Thread:Project Predacon/@comment-3207457-20180203154338/@comment-4820209-20180203205417

Shirkahn wrote: I would like to politely request some help, please. I tried to revert an edit on "Godzilla Earth" (b/c I added new info on his design from wikizilla, but someone deleted my edit and accused me of plaigirism, when I really typed it word for word, and changed minor details to avoid plaigirism) and somehow I accidentally deleted most of the content. I apologise for any and all inconvinience, but I've been a Godzilla fan since I was a kid (as I'm sure many are), and I just want to add some new info on the King of the Monsters, properly, but the editing tools making it confusing.

Please, help me. :( The deletion was fixed. It's all fine, nothing big, and the content's been readded.

Towards the plagiarism, if you're gonna add new information, but copy it word for word from another site, at best, you need to cite said site, where you got the information from. While it's regurgitation and would do with some rewrites to at least make it aesthetically different, you're at least not saying the information was specifically provided by you, or whoever edited it, resulting in said plagiarism. If it's someone else's work, cite 'em, so you're not stealing it. Ethically, that's the biggest issue.

The other issue, we don't generally cite wikis for newly added information. Wikis are generally a means to get to information, but really should't be relied upon for stuff like that, and we're shying away from using them as official resources when they can be just as flawed.

Basically, in the future, just try and cite your info if you're adding it from another source, and don't use wikis for definitive stuff like that.

Scoobydooman90001 wrote: And how a page for Miana has to be named 'Unidentified Earth female' cause nobody is capable of reading the credits (a personal pet peeve, for me). Welcome to everybody not being supremely versed in Japanese. Additionally, given she had no speaking role, the name "Miana" could easily be given to another female of the cast who did have a minor speaking role. The female officer commanding the drones comes to mind, given her voice and other characters she voices sound similar.