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Plagiarism is a very serious offence, violative of not just local rules but also Fandom's ToU. Original copy is vital not just for the integrity of the project but also for SEO reasons. Copying text from another site to Tardis means that our ranking in organic search engines goes down, and therefore fewer people visit. And it's always possible that your [[#Blocked for plagiarism|several acts of plagiarism]] could have led to any number of takedown notices from the copyright holders. In other words, plagiarism does ''demonstrable'' harm to the project. It's not like failing to use British English or emplacing too many images on a page. It's a Big Damn Deal. | Plagiarism is a very serious offence, violative of not just local rules but also Fandom's ToU. Original copy is vital not just for the integrity of the project but also for SEO reasons. Copying text from another site to Tardis means that our ranking in organic search engines goes down, and therefore fewer people visit. And it's always possible that your [[#Blocked for plagiarism|several acts of plagiarism]] could have led to any number of takedown notices from the copyright holders. In other words, plagiarism does ''demonstrable'' harm to the project. It's not like failing to use British English or emplacing too many images on a page. It's a Big Damn Deal. | ||
That's why a permanent ban would have been justified at the time, but, after discussion, I pulled it back to just 5 months. Had the original proposed ban gone through, you probably wouldn't have been able to | That's why a permanent ban would have been justified at the time, but, after discussion, I pulled it back to just 5 months. Had the original proposed ban gone through, you probably wouldn't have been able to have continued editing here enough to have been proposed as an admin today. | ||
Still, we've never allowed someone with such a lengthy ban consequent to Fandom ToU violations to become an admin, and it would be inappropriate to do so now. | Still, we've never allowed someone with such a lengthy ban consequent to Fandom ToU violations to become an admin, and it would be inappropriate to do so now. | ||
I hope that this doesn't discourage you from editing here. You've done good work in the couple of years that followed. And in that sense I'm glad my argument for a lesser ban won the day. But, just as in real life, plagiarism has long-lasting effects upon the people that commit it. The most central of these is that, with great regret, I can't in good conscience allow you to be considered for an adminship. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 18:14: Sat 25 Apr 2020</span> | I hope that this doesn't discourage you from editing here. You've done good work in the couple of years that followed. And in that sense I'm glad my argument for a lesser ban won the day. But, just as in real life, plagiarism has long-lasting effects upon the people that commit it. The most central of these is that, with great regret, I can't in good conscience allow you to be considered for an adminship. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 18:14: Sat 25 Apr 2020</span> | ||
