Wikipedia's episode articles...

[FabuVinny]

I was browsing Wikipedia during the recent server move and I noticed that there are now some articles on individual episodes of the anime. So I had a look at one... and it looked very familiar.

To pick one at random:
Battle Tower! Telepathy Battle! at Wikipedia.
AG170 at Bulbapedia.

Can they do that? I'm not sure how the copying rules work but I know that we have a policy of not copying from Wikipedia so I just wanted to bring this to people's attention.

 

[Archaic]

If that was copied from us...no, they can't. We have an incompatible license.

 

[bgt]

Lol, I saw those about 2 days ago when I was cross referencing the episode titles... lmao, the synposis is on there. >_<

 

[Sunain]

I can confirm that it is plagiarizing as the synopsis was written by bgtfamily and some of the work on that article was done by myself. Neither Bgtfamily nor I posted on wikipedia nor did we want our work there. It was intended for Bulbapedia only.

 

[Pie]

Methinks we should make it loud and clear this isn't permitted. Checking the histories, the Wikipedia's Battle Tower episode was removed and then put back up, and a cease-and-desist message Archaic left on the offender's talk page was removed by an anonymous.

 

[Sunain]

Deleted all infringing synopsis's and identical information from Bulbapedia. Left a tag stating : <-- Original synopsis removed due to plagiarizing -->

 

[Zhen Lin]

Wonderful, copyvio... There are instructions at [wp]Wikipedia:Copyvio[/wp] for these cases... But it looks like this is not isolated: Look at all these articles...

Agh, I wish there was some way to punish this user on our side - but there isn't.