Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-24544305-20160507131940/@comment-452-20160507205825

Iynque wrote: [...] attribution [...], or you can go and add it yourself (it's a wiki; anyone can edit it!). I'm glad this advice is still standard.

I recently added attribution to another wiki myself, and an admin there got really mad about it.

Johnny Warren, in the case of mass-copying, I wouldn't waste my time adding the attribution myself, the onus should be on the person who copied it, so if they're not responding, I think you should skip straight to contacting Wikia Staff.

There are two things which Wikia Staff can do in the case of content copied without attribution: add attribution, or remove the content.

The problem is that Wikia Staff often do the opposite of what you ask them to do.
 * If you ask Wikia Staff to "Please remove this content which wasn't attributed correctly", then they will add attribution.
 * If you ask Wikia Staff to "Please add attribution to this copied content", then will remove the content.

The time before last, I specifically wanted attribution added, so I withheld identifying the specific piece of copied text, because I knew that Wikia Staff would choose remove it rather than doing as I requested.

Today, I requested they add attribution to something else, but this time identified the specific piece of copied text: so instead of adding the attribution as I asked, they just removed the text.