Forum:Banning someone

Just found out one of my top contributors did nothing but steal his articles from other sites. Imo, this really damages my Wiki. He stole all his stuff from one of the most popular websites about the Three Kingdoms, so anyone who visits my wiki knows it's ripped. I want the motherf****r banned asap. How?

Was finally getting some visitors (10-15 a day)... damn this ****. --- Zantam03 21:50, March 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * This all depends on what site he copied from. If the site has a sharing license or is not copyrighted, he has done nothing legally wrong. Even if you didn't want him to copy stuff in the first place, I don't think you need to ban him - just tell him not to do so again. Wjxhuang,  the 888th Avatar  {Talk} 21:58, March 5, 2010 (UTC)

1) It is copyrighted material

2) Even if it wasn't copyrighted. He stole it from a popular site. Now, my wiki is basically known as a rip-off of that site! Anyone with brains knows that's not good, so I don't feel the need to tell him not to do it again, he knew full well what he was doing and was even claiming credit for it.

I want him banned.

-- Zantam03 22:03, March 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * If you are an admin, i.e. you made the wiki or adopted it which I guess you mean from "my wiki", you can block him by going to his user page and using the block user tool in the toolbox under the sidebar. However, I would give him a chance first. Tell him that he has done wrong and give him a warning. Maybe he didn't know it was wrong. Explain it to him first. ☆ The  Solar  Dragon  ( Talk ) ☆ 22:22, March 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * Blocks should be a preventative rather than punishment measure. Generally, users are only blocked if they are vandalising or for sustained personal attacks etc. Therefore, one should only issue a block after a warning or two. An immediate block in this case seems rather extreme. Just delete/rewrite the pages, and get him to stop copying content. Obviously, if he keeps copying content, then block him. Wjxhuang,  the 888th Avatar  {Talk} 22:27, March 5, 2010 (UTC)

Hmm yea ok I guess you guys are right. I was just really pissed because it makes my Wiki look bad and he really copied A LOT... but alright, I'll message him first. -- Zantam03 22:29, March 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * Also in the meantime, you can make a template tag to identify the stolen material and give credit to site it was taken from with a note that the content is being removed or rewritten. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 11:48 PM PST 5 Mar 2010

Thanks for the tip, but I know some people from that website so I think I'll just PM them.

Well, guess you guys were right. He apologised and said he only knows about the fictional part of the subject (there's a book called Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which is fiction, but it's actually more popular then the historical Records of the Three Kingdoms), he liked the Wiki and wanted to contribute and that's why he did what he did. -- Zantam03 14:09, March 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * Classical case.
 * On most wikis, there's a rules « assume good faith ». But even i sometime have difficulties in observing it.
 * Admins of wikis like us have a sometime anoying job a educating news users about how wikis works, about copyright, licences and others things.
 * Good luck. — TulipVorlax 04:48, March 12, 2010 (UTC)