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Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

@BeatDrop:

However, the new page you created -- Space Dandy -- was a problem, on two fronts.

Firstly, it was missing some of the markup necessary for properly integrating it into the wiki -- while you did have the {{work}} template at the top of the page, it was missing category markup (making it almost unfindable).

Secondly, and far more importantly, your page was a word-for-word copy of an existing page at TV Tropes. This is copyright violation -- TV Tropes and All The Tropes have different Creative Commons licenses, and as a result we cannot legally use TVT content from after July 2012. Unless you were the only person to ever work on that page and can grant us a license to its entire content, it cannot be used here. Consequently it has been deleted in order to protect the wiki from legal liability.

You are free to recreate the page completely in your own words, if you care to.

Before you do, though, we would recommend that you review the following pages that you may find helpful:

If you are planning on creating any other entire pages any time soon, we strongly recommend that for anything that's not a trope you use the Page Creator (which can be found in the menu along the left edge of every page, as the first item under "Troping Utilities"). Using the page creator will also start you with a skeleton page with all the necessary markup to make it look and work like a proper ATT page. It will also gain you credit with the staff, who won't have to go in and fix your pages after you think you're done.

For tropes, we have an equivalent to YKTTW called the Trope Workshop, a link to which can be found in the same location as that for the Page Creator.

If you plan on creating more pages, we also suggest that you read any of the following which are appropriate:

Finally we strongly recommend that you read How We Do Bans Around Here. This isn't a threat -- this is the wiki policy strictly controlling how and when user bans can be applied by an Admin. We want you to be aware that unlike TVT, we do not ban users on whims or because we're cranky -- and that you know what we do ban people for, and what it takes, so you can avoid future problems.

If you could please reply to this message so we know we've reached you. Thanks.

-- Looney Toons, admin

CC: @Labster, @Robkelk, @QuestionableSanity, @Derivative, @SelfCloak, @GethN7