User talk:HystericalParoxysmMTS
Welcome[edit source]
Hi, welcome to The Sims Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the File talk:300px-PinkDiamond03.jpg page.
Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- A morris (Talk) 13:37, 5 December 2009
"Stolen" content?[edit source]
Look dude, just because your less-than-popular Sims wiki has the same content as us, doesn't mean it is yours. For all we know you could simply be copying US and taking credit for it. Please, either verify your actions or cease immediately.
Check the dates[edit source]
Go look at the dates of when that stuff was added and you'll see that it was on SimsWiki.info first. Some of the pictures I removed are ones I took myself in-game. I don't care who's more popular (Sims Wiki is attached to Mod The Sims which is plenty popular) - and I don't care if you take just info like stats and values as long as you format it yourself, but taking pictures and whole sentences or paragraphs worth of text is not okay. HystericalParoxysmMTS 14:14, December 5, 2009 (UTC)
- All contributions to wikis are considered to be released under public domain i.e. content that is not owned or controlled by anyone and available for anyone to use freely for any purpose. Images where no free one exists should be licensed under fair use. --a_morris (talk) 15:10, December 5, 2009 (UTC)
- Except that it's not public domain, it's an Attribution license. No attribution was given on any of the stuff taken from SimsWiki.info so the credits need to be fixed or the stuff needs to be removed. HystericalParoxysmMTS 15:31, December 5, 2009 (UTC)
Fair enough[edit source]
You make a good point. Thank you for explaining. Plagiarism is no small matter, and it should not be tolerated. In my posts I either use pics from my friend's fansite or pics I've taken myself.