Clarifying T:DON'T COPY
Proposal
As an alternative to the exhaustively lengthy forum opening posts that we've seen lately, I'll keep it brief: Timewalkerauthor has added a number of plot descriptions on Big Finish audio pages – an area where our wiki has historically been lacking. However, they also posted the summaries on their personal blog, and for this reason the summaries have been removed from the website. This was the reason given:
While it is not technically plagiarism, we at this wiki don't want material copied from other sites. We only want original material — why would someone come here to get information they can get somewhere else? We appreciate your contributions, but please don't copy material, even if written by yourself, from other sites.
The problem with this logic is that there are many, many reasons why a user would come here to get information they could find elsewhere, from SEO to indexing to searchability. After all, this whole wiki started as a duplicate of Wikipedia's Doctor Who-related pages, and that never stopped us! This is no reason to remove accurate and properly-formatted information from the wiki. I ask that T:DON'T COPY be edited to specifically reject this reasoning and that Timewalkerauthor's summaries be restored. – n8 (☎) 20:14, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
Discussion
I support this proposal. Pluto2☎ 16:04, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
- This is bizarre reasoning from Shambala especially given that people can copy the wiki at any time, provided that they properly credit. So why would they come to the wiki if they can get it elsewhere? Surely this entails that our licenses used are fundamentally incorrect! I'm baffled as to how this wasn't immediately pointed out, clearly support this proposal. (And, of course, we duplicate a ton of information from elsewhere. Just a bizarre notion.) Najawin ☎ 19:31, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
