Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5070188-20151226234449/@comment-5065259-20160105220459

Pinkgirl234 wrote:

This is a different question than the wider thread topic, so it probably would have benefited from its own thread. But yes, it's entirely legal to blank and delete content on a wiki you founded. It's also okay to move pages (the same thing as renaming, from a technical standpoint). However, note that if you have a lot of other people than yourself working on the wiki, it's not really "your" wiki anymore (all founding a wiki really means is that you have extra tools so that you can take care of the wiki--you're like the wiki's mom or dad) and that the wiki's community might not want a lot of blanking and deleting so you should run it by them or they have the right to try to hold a discussion to, say, remove you as an administrator/bureaucrat. True. It could be considered as vandalism once you have other contributors in your wiki. About the last sentence you said, it's also true that the community has a right to hold a discussion in demoting a sysop who blanks content. The only problem here is that the sysop may possibly turn out as abusive so it's also best to notify Staff about the issue as well. After all, it doesn't mean that you are the founder of a wiki doesn't mean that you can do whatever you want.

Okay, after reading this thread from time to time, let me say this: in the first place, no one should copypaste content from another site and then distribute it to a wiki without even bothering to ask for consent, give credit or paraphrase. This is the definition of plagiarism and most wikis don't tolerate plagiarism. You cannot say that you own the content that you have just got from another site or wiki. If you do mange to use copypaste methods, then at least make the effort in paraphrasing as well as leaving out unneeded parts. In the case of fanfiction though, it still isn't right to get fanfictions that belong to various authors and then distribute them in your wiki. Imagine what the original authors of the fanfictions you have distributed in your wiki when they find out that you used their storied without proper consent. Worse case scenario is when you decided to change parts of their content in order to stray the content from the original layout while most of the parts remain similar between the changed layout and the original layout. The best thing to do is to rename the content into something else like your own and original fanfiction as well as to apologize to the original authors. hi Pink, to an extent staff don't really care about abusive admins considering people have in the past complained but staff won't take action unless it violates the TOU so harassment or disruptive stalking. takes a lot of effort before staff will intervene.

you can't really blank content technically since CC BY-SA basically says anything you submit can be redistributed with attribution/credit that is. staff still grants leeway in terms of what is blanked or deleted. mass deletion almost always gets staff or vstf attention and if alarming they will message you. other than that, they will leave you alone. staff allows closure of wikis depending on topic, existing community and if the topic will ever have any interest.