Talk:Charge Combo

This article is a copy/paste of the Wikitroid Charge Combo article. I expect that an administrator will take care of this. Also, it doesn't look to good when several of your other larger articles are rewrites of Wikitroid articles. ChozoBoy 21:30, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

It will be taken care of. (Also, I hope you don't use that sort of grammar in articles over at wikitroid; it doesn't look "to" good, if you know what I mean ;) ) Garlic Man 21:47, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

In investigating the issue, Charge Combo was found to be in no way a direct copy paste. The articles are simply on the same subject matter, and thus contain the same information. The word choice is completely different. The same goes for the Ing article. While I admit the first sentence appears to be a copy paste (something that needs to be rectified) the rest of the article is it's own. Now, it very well could be a rewrite, but since it's the same subject matter it is very difficult to really tell what the intention is. You can also say this about almost any page we have that is fleshed out that you also have. Zelda Universe has a walkthrough for x game, so does Zelda Dungeon, so does Gamefaqs. They all same the same thing in similar wording, so are they copy pasting eachother, or merely talking about the same thing? I'll look into what we can do about the Ing article, but teh Charge Combo was not a copy paste, sorry. Nathanial Rumphol-Janc 22:20, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

A number of other sentences were left unaltered from the copy/paste (not to mention our article structure). I'm frankly disturbed that MW's founder is attempting to justify the theft of copyrighted material. ChozoBoy 20:21, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

I would like to remind everyone that you are morally and legally obligated under the United States Copyright Act and applicable International Copyright Law to adhere to the guidelines of the CreativeCommons-Attribution-ShareAlike license that protects Wikitroid's content: as required by law, all work that uses text from Wikitroid, either exactly or a derivative of, must link back to the Wikitroid article from which the text originated. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ ChozoBoy 21:42, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Shut the fuck up. Wikitroid didn't invent the concept of writing about Metroid. --71.192.225.140 21:59, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Do you plan on taking legal action against the creators of this wiki, ChozoBoy? If you're running a Wiki, you must believe in the nature of free content - if you're out to defend some sort of copyright, more power to you. I challenge you to destroy you and your wiki's credibility by taking legal action against a startup that provides you with some (much better looking) competition. 98.109.126.170 22:05, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

On the very same site that you just linked "Public Domain — Where the work or any of its elements is in the public domain under applicable law, that status is in no way affected by the license." Any information relating to Metroid is "Public Domain" unless Nintendo deems it otherwise. When these games were made, the information was included in the games and any rewrite of that is allowed at any time. The only content that Wikitroid has copy-write over is any original or creative writings attributed to the site. Under your rules we would not be able to write any articles ever because you would deem them "attributed" from your wiki, which is both false and misleading. Wikis are information sites, you CANNOT copy-write information. The only thing we cannot do is completely and blatantly steal from Wikitroid and we will not be doing that. So go back to your site and please stop hounding Metroid Wiki.

Anon#3: I believe the articles may be considered creative writings. I'm no expert, personally.

Anon#2: The content is free, to an extent, but is also copyrighted. (As described above.) The message was posted on behalf of one of our Bureaucrats, so I don't know exactly what they intend to do. I certainly hope (and expect) the administrators here are able to follow the law, however. So no legal action ought to be necessary.

Anon#1: No, but evidently we perfected it. ChozoBoy 22:16, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Throwing around legal mumbo jumbo? Wikia itself doesn't own copyright over the material the general public creates that is simply telling the facts from a material they do not own copyright over. As in, yes, Wikia owns the rights over it's user pages, community based pages, and theories/fanon. It does not own the text that is simply retelling the facts given to us by another property. Take ZI's walkthrough for Spirit Tracks. It is morally wrong to direct copy paste material - but this article isn't a direct copy paste, even if it seems some sentences may be, but it's not legally wrong under the CC license. What I am simply saying is, we don't support copy paste jobs, but the actual text on 90% of wikia's articles fall under public domain, which is part of the license Wikia uses. I am not saying that I support articles looking similar, but I am dissapointed in seeing your guys reaction. You are at our wiki, complaining about our article, instead of going to your own and making it better. Here, by the end of the day, come back and check out my superior work when I am through with this page. Nathanial Rumphol-Janc 22:31, 13 February 2010 (UTC)