creative.

Either this above, or Option 2. We make our own bio that anyone can contribute to, and reserve a section at the bottom of the page with links to external bios.

I'll let you guys decide on what option we should go with, but either way this has to stop. Stop stealing others' hard work. Be creative and write it yourself. Ask others for help on obscure feats or feats that you can't find or haven't heard of. Collaborate. Be creative. Don't steal.

Alright, I got this off my chest. Kinda cooled down now. As much as bio theft is far rarer now than in the past, I still want to adress it, for there's probably still a bunch of pasted bios on this wiki; wether it be Bios or Wiz-Boomstick Analysises. And because there's always the chance new users join and copy-paste as well.

Wither out.

What anti-plagiarism strategy should we go with? Option 1 (pasting the bios of which you have permission to use in new section with links to the source and evidence / proof of the greenlight) Option 2 (a new section with hyperlinks to external bios)  