The Copy-Paste Cleanup Thread

Thanks.

Edit: That feeling you get when you accidentally hit a second key as you send the post but don't know what that key was, realise all the posts in the thread have vanished... and then realise that you're the page topper on a new page and don't have the power to delete other people's posts anyway.

edited 1st Jan '18 7:25:41 PM by Wyldchyld

Film.The Greatest Show On Earth has some information transferred from Wikipedia.

Many games in the Multiplayer Online Battle Arena genre suffer from copied-and-pasted character bios. I've already helped fix Characters.Dota 2, but these games still have descriptions taken directly from official sources.

• Characters.Smite
• Characters.Awesomenauts
• Characters.Heroes Of Newerth
• Characters.Strife
• Characters.Vainglory (On certain characters only, others have only a short sentence descriptor which seems to be original)

In the Western Animation section of Vile Villain, Saccharine Show, the entry for the Emperor of the Night from a Pinocchio film is a copy paste of his Complete Monster entry. That should be fixed.

Groove Squad is currently a copy of the Wikipedia description with no tropes

I took it to the crash rescue thread, because they're better suited for dealing with the other issues around that page.

edited 16th Jan '18 6:32:28 AM by TotemicHero

The description of Camberwick Green is the same as Wikipedia's

Since this is recent, I'll page ~Tropers/{{793ws}} to come in to answer for copy-pasting the description from Wikipedia on both the above mentioned WesternAnimation.Camberwick Green as well as a partial case of the same on Literature.My Thomas Story Library.

If they don't show, well...

Edit: Blast, the paging markup didn't work. Hold on.

edited 28th Jan '18 9:49:43 PM by TotemicHero

~Tropers/793ws - Please see the above.

Okay, so now we know paging doesn't work if you start your troper name with a number. Time for a PM.

edited 28th Jan '18 9:51:09 PM by TotemicHero

I thought that someone, somewhere would come up with an original description for the show someday.

That's not how this works. When you make a work's page, you're expected to come up with the original description yourself. Copy-pasting from other sources is plagiarism, which is a big no-no. (Doubly so for doing it from Wikipedia pages, which can get the site into actual legal trouble.)

Please try and rewrite the descriptions on the pages noted above to be original as soon as you are able (preferably within the next few weeks; otherwise, me or some other troper will have to do it). And please don't do it again.

Repairman Jack claims to have been copied from wikipedia. It's also a quite old page. I believe it was part of the namespace migration, so there's probably no way to tell who was responsible at this point. I can nuke the description, but I don't really know the work, so I can't provide more than a sentence or two as replacement....

Literature.Repairman Jack is now fixed.

Seeing as they have not been fixed as of this point, Literature.My Thomas Story Library and WesternAnimation.Camberwick Green are now on the list.

Working backwards a bit since I know I skipped some stuff (my apologies):

Film.The Greatest Show On Earth has been cleaned up.

~Zuxtron: I'll need some time to figure out how to best tackle the MOBA problem, so I'll get back to that one later. (We may need a dedicated thread to clean up character sheets in general.)

~Vampireandthen: This thread is not for examples ripping off of examples on other parts of the wiki. I'm not saying that doesn't need fixing (it certainly does), but this isn't the thread for that.

Finally, since WesternAnimation.Groove Squad still has a mostly Wikipedia-based description, I'm adding it to the list and paging ~TMNT Fan Girl to come in and chat.

I've done something similar for Dota 2 in the past. It took a long time, but I, along with some other users, managed to rewrite every hero's lore in our own words. I made a short-term project for it, so perhaps we should do the same for these games, either one thread per game, or a single megathread for all of them.

The only one of the games I've listed which I'm familiar enough with to help is Awesomenauts, so I may work on that one next.

Creator.Rene Auberjonois is the first part of the Wikipedia page

Also the description of ComicBook.Tomb Raider is taken from the wiki article

edited 5th Feb '18 3:09:23 AM by jormis29

Calling in ~Charles Phipps and ~The Troper 1 to discuss these pages respectively.

I can fix the comic book section of Tomb Raider better.

Edit: I created a new write up for it.

edited 5th Feb '18 4:12:30 PM by CharlesPhipps

Well, that "write-up" confirmed what I suspected from your post and your edit history - you have some grammar issues. (Plus you have the added problem of being a writer creating YMMV pages for your own works, which is against site rules.)

Sigh...

I apologize for the mistakes and promise they won't happen again In the case of the grammar issues, I admit I was doing it quickly.

I'll correct it now.

Edit:

Yikes. Those were some pathetic typos. I really shouldn't do this while watching the Bachelor.

edited 5th Feb '18 9:19:36 PM by CharlesPhipps

Alright, but one more thing before we're done...

I noticed you have made a bunch of pages for works you've written (whose YMMV pages I will be cutlisting in the near future, since work creators are not supposed to edit those pages). Can you confirm that you did not copy those descriptions from other sources (website blurbs, book descriptions, and the like)?

1. I understand about the YMMV but could you not cutlist the ones which have had material added by other posters?

2. I did a double check on the other pages I've created and none seem to be a direct lift from the Other Wiki.

Edit:

I've gone through all of the pages I've created and I'm fixing Signal Airship series since I used its blurb.

edited 5th Feb '18 9:57:30 PM by CharlesPhipps

With the exception of the first sentence, the description of Record Of Grancrest War appears to be copied from the Wikipedia page for the series.

Paging ~Mr Terrorist (seriously, a username like that?) to come discuss this.

Ok, i finish rewriting the summary.