Thread:Mai Is Me/@comment-4694083-20200628063007

LuciaTauriel wrote: Good Afternoon Nix,

I am one of the editors at RanchStory and it has come to our attention that content from our site has been used again without our permission, which is very disappointing. The user who has done so this time is User:Mai_is_Me, and they have taken directly from many of our pages. Attached to this post, you will find detailed evidence of the theft. As I am the one who painstakingly handcut the portraits and built the tables from scratch, I'm honestly livid. We know that you understand the hard work that goes into creating a Wiki, and we are positive you would not like your hard work to be copied in such a manner. When this has happened before, you were very responsive with us and informed all edititors that this kind of behaviour was okay. We hope that we will be ble to work together again to solve this.

Gotts' Page:

Firstly, our Gotts' page . In regards to Gotts, the images in question are: IMG 1 ,  IMG 2 , IMG 3 .

Here is how we know that the Gotts' images are ours: 1. A BIN comparison of the files reveals that they are the same file. 2. The image shares all of the imperfections from when I editted the image.

Tables: Secondly, it's come to our attention that User:Mai_is_Me has taken our table design and used it on your Wikia. The evidence that there were different plans for this table can be seen in this edit and this edit . An image is attached of our original table design and our updated one. I have included side by side comparisons of each. Our tables on our events page show case other tables that are even more similar to the ones she has used. The similarities between the tables that User:Mai_is_Me has posted and our RanchStory ones are unmistakable.

Evidence of current theft:

Gotts':







Hi Mai,

I'm posting a quoted thread left on my talk page. We discussed content poaching for the new Friends of Mineral Town release back in December, and I also re-addressed this issue back in February as well with Ranch Story users. Please read the thread and respond.

It sounds like they have done a lot of painstaking and difficult work with both the images and tables and are upset that they have been used here, without getting consent... which is understandable. If this is indeed their work that we are using here, it should be removed. There haven't been any references provided as to where the information is coming from on the new SoS pages.  