Board Thread:Wiki Management/@comment-5035900-20170120025856/@comment-26221704-20170217011305

NOTE; Just gonna revive this thread but a situation like this sprang up on the RVR and I'm moving the comments about that to here and deleting them from the RVR but they provide insight to this.

Der (Me): Squirrel Girl vs Batman was stated to have extreme copy and paste, however said copy and pasted info omes from the info we have on their pages here and the copypaste bio rule only applies to Official DB and DA DB bios. There's nothing as of yet that says copy and pasting info from character pages here isn't allowed.

Now what I'm trying to really say is: Should we add a "No Copying & Pasting Info from Character Pages on this Wiki" or no?

Personally for me I'm not sure because on one hand what's the point of even putting info on character pages here if we can't use them but then again just copy and pasting that info is just generally really lazy in most scenarios. What do you guys think?

GA (GalacticAttorney): I say yes, we should disallow raw copy and paste from character bios here. To quote the Rules & Guidelines themselves, "We know it's hard to write these things, but don't plagiarize. Creativity is the key." Obviously, that quote is from a rule talking about plagiarizing stuff from DeviantArt and other medias, but I think the "Creativity is the key" part is what's important here. We don't want our content to be represented by faceless, soulless lists of information about combatants; We want them to have humor and personality and creativity behind them.

Der: @GA, true but having creative freedom/liberty also means they can just put down a list of info if they wanted too, it's not a rule that you have to put humor, personality, etc when creating bios (not yet maybe). The way I see it, bios are meant for presenting information about a character, weapon, etc and optionally can have a creative twist to them be it with personalities or otherwise. And again, why have info on character pages if it cannot be utilized.

GA: @Derp Fair enough, but they could at least add host commentary to the raw lists like how Pre-Fights are structured on DeviantArt if they're going to rip the information straight off the page. It just seems lazy to copy and paste the info and just say "yup all done looks good to me." I'm all for creative freedom, but there needs to be a line between creative freedom and allowing users to be lazy with their creations. It's like the word limit in a way - it exists to ensure the content here meets a certain level of quality and to prevent laziness. If the writer doesn't want to be bothered to write out witty and interesting pre-fight analyses, they can just write OMMs or DBXs where they don't have to go to that length. That's just me tho.

Der: @GA, I get that and that's the very reason why I stopped doing DBs and am thinking of shifting my ideas to DBXs on DA. But to me, to punish (more specifically delete a whole fight) those for just copying/making a list of research notes from the info section of character pages whose purposes are to provide info is kinda weird. I'm not advocating the legitimacy of laziness and/or plagiarism but rather considering the context and the punishment given with it we should definitely change something. Also while one would be lazy for copying the info from these pages they can still greatly consider this research info leading to a proper conclusion.

What I see as a good resolve is y'know not delete fights for poor/improper/plagiarized research anymore but instead probably just remove said research and keep everything else not poor/improper/plagiarized then notify the owners of the fight to improve their efforts. Not the best idea but it's what I could come up with first.