Topic on User talk:Pen498

Copyright Violation

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Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

I have just deleted the page you created, Nice, Mean, and In-Between, because it was a simple cut-and-paste of the page of the same name 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.

I will also note that the page you created was not just a cut-and-paste of the original at TV Tropes, but a simple copy of the page as it is displayed in a browser -- as a result it was completely devoid of any markup, so it rendered here as a massive Wall of Text.

Further, it was a trope entry, and assuming the best motives for your page creation, we have our own equivalent to YKTTW where we create and nurture trope candidates until they are ready to launch. It's called the Trope Workshop, and you can reach it by clicking the link I just embedded there, or through the menu on the left-hand edge of every page, in the "Troping Utilities" section. If you really feel strongly about ATT having this trope, you are free to recreate the page completely in your own words in the Trope Workshop, if you care to.

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

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.

It is, however, sadly necessary to inform you that by the guidelines on that page, you are the recipient of a formal warning. Further attempts at copyright violation will be met with a temp ban.

Please reply to this message so we know we've reached you. Thanks.

-- Looney Toons, admin

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