Forum:Duplicate American Girl Wiki

There's been two duplicate American GirlWikis here:


 * http://americangirlusa.wikia.com
 * http://agd.wikia.com

I don't know what you guys do about duplicate wikis, but the second one is literally just copying the articles from the first. I'm not really bothered personally--many people in the fandom are young and have short attention spans--so much as I don't think there's a need for Wikia to host multiple wikis on the same topic.

Thanks for any help you have regarding this. --Nethilia 16:21, December 2, 2009 (UTC)


 * Nethilia, usually Wikia will allow duplicate wikis because different communities may have different philosophies. However, if the second Wikia is just copying articles from the first, that is a serious copyright issue and both the admins of the second Wikia and the Wikia Staff (Special:Contact) should be informed. --DaNASCAT 18:27, December 2, 2009 (UTC)


 * How would I inform the second wiki about the article copying? Because they have in fact copied article text with no citations. --Nethilia 03:06, December 3, 2009 (UTC)

Just as a clarification, the copying of articles only becomes a problem if it's being done without proper acknowledgment of the source and the original authors (ie, everyone who ever contributed to the revision on the first wiki up until the point it was copied to the second wiki). That's required under CC-BY-SA, which most Wikia wikis are licensed under, so if that proper acknowledgment hasn't been given then that's where the problem arises. If there is a proper acknowledgment, then it's fair game. Somewhat annoying, yes, but fair game all the same. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 18:37, December 2, 2009 (UTC)


 * The second one has copied article text from the A*G Wiki and has spammed articles onto my Wiki asking for contributors. The spamming does not bother me so much as I've blocked the spammer, but yes, every artcle is copied from the text of that A*G Wiki with no acknowledgement of the source. --Nethilia 03:06, December 3, 2009 (UTC)