Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20140515085613/@comment-122657-20140604230608

I'm all for removing plagiarized material as it's found, but some of the ideas presented here are a bit... extreme.

The reason this place is so much better than Marvel's 'official' wiki is because anyone can contribute. As soon as you take that away, you're just making us a fan version of what Marvel already has made.

The other aspect of why this place is so great is the community. Everyone is just trying to add something to an already complicated and difficult structure, as the admins, we should be doing our utmost to always be giving users the benefit of the doubt. If they added plagiarized material 100 times and never read our policies or were caught, is it really their fault? Now if they've been told about it and they continue, that's a different story.

I've been through a LOT of these contributor's edits myself, Marvel and DC guy especially. It's tough work, and tracking the contributions that need to be checked is a great idea.

When it comes to the REALLY old stuff, be really careful about assuming the other site is the first. Our content has been around long enough that it could easily have been pulled from us, rather than the other way around.

I've always pulled down/deleted anything anyone else has claimed is plagiarized. If it's their content, that's their right.