The Copy-Paste Cleanup Thread

Though GethN's offer of keeping but attributing the content, TV Tropes itself strives for original content, so I imagine the page will be cut.

Generally, I agree. We don't want exact copies of articles on other sites regardless of any copyright or licensing issues that may pertain.

Edited to add: Our administrators, one of whom is a lawyer, have worked out their legal concerns about the Wikia tropes site, so it is no longer accurate, if it ever was, to accuse them of stealing content.

Edited by Fighteer on Jul 11th 2018 at 7:40:07 AM

This was generally the attitude in the Fast Eddie days. I was unaware things had changed since then; I apologize.

With that said, I'm going to just put the page in question on the Cut List: again, it adds practically nothing that our pages on Fallout 3 and New Vegas already cover or could cover.

Thanks for clarifying this, Fighteer, your willingness to do so proves you are a man of honor, and on behalf of my community, thank you for defending us from the undeserved stain of such proven false assumptions.

That's perfectly reasonable, I would not complain so long as my copyright is honored in any event, and I appreciate your apology with gratitude.

Much more reasonable than expecting the Cut List to actually function and display submitted reasons for cutting, leading to the cut requests being declined, apparently.

Again, this goes on the list of stuff that will be addressed at a point when everything is functioning.

I understand, our site has had technical difficulties of late as well.

In any event, I'm satisfied the matter will be handled properly, and I will trust in the integrity and goodwill of the community here to fix things when it's possible to do so.

It has been around two weeks now that the issue of this page has not been resolved, but my offer still stands to rerelease all my work here under CC BY NC SA so as to avoid having to remove content here, I just ask this be noted in the edit reasons or on the page itself with a link back to the original version on my own wiki for attribution purpose if the page is not outright deleted.

I've put it on the Cut List once again. That's all I can do for now, we'll see what happens.

That's fine by me, just glad to see this is resolved.

Characters.Yandere Simulator's subpages still have the "copying character descriptions straight from game" possible problem.

Edited by Malady on Aug 19th 2018 at 7:16:13 AM

The work page description for Anna and the Apocalypse is taken from the film's official synopsis.

The descriptions on Characters.White Noise are copied from the notes on the official character page. The page was started by Shaorai217, though I admit I also copied and pasted descriptions when I added more characters to the page, along with a note saying where they came from and a link to the page. Sorry if this was wrong.

Edited by rjd1922 on Sep 18th 2018 at 4:19:54 AM

Literature.A Little Life 's description was mostly copy-pasted from the back cover of the book. After removing it, there's very little description left; can someone who has read the book (I haven't) expand a bit?

Passenger of Shit's description is lifted from his site. I'll try to change it.

The description of Scum is the same Wikipedia's, I'll try to do some changes

Edited by jormis29 on Sep 27th 2018 at 5:16:08 AM

A good chunk of the description on Call of Cthulhu: The Official Video Game was copy-pasted from the official website for the game. I've revised the description so that it isn't just a copy-paste anymore.

Edited by dragonfire5000 on Oct 26th 2018 at 4:28:15 AM

ATT thread

Specifically, ATT thread about plagiarism in fanfic rec pages.

Characters.Period Cube states that its bios are all taken from the official website

Though an attempt to check just how much was copied didn't turn up anything since the link to the website leads to the publisher's website as it appears it was taken down and a Wayback Machine search didn't really work either.

Hanzawa Naoki is copied from the first paragraphs of Wikipedia

~petewarrior, care to come in to discuss the Hanzawa Naoki page?

Oh hello, OK I’ll fix it.

Everybody Loves Large Chests's description is largely copy/pasted from its official (?) site: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/8894/everybody-loves-large-chests

I don't know enough about the work to rewrite it, but removing it would leave the description really bare.

Astro Plan outright admits that the description is copied from Wikipedia. However, this is intentional. Just like the show Astro Plan copies from other shows, the Astro Plan TV Tropes page copies from other internet pages. Should we keep the Wikipedia summary due to it being a clever joke?

No. Because A). Wikipedia could sue TvTropes over using the exact same words, & B). It is impossible to make a work without using material stolen from other people. Even if that does not count, then, well, we could easily just write recaps for mockbusters, according to that logic. Just find someone who made a plot summery of the mockbuster we are listing the tropes for, copy & paste their plot review, credit the source who made it, then BAM! review done.

Edited by Playing_with_boy on Jan 4th 2019 at 11:15:13 AM