User blog:Lady Aleena/Why to not copy and paste

As the admin of a wiki and a writer of articles and lists, I am very aware of the image a wiki can get if their material is all copied and pasted from other sources. Fandom wikis may not be as tight with some rules, but there should be one at the top of every list of what a wiki is not, that wikis here are not thieves.

I have made it a point to import templates from Community Central to my wiki, and I would import anything else needed. You might wonder why I do not copy and paste. The reason is, I want to make sure the editors of those templates get the proper credit for their work on my wiki too.

I would do the same for anything else. If I find an article I want on my wiki, I will import it so the editors keep their credit.

As an editor, I would not want my work copied and pasted elsewhere. It has already happened to me when some of my work on Wikipedia was just lifted from there and pasted into a Fandom wiki. I was more than a little hurt when I saw my work not attributed to me. I spent days writing those articles. The copier did not even edit out the red links! It was a complete disaster.

So, when I see copying and pasting, I tend to think poorly of the person doing it. It is stealing, especially when there is no attribution or reference given.

Am I the only one who feels this way? Lady Aleena (talk) 08:32, October 27, 2017 (UTC)