Thread:Nixerix/@comment-46148768-20200628061524/@comment-45089982-20200628225848

I was the one who did the Festivals page for SOSFOMT on Ranchstory wiki.



On October 19th, 2019, I created the page. Our translators translated the event names. Mochi-Pounding Festival is not the direct translation, the direct translation is Rice Cake/Mochi Tournament. It was called Mochi-Pounding Festival on our page because we knew what happened at the event by reading the description and took a guess by adding Festival, which is no where in the translation.



You added the page on this wiki around 5 hours after we did. The rip was direct, because you have "Spring" and then "Spring" again underneath it, which isn't what you normally do on your festival pages (see your ANB festival page for comparison, original history). When we realized you were taking it, I made a comment directly on our wiki page about what you were taking. You didn't edit again until October 25th, 6 days after I had openly commented about what you were doing.

Mai, all your edits are timestamped. Why you are protesting against being called out for plagiarizing, I'm unsure, but the correct response to a situation like this would be to apologize, rectify the error, and promise not to do it again because we're all adults who should have a basic level of integrity for the work we do and the places we represent. When you say another user edited the page, you do realize we can hit "prev version" on the history and see exactly what you edited, right?

I know you were aware of the conversation that happened the first time, as Nixerix has commented that you two discussed it. You were aware we didn't want you utilizing our pictures. You did it anyways. Again, the correct response isn't to call us plagiarists in return (we don't copy the guides directly, and you won't find a single page not referencing the official guides we pull our information from in APA format, because I'm very finnicky with sourcing), it's to apologize. Because of your lack of an apology or remorse (considering you quietly deleted/rearranged the pages after we made this issue known and added quotations around the word stolen in your previous reply), I'm diverting this back toward Nixerix, because I'm unsatisifed with your response as an administrator.

Nixerix, can we please have the changes reverted as originally requested? Or, at least, some sort of reassurance that this isn't going to be a routine thing every 4-5 months. Additionally, I would like it to be known Mai is not allowed to pull any images or information from our social sites or Ranchstory wiki from here on out.

I would also like to keep open contact with you, Nixerix, I have linked my personal discord to fandom and listed it on my page. You are welcome to message me any time directly.