Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5070188-20151226234449/@comment-5070188-20151228144609

Dessamator wrote: Chakor Channing wrote:

Speedit wrote: They are considering did consider your request - its just that the requirements are a lot more stringent to prevent the removal of even slightly useful wikis. To repeat my question on the other thread (you probably didn't pick it up =D), would you be fine with moving all the content to a larger fanfiction wiki before having the wiki removed by merger?

PS: As before you're doing well not to link to the wiki so that it doesn't get any pageview boosts and edits from users here. Thank you and yes that was my stradegy. ;-) I wouldn't be okay with merging the content with another fan fiction wiki because I am seriously considering using the content that I wrote for a published book. No kidding. It would probably be 20 years from now until it would be published. I wouldn't directly copy the content from the fan fiction wiki I set up, but would use some of the same general ideas. I want Wikia to take down the wiki so that no one coincidentally comes across it and steals these ideas. It is funny that you state that people will "steal these ideas", when you're actually guilty of the same thing. Even if wikia takes it down, anyone can still re-use the content to do whatever they like, that is what you gave up the moment you pressed the submit button. Search engines and other sites regularly cache and store the pages, one could easily  use "internet archive" to store those pages, making them available to anyone thereafter.

Ignorance is rarely an acceptable defense for a "crime / infringement".

The bottom line is this, you don't own the original content because if it is really a fan-fiction the copyright to those ideas belong to the original author(s). If you're so concerned about getting this content removed, then contact the true owners of the work, explain that you copied it illegally, and ask them to file a DMCA request.

So are you saying I copied information from Wikia illegally? The "fan fiction" wiki in question has no editors other than myself, and it currently doesn't have any editors now that I'm not writing there. I would think that Wikia would be willing to take the wiki down for reasons I have made perfectly clear in this thread, if you have been paying attention, mainly me not being smart enough to set up my own website at the time of writing on the wiki. Oh and by the way, I'll use the term "using" instead of "stealing" from now on if it bothers you that much. JK.