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Amonimus
(Sergeant)
11th May, 2024 07:50:28 PM
You should be asking ~Shanwooo444 to fix those. The plagiarism warrants the corresponding Notifier, and recommending fic by using different names is really weird.
Edited by Amonimus TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
bookwormgal
Since: Jan, 2011
12th May, 2024 04:37:50 AM
Thank you. I have never tried to address this issue before and was having trouble locating the recommended course of action.
On the fanfiction recommendation page for Dead Boy Detectives (2024), dozens of fanfics have been added in the last two days (because that's how long the page has existed) by Shanwooo444 which have the summaries copy-and-pasted straight from Archive of Our Own. I changed the only one that I've actually read, but I can't re-summarize the rest of them because I haven't read those fanfics. I've also noticed that all those fanfics being added rapidly have a variety of different names listed as "Recommended by," but a quick glance at the history of the page shows that they were all posted by the same person. So it is definitely just the one person who is copy-and-pasting the exact summaries from Archive of Our Own.
Anyone who is a fan of the show want to swing over there and help edit the ever-growing number of fanfictions being recommended there?