The Copy-Paste Cleanup Thread

I think the Miraculous fandom might not know that we don't copy/paste fic summaries, cause FanficRecs.Miraculous Ladybug just got two of them...

When we get time, we're gonna have to go through and purge all the copied text. there's so much of it...

I noticed the Germans Love David Hasselhoff example on YMMV.Elemental 2023 is copy-pasted from the film's Wikipedia page. How should we go about this?

Edited by Tylerbear12 on Jul 14th 2023 at 12:19:08 PM

(ignore this)

Edited by RobertTYL on Jul 26th 2023 at 12:03:38 AM

All the recap pages for Secret Invasion (2023) have one sentence episode descriptions that are just the descriptions taken from Disney+.

Just removed the first two paragraphs from Medicated's description, because they were copied from the fic itself.

all descriptions wiped, and also sent the offender a notifier

The bulk of the text on the Alternate Continuity example on The Tom and Jerry Show (2014) was changed a few years ago to be plagiarized from a description of the show's plot on Wikipedia. The notice has been added to the page and a notifier has been sent.

The work description for VideoGame.Bat Boy matches those found for the game on various digital storefronts, such as the Nintendo eShop and Xbox store.

The description for VideoGame.Magic Twins is at least partially plagiarized. The first paragraph is identical to the first paragraph on Steam and the developers' website, but with the last sentence removed.

I might rectify some of this soon but a lot of synopses on Recap.Centaurworld are copy-pasted from the official synopses.

Edited by mightymewtron on Aug 21st 2023 at 2:47:00 PM

I've noticed Land of the Lustrous's description STILL wasn't altered, so I've given it a shot.

I created a trope page for The Nameless City a few days ago, and since I had been struggling with how to describe the premise/plot of the novel without a lengthy explanation of the comic's lore, I ended up just copying the synopsis on the back of the first book without thinking about whether such a thing was allowed. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions for ways I can summarize the series so that it's not an exact copy of the official synopsis?

Edit: I did some brainstorming and came up with a more original summary, but if there's any part of it that still needs work, please feel free to let me know.

Edited by EmperorMax2019 on Sep 12th 2023 at 4:04:59 AM

Fate/Samurai Remnant is out and several other Fandom pages have unleashed the identities of the new Servants. However, I'm not sure if that can be called 'legitimate source'. I tried to add the Servant identities, then I realized this topic exists.

Sooo... still too early? Or they can be added now? Just to be safe, I decided to just undo my own edits for the time being. (The commented paragraph led me here)

Edited by ChrisX on Sep 29th 2023 at 4:20:36 PM

While browsing through random works, I've noticed that the film Ang Babae Sa Septic Tank has its main description consist of parts directly taken from the work's Wikipedia page, word for word.

Not sure if this is relevant or should be mentioned, but...

Gamicus fandom have a sub-section dedicated to Eastern Exorcist, as seen here, whose images (and small parts of the text) are "borrowed" from Characters.Eastern Exorcist (!!!)

Just to clarify, I'm the one who made the Characters sub-page, wrote the articles and trope list, and took the screenshots (check the dates of the edit history) - in any case, gamicus is the one copying stuff from us, not the way around

Edited by RobertTYL on Oct 17th 2023 at 9:22:33 PM

I brought up MadMaze a while back, but it never got addressed. Actually comparing to the Wikipedia article, it looks like only the first paragraph of our page was actually copied (and then slightly rephrased, but still identifiably plagiarism), so I removed that for now.

It looks like the description of Legend of Himiko was plagiarized from Wikipedia twelve years ago (Archived edit history of our page; compare with the Wikipedia page in 2006), the adding troper was banned years ago.

The Fanfic.Fell Horizon description is a complete plagiarism of the AO3 description:

Edited by SoyValdo7 on Nov 15th 2023 at 3:09:42 AM

Would like a second opinion.

• omegasaint:

• Wikipedia:

Someone else has flagged this on the Haiku clean-up thread: Haiku.Final Fantasy XIV

It openly links to another website which had a fanwork haiku contest, which is where the haikus come from. No permission to repost is cited.

I just wanted to double-check that the page can be cut for these reasons. It's certainly copy-pasting someone else's work, but it's also fanwork, so I don't know where we stand on that. My instinct was to suggest removing it, since I think it's still a form of plagiarising, but I wanted to double-check.

Edited by Wyldchyld on Nov 25th 2023 at 2:45:35 PM

Shadow of the Conqueror's description is taken wholecloth from the book jacket.

Not sure what to do since I'm not reading that and I doubt anyone else wants to either.

Just replace it with the placeholder text.

If no-one objects, I'll send the page to the cut list for containing copy-paste information from other sites.

With the reasons you mentioned, I support cutting it.

On the page for El Chavo Animado, the entries under Bowdlerise and Cultural Translation seem to be copied verbatim from an an older version of the Wikipedia page for the show. While the version on our page is shorter and missing a bunch of stuff from the Wikipedia edit version, what is found here is basically identical, complete with grammatical errors copied verbatim.