User talk:WalrusGuy

We are not allowed to take TVT pages post-2012 as our own, which the CM/Max Steele page is from. That would be a violation of copyright law, which we are not in a position to violate.

To understand more about our situation on that matter, please refer to our page on Copyrights before you create any more pages, especially the section on using content from TV Tropes.

If you can completely re-write the page and add in new examples, it should pass, however as is, will not. You are not the first, or the first thousandth user to make this mistake, just please don't make it in the future.

@Robkelk@Looney Toons@GethN7

I actually copied it from wiki (check the wiki version of All The Tropes), and I didn't even know Max Steel had a page on TV Tropes.

And if you look at the content I removed from the Western Animation page (and you might have noticed I also added a few new entries), you'll notice that the entries on the page are the exact same ones I removed from the Western Animation page.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Monster/MaxSteel

It looks too similar, however I tagged in other admins for second opinions, so they can help establish a consensus.

That's mainly because most of those characters were listed on the Western Animation page before getting moved, but some of the entries were different. For example, here's Professor Mortum's TV Tropes entry;

• Team Turbo & Team Turbo: Fusion-Tek: Professor Mortum is perhaps the most viscerally horrifying foe that Max Steel has ever faced, despite his sick sense of humor. Once a plain mortal man obsessed with immortality, Mortum invades N-Tek and tortures its hundreds of agents over the course of several hours to get his hands on the reality-altering Connect-Tek device so as to become a god. After being defeated and killed, Mortum uses the Connect-Tek to rise from the grave as a "techno zombie", beginning to feed on the minds of first his own minions, then all citizens of Copper Canyon, turning them into his mindless, monstrous slaves. Attempting to add his own nephew to his victim count, Mortum kills a variety of soldiers that try to combat him before turning the entire world into a wasteland that slowly turns the rest of humankind into his slaves, with Mortum giddily forcing Max Steel to watch as his friends and loved ones are turned and brags that he's going to rule over the apocalyptic Earth as supreme for all eternity.

And here's his All The Tropes entry, which is the one I transferred to the new page;

• • Professor Mortum, the main villain of the films Team Turbo and Team Turbo: Fusion-Tek, sticks out among Max Steel's villains as a truly horrifying monster. Originally a genius scientist with a great fear of death, Mortum became obsessed with immortality, and to this end, sought to obtain the Connect-Tek, a powerful N-Tek device that would grant Mortum godlike powers. Capturing hundreds of N-Tek agents, Mortum tortures them all with electricity for information on the Connect-Tek, after which he sics many of Max Steel's other enemies onto his hometown of Copper Canyon, ordering them to destroy everything in sight in their quest to locate him the Connect-Tek. After failing to properly handle the Connect-Tek once getting his hands on it, Mortum is killed, at which point the Connect-Tek replaces his mind, turning Mortum into a whole new brand of monster. Now a techno zombie due to the Connect-Tek, Mortum still retains his original personality, and quickly begins draining the minds of dozens of his own lackies, transforming them into mindless techno zombies that he uses to infect an entire city, draining all of their minds, after which he tries to inflict the same fate on his own nephew. After numerous soldiers are killed in their attempts to stop him, Mortum captures, tortures, and dissects Max's best friend, Steel, before using his powers to infect all of humanity with his techno virus, transforming the Earth into a barren wasteland, after which he reveals his plans to absorb all of humanity's minds into himself, becoming a god and eliminating the "disorder" of human empathy. Quickly graduating from a particularly wicked villain to a full-blown genocidal lunatic between his appearances in the films, Professor Mortum is easily Max Steel's most nightmarish and terrifying villain, despite his sometimes amusing personality.

It looks to me like a sentence-by-sentence rewrite, which we ruled (in another case a few months ago) was still too close to TVT's original text to be legally safe. If WalrusGuy just transplanted the Wikia version (at least that's what I think he means by "the wiki version") then he's not to blame for anything -- but it still isn't legal for us to use and someone should purge it from the Wikia.

So why is it okay for those entries to be listed on the Western Animation page? Looking at the page's edit history, they've been there a long time.

If they postdate the fork, then it's not okay, and they should be removed. There are only a few of us admins, and despite our best efforts we're not able to check every edit to make sure they are not copyright violations. We generally catch the big ones; others may take us a while. Small ones may slip by us, especially since we (or at least I) don't read everything (or anything) on TVT for comparison.

In this case, thank your for pointing out the copyright violations on the Western Animation page.