Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-26717417-20170802073917/@comment-119.75.205.241-20170804081902

Henstepl wrote: Honestly...

I don't think there is any need to continue this discussion.

What's going to happen is, yes, Staff is probably going to come in and invoke the policy for this complaint, even though it is not a complaint that could correspond to any legal action the sort of which causes the policy to exist in the first place. The content will be removed, and the wiki damaged by its removal.

We thank you for the hard work involved in your translation, Skythewood. We have only grumbled because we do not feel that it grants you any monopoly on the resulting translation. Not least of all because you were not legally authorized to translate it, and not most of all because any other similarly-unauthorized translations of the same source one might choose to undertake would almost certainly converge with the content of your translation, so there is no reason to duplicate your efforts outside of a rebuttal of your maintenance of exclusivity. The wikia will be damaged by the removal of fan translation? Are you serious? Do you know how a normal wikia light novel page looks like? Here's an example.

http://rezero.wikia.com/wiki/Re:Zero_Light_Novel_Volume_8

Don't get me wrong, Wikia is a wonderful place for information and media, but it is not a fan translation site. I visited this page in hope of checking out the sypnosis and what I saw is my translation copied and pasted here. Zero sypnosis/summary for the light novel volumes.

And if you think the content will be removed because I reported it, boy will you be in for a surprise when you check back next week. Chances are, it will still be here.

But really, the wikia will be hurt that badly by removing the fan translation? Why not do something normal like link to my site?

If you think fan translation is such an important element for a wikia page, there's a site call baka tsuki where you can find many fan translations, and update all the corresponding wikia pages?