Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-7981828-20130825001301

I run the Tropes Mirror Wiki, an unofficial fork of the TV Tropes wiki (they are aware of the wiki, the site owner doesn't like us, but we follow CC license rules regarding content so they generally just ignore our existence), and I have a recurring problem with people uploading content they shouldn't.

Around July 2012, they changed their license from CC BY SA to CC BY NC SA, so we can only use content from June 2012 and earlier, and we can either get it from the Internet Wayback Machine, or from a legally available torrent archive linked on our front page containing everything on TV Tropes from June 2012.

Unfortunately, I have to deal with lots of people copy pasting page sources from present day TV Tropes pages on my wiki, which is not only a violation of CC BY SA, but since you can't view the page sources without having an account from there anyway, a simple comparison of a June 2012 page source is all I need to determine if the page material is plagiarized.

Most of these uploaders generally follow the rules once I explain this, but I've had to deal with a few banned TV Tropes users (I even had to report one) and people who refuse to read the upload rules who blatantly plagiarize, and I was wondering if there was some way I could put up a "READ THIS FIRST IF YOU PLAN TO SUBMIT CONTENT TO THIS WIKI" page that everyone would be forced to see at least once explaining the rules, so that way, no one can't say they weren't aware of the rules afterwards.

I consider myself a forgiving guy and don't want to stomp on the newbies (most have been amenable to reason once I explain the rules), but since this is a recurring issue, does anyone have some ideas for what I should implement? 