User blog comment:Nausiated/Stuart Vandal/@comment-5313287-20130730001957/@comment-61022-20130730173618

I've heard that some of the people at the Unofficial Appendix (which are all basically writers for the Official Handbooks) have been upset with us at times over contributors here copying and pasting their work or lifting images from their site and putting them up here. Which is a legitimate reason to be upset, but I think for the most part that no longer happens as most people on the site know better.

I'd say the only time it happens here is with new users from time to time, but against its exceedingly rare because the characters covered in the Unofficial Appendix are so obscure.

I do come across the odd article that still has material from either the Unofficial Appendix, Wikipedia or copied right out of the Marvel Handbooks, but these are usually "obscure" characters and the pages themselves had not been updated for many many years suggesting that an admin has not gotten to it yet. Stuart complains that we don't "get to them" fast enough when there are over 110975 pages on this site, and only 8 active admins on the site, that makes it hard for us to keep track of.

But the irony here is that since the site is open source and if Stuart wanted to be less of a complete wiener about it, he could have gone in and eliminated the plagiarized material himself once he found it. Because at this point, that is how we admins have been finding this stuff: By coming across it on happenstance.