Thread:GethN7/@comment-2131763-20131203231833/@comment-7981828-20140120011006

Nate, before I even consider doing that, I want you to acknowledge a few things:


 * TV Tropes is NOT Wikipedia. I've seen your rants to that effect, but they are not. Their namespace scheme is because they use a wiki engine called PmWiki (customized for use as trope wiki), and they have to separate pages into those namespaces due to how their version of PmWiki organizes page information.


 * While TV Tropes is very ban happy, ban evading by using another account is what got you thrown out of TV Tropes, and in their defense, I probably would have done the same thing as them, especially since you did a poor job of hiding your ban evasion.


 * Vandalism (on wikis at least) is wrong. It's not necessarily criminal, since it causes no permanent damage to software designed to be altered by anyone, but it's still ethically and morally wrong. Plagiarism is also wrong and is against the Terms of Service for Wikia and any other troping site.


 * Hiring a hacker to damage another website is a criminal offense, because you are trying to destroy intellectual property on a server you do not own or have legitimate access to, and you have no legal justification for attempting to usurp the authority of Fast Eddie or anyone else on TV Tropes.


 * If I do lift your ban, I will do so under the following conditions:


 * You will not attempt to bring drama from other websites to either the Tropes Mirror Wiki, or it's non Wikia cousin All The Tropes, which includes any attempt to make public plans/recruitment for trolling, hacking, vandalism or harassment of other websites.


 * You will obey the rules of Wikia or Orain (should you choose to check out All The Tropes), as well as whatever rules apply to the troping sites on either.


 * You will only copy information from legal sources. Wikia and All The Tropes share the CC BY SA 3.0 license, so they can exchange information freely. Also, as much as you may not like Wikipedia, this means information could be imported or shared from there as well, and in all cases this will be done with proper attribution (state the URL you imported your info from in your edit reasons or something similar). In the case of a troping wiki, the front page of the Tropes Mirror Wiki states what is legal to import and where you can get it, and I expect you to adhere by that.


 * You will acknowledge the rules of the website you are on and accept them. There are rules to almost every organization on Earth, and websites you can contribute content to are no different, and you will be expected to abide by them.

If you can agree to all the above, I will rescind your block.

Also, I mentioned All The Tropes above, which you may wish to check out if you can agree to abide by the rules (it's fairly laid back, as is our policy), but we still have some rules you will have to abide by no matter what troping website you go to, so bear that in mind.