Turns out getting that book was the right call. Basically everything that wasn't stolen from the aforementioned wiki was stolen from Deities and Demigods.
I have removed as much of the offending text as I could find and replaced it with placeholders, with comments indicating what source the removed text was stolen from. If the whim strikes me later, I may come up with original descriptions for some of these deities and—shock! horror!—add some actual tropes to these entries.
The Danse Macabre Codex
I have purchased the Planescape sourcebook On Hallowed Ground. As expected, that wiki that was being plagiarized was itself plagiarizing from this book. More text removals incoming.
The Danse Macabre Codex
...Un-fucking-believable. I've discovered yet another source that was plagiarized. The remaining text for Geb was pilfered from this blog
.
Was there even a single line of text on this page that wasn't stolen from somewhere before I started revising it?
Edited by SullenFrog The Danse Macabre Codex
Fuck it. At this point, I am just going to operate under the assumption that everything was plagiarized from one of these four sources, if not others.
EDIT: I took a scythe to the Central American Pantheon folder. Apart from the stuff I wrote for Tlaloc, Huhueteotl and Camazotz over the previous few days, and apart from the three heroes (can't tell where their stuff came from), all plagiarized text has been removed from that folder.
Edited by SullenFrog The Danse Macabre Codex
I have removed most plagiarized text from the Babylonian, Central American, Celtic, and Chinese Pantheon folders. There are a few entries left whose sources I have not yet found/am not willing to buy at this time, so they avoid the axe for now.
The Danse Macabre Codex
I’m pretty sure the other real-world gods page was completely plagiarized as well. It has the same walls of text and was made by the same user.
I am not sure what to do with the three heroes in the Central American Pantheon folder. They're historical figures, for one thing, so I don't feel comfortable ascribing tropes and character alignments to real people. There also just isn't a lot of information on them in the sourcebook where they appear, and what is there is broadly similar; they're all priest-kings, they're all multiclassed as fighters and priests, they were all well-respected.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what should be done with them? Flesh them out individually? Lump them together in a single "Aztec heroes" entry? Get rid of them altogether, since they aren't gods?
The Danse Macabre Codex
The pages containing these real-world pantheons were cut a year ago for a reason. Their entries are nothing but walls of text with no tropes beyond their respective Character Alignments, if that.
The Danse Macabre Codex Hide / Show Replies
Yeah, I wouldn't object to creating pages for these pantheons in and of themselves, if tropes could be gathered to actually be put in the entries, but if they're not going to be anything more than three pages' worth of text walls with no trope entries we don't need them to be here.
So. Not only does this page contain huge walls of text with no tropes, said text is heavily plagiarized from another wiki
.
I have begun replacing the offending text with placeholders. It may take me a few days to remove it all. So far, I have cleaned up all I could find from the Babylonian and Celtic pantheons. I also went and bought a copy of the 1st edition Deities and Demigods sourcebook to make sure nobody has been plagiarizing that, too.
The Danse Macabre Codex Hide / Show Replies