Topic on User talk:Iloveicecream

The first hint that we could not trust this user not to blatantly plagiarize.

Because there were multiple passages copied word-for-word from TV Tropes' page for Enchanted, and in a few cases you actually changed our existing entries to become copies of TVT's text. In case you have not come across it elsewhere on the wiki, copying content directly from TV Tropes is illegal and threatens the long-term survival of the wiki. TVT and ATT have incompatible Creative Commons licenses, and content cannot be shared between them without the express permission of every person who ever wrote or edited that content. Please read our Copyright policy for the full details on what you can and cannot do.

Also due to the scope of the copyright violation, this has now become a formal warning per How We Do Bans Around Here. Further copyright violations will result in a temporary ban per the first point under "Grounds for a warning on the first occurrence and a tempban on a repeated occurrence".

You are required to reply in this thread that you have read the policies and pages in question and understand what they mean. Failure to reply is also grounds for temporary ban, in this case a non-punitive block that will be lifted as soon as you reply. It is in your interests to reply.

-- Looney Toons, admin

@Labster @Looney Toons @GethN7 @Robkelk @QuestionableSanity @Derivative @SelfCloak

Ping to ensure you are aware of this post: @Iloveicecream

It has been just a bit under twenty-four hours since the request that you reply in this thread was made, and you have edited a page in that time, demonstrating that you have been on the wiki. I will repeat that failure to reply as requested is grounds for temporary, non-punitive ban that will only be lifted when you do finally reply.

If you do not respond within the next twenty-four hours, you will receive a tempban.

Again, it is in your best interests to reply.

-- Looney Toons, admin

@Labster @Looney Toons @GethN7 @Robkelk @QuestionableSanity @Derivative @SelfCloak @Iloveicecream

I don’t recall copying and pasting.

I don’t recall copying and pasting.

I don’t recall copying and pasting.

I'm sorry, but that's simply not believable, not when the tropelist in your submitted edit was a word-for-word copy of that on the equivalent page at TV Tropes, even going so far as to change existing tropes to match the form they now have at TVT, ten years after we forked for them. This is not coincidence. This is not accident. This is copying the whole damned thing, changing it all to our markup, and pasting it in.

Did you read our Copyright policy? Did you read How We Do Bans Around Here? Do you understand them? Do you understand that copyright is serious business here and that the next time you plagiarize something from TVT you will receive a ban?

-- Looney Toons, admin

@Labster @Looney Toons @GethN7 @Robkelk @QuestionableSanity @Derivative @SelfCloak