Thread:Batfax/@comment-4694083-20191021152958

Batfax wrote: Howdy,

Nice talking to y'all directly for the first time. So, for a long time now, since about 2010, our community RanchStory has put a lot of effort into compiling information on Bokumono games into our very own wiki. We had a rocky time, lost our hosting, and had to move and rebuild at a new one. All in all, it's been a heckuva time.

Y'see, while we've been rebuilding we've noticed a very particular issue. One that's extremely prevalent right now as a new highly anticipated game is being released. The big thing here is seeing our content, our research, our scanned images, out translations, our everything that we put into our information, copied directly to this wikia. Word-for-word, table for table. This is something that's been going on since even the earliest days of this wikia.

Would you kindly see that this sort of behavior shouldn't be seen as acceptable? We take the time to do things by hand more often than not, fact check, credit individual users who contribute, so on and so forth. When these things are copied, word for word, it often tends to leave things such as who contributed and compiled this information out. As if it magically appeared from thin air. I'm sure we both know this isn't the case.

I'd appreciate any word on it.

Thanks so much.

Hi Batfax,

Thanks for your concern and I'm sorry that your community has been negatively affected. Please understand that I am the only active admin. I know that this is a problem. This has been going on for years. We do not have an active team to look for copy/pasted content. A lot of content is copy-pasted straight from fogu.com (and has been since day one) and I've done my best to fix it when I'm able to. I have heard similar complaints for your website and others as well, I'm sure. Pages from Friends of Mineral Town (Gray) or Heath are pages I've worked on where I've added references and re-worded so it isn't ripped straight word-for-word. Unless I'm adding the information myself, it can be hard to verify where something comes from when it's added by another user. Even then -- I'm not always perfect. Part of the reason I started diligentily adding references where I could is because I have made the same mistakes myself through the editing on this wikia.

We've added an area urging editors to add references in the Style Manual. But we both know that 99% of people don't read it. The best way to have me fix it is to report it. We had a user report images taken from tumblr a few weeks ago, which I removed at their request. There's been other examples of this in the past. I've removed several watermarked images over the years. If I KNOW and am aware that content has been plagerized, I remove it. I'd rather leave the page empty with an edit notation that it was copy/pasted than leave the information up. Several pages (usually ripped from fogu) are bare bones or completely empty for this reason.

If you have any specific examples of content that you'd like removed, changed, credited or edited, please let me know. Without it being reported, however, there are a lot of things that go unnoticed. Looking at your edit history, it looks like most of this stems from scanned photographs. You've added credit to the scans, but if you don't want us to use them, I can remove them. If you give us permission to continue using these (with credit to ranchstory), I can work through continuing to credit your site here. If tables of information are being copied word-for-word as you've stated, feel free to wipe the page with a note on the edit so the community is aware.

Thanks for your concern and I hope that there is some way that I will be able to help you. If you have any suggestions, I am also open to those. 