Thread:Nixerix/@comment-30269588-20200220132302/@comment-30269588-20200221073243

Ranchstory-runetree wrote: Hi, this is Runetree from Ranch Story. I felt it necessary to weigh in on this.

Clara AD, you do not have permission to use any of Ranch Story's information; not by paraphrasing, not by summarizing, and not by rewording. If you gather the info yourself by playing the games, recording the dialogue and taking your own screenshots, that's fine, that information is owned by Marvelous. The point is, the collection of this information is a rigorous process for our editors and we did the footwork and you are not welcome to take our work, whether it's using our old or new wiki as a resource.

I’m the one who ported over the entire old wiki to the new one when we lost our host. Many of the original wiki editors are still with us- Ranch Story has been more proactive of not allowing people to plagiarize our work since we moved, because it's a serious issue and we have not always been credited properly, hence our request.

This formal request, by the way, includes use of our work and our editors' work through the wayback machine. That information was donated to the old Ranch Story wiki for use by Ranch Story only, regardless of how it was preserved. The main person you are taking the work of is an editor who goes by Celery, who is actively rebuilding our Animal Parade section and they originally put that information into the old wiki through their own hard work. I don't know how to express this beyond pointing out this detail of who the actual contributor is, because it takes work to get this information and to organize this information. These are real people taking time to do things for the community.

Thank you Nixerix for respecting our wishes for our content not to be copied, I (and others from Ranch Story) really appreciate your efforts. We hope our wishes continue to be respected by all users of wikia. I think those Animal Parade pages on the new Ranch Story site should be marked for deletion, most of them have no content as of now (especially quotes).