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Hey all, big fan of the site. I just wanted to let all of you who work so hard on this site that someone is using wookiepedia articles and not citing. Since I couldnt post a link...the site is swtorstrategies.com. It looks like all of their lore pages are taken directly from here.
Infact it may very well be all of their lore pieces are stolen from you guys. And I do mean stolen. If you look at the top of each article is says "Author: mmorpgguide"
I just wanted to let you guys know because now two articles have made it to the front page of digg. —Unsigned comment by GreenerJedi (talk • contribs).
Links:
- Home page
- Sample article (copied from Kel Dor)
—Master Jonathan(Jedi Council Chambers) 03:58, April 16, 2010 (UTC)
- Yeah, not only does Wookieepedia need to be cited as the source, but the history page of every article they take content from needs to be linked to in order to meet the guidelines of CC-BY-SA 3.0. As for the "Author: mmorpgguide" part, though, I'd assume good faith on that one. That's just what their blog website's software does when someone posts a blog entry. I don't think it's meant to suggest that they actually wrote the entire thing. =) - Brandon Rhea (talk) 04:16, April 16, 2010 (UTC)
- I sent an e-mail to the contact address. We'll see how it goes from here. --Imperialles 16:00, April 19, 2010 (UTC)
- OK, it appears that the sample article I linked above now says, "This article uses material from the "Kel Dor" article on the Star Wars wiki at Wikia and is licensed, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.", which appears to fulfill the requirements of CC-by-sa. I didn't check any other articles, though. —Master Jonathan(Jedi Council Chambers) 22:10, April 19, 2010 (UTC)
- Technically the history page would need to be linked to in order to fully and properly attribute the authors (i.e. everyone who has edited the article), but it's not really a big deal if you guys don't want to make an issue out of it. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 15:10, April 20, 2010 (UTC)
- OK, it appears that the sample article I linked above now says, "This article uses material from the "Kel Dor" article on the Star Wars wiki at Wikia and is licensed, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.", which appears to fulfill the requirements of CC-by-sa. I didn't check any other articles, though. —Master Jonathan(Jedi Council Chambers) 22:10, April 19, 2010 (UTC)
- I sent an e-mail to the contact address. We'll see how it goes from here. --Imperialles 16:00, April 19, 2010 (UTC)
- THAT BEING SAID, I'm curious to know if anything licensing-wise came up when Lucasfilm used elements from the Wookieepedia article as part of the background aurebesh of Trench's ship for Cat and Mouse. Taral, Dark Lord of the Sith -Just shy, not antisocial: You can talk to me!- 19:16, April 21, 2010 (UTC)
- Uh, what? --Imperialles 19:23, April 21, 2010 (UTC)
- Referring to this. Cull Tremayne 04:34, April 22, 2010 (UTC)
- Right, well, we tend to look the other way when Lucasfilm pulls stuff like this. Seeing as they own the Star Wars license on which our entire site is based, and all that. --Imperialles 00:53, April 23, 2010 (UTC)
- Haha, well you can't claim they didn't reference us. It's got the [1]. Maybe we just can't see the ship's computer's references section :) —Xwing328(Talk) 05:24, April 23, 2010 (UTC)
- Referring to this. Cull Tremayne 04:34, April 22, 2010 (UTC)
- Uh, what? --Imperialles 19:23, April 21, 2010 (UTC)