User blog comment:WikiPim/Wikia, what are you trying to do?/@comment-4053809-20120305164530

Let's clarify for all: I did not write the Terms of Use - it's a legal document written by lawyers and approved by the senior executive staff here at Wikia.

As has always been the case on WIkia (and every other site that includes user generated content), the individual who is contributing the content is wholly responsible for ensuring the content itself is not in violation of another's copyrights. This helps us protect ourselves as a company, and, as RT says above, is in line with the DMCA. For example, if we have someone on the service who continues to add content that we receive valid DMCA takedowns for, we will close that person's account (which is also part of the DMCA law).

"Godisme" is not impersonating the Christian entity known as "God". The impersonation clause says, specifically, "You agree not to use the Service to Attempt to impersonate another user or person;" That's pretty clear to me. For example (and this is an example of one use case), if someone creates an account intended to appear as a staff member (maybe a close spelling, same avatar etc) we would close that account as impersonation. Same if someone did that appearing to be Randomtime or any other user of the service.

WikiPM, we have complied with the laws regarding notifying people of a change to the Terms of Use - you can see that we've marked both the Terms and Privacy Policy as "Updated" on the global footer. As with everything related to our Terms, we discussed this notification with our legal staff.

If you are unhappy with these changes to our Terms, you are welcome to stop using the service at any time.