Thread:Leviathan 89/@comment-26116130-20200816215154/@comment-26116130-20200825210821

Hello, Leviathan 89, thank you for responding.

Translation without credit is plagiarism. An attribution is morally and legally required, as covered by the CC-BY-SA license spread over all wikis: free to adapt under the term of attributing it. The Fandom licensing says, without any exception mentioned:


 * "When re-using Fandom text that has been posted subject to a Creative Commons license, you must provide attribution to the authors."

I understand that on the internet too many people don't care about crediting others' works, even go out of their way to erase it, but I thought that Fandom had any say on its content. I make an effort to fix this on the wiki I currently administrate; if you identified a source I haven't credited yet, you're more than welcome to inform me. From my understanding and experience, interlanguage wikis are a tool intended to connect wikis of common themes but different language communities, not to be a page translator. Also, I mentioned images and templates because they made the user's intentions of reproducing the complete wiki obvious; of course, the matter of translation wasn't using the same English sources instead of the equivalent ones in Italian, or their coincidental choice on monthly character, or having the same taste on pictures, etc., but the content used to replicate without attributing its due authors, with no input to begin to justify the one who claims to be the author.

I talked to the user about attribution and they ignored me, continuing to copy without attributing. I asked a first councilor what Fandom has to protect its content. I was redirected to you as a helper. I know that Fandom has a say on attribution both legally and on its community guidelines. I've dealt with a similar case of plagiarism before and I went repeatedly adding the attribution on each of the hundreds of articles, but the user only stopped when a website also being plagiarized threatened them with a lawsuit.

I'm not talking about having my views split, a duplication with attribution would still do so. I'm talking about users researching, studying, creating, writing, and collaborating, then someone else that never contributed with anything copies and claims it to be theirs — that's what lack of attribution means. This shouldn't be normalized. Collaboration involves more than one side making an effort to make something grow, not someone taking other people's work without being allowed or consented. I shouldn't have to watch the steps of another user in another wiki just so I can add the attribution myself: the responsibility and obligation are theirs. I understand it's the Fandom's too.

In sum, this is a problem because it's unfair and disrespectful. Otherwise, the licensing and guidelines of this website are just untruthful and deceptive. As another user said on a similar case (Thread:865019): "It is allowed with credit. It is not allowed without credit."