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Plagiarism on the Vine

Been coming across plagiarism more and more as I work on character bios. Please, people, please don't plagiarize. All it takes is for one too many plagiarized articles and an overzealous lawyer at Warner Bros. or Disney to really throw a monkey wrench into the Vine's existence. And I don't really think adding a couple of extra prepositions counts. Also, just because it's not taken from the web, doesn't mean it's not plagiarism or you won't get caught.

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I agree, well said. I have come across a few pages myself, and I am not that active on Wiki pages either. Oh plus its fun to get your creative thinking flowing with writing up new and original content for a character! 

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Maybe there should be a way for a user who comes across a plagirized page to flag it as such so someone who knows the character well enough can come in and rewrite it later.
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@PrinceIMC: They used to set tasks for the pages before they re-worked the way they were assigning tasks. 
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It's hard to find who exactly plagiarized a wiki page because it could have been one user or multiple people could plagiarize a single wiki page (though I seriously doubt it but nonetheless it is possible).

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@PrinceIMC said:
" Maybe there should be a way for a user who comes across a plagirized page to flag it as such so someone who knows the character well enough can come in and rewrite it later. "
That would be an awesome idea. I kinda like how Wikipedia handles it with a flag to at least acknowledge the plagiarism.
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I always check when I edit a page to see if it's been plagiarized or not. Still we need a way to find the user responsible for plagiarism on a page so they can be warned or banned.

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@CrimsonAvenger:  The only way I could see this working is if the Mods have more robust tools to tell what has changed on a page (like Wikipedia's history). From my understanding, this used to exist on the Vine, but it caused some significant slow-down on page edits on the back end, and was removed. Right now, I understand the existing tools could result in "false positives" when looking at what changed. If you surf through the forums (I think this one) you'll see one of the mods post screen shots on what they see on the review screens...
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Yup. A changelog would be incredibly useful.

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Should we establish some sort of secret police on CV where we can inform on our friends and colleagues?   
 
In Soviet Russia, Comic Vine plagiarizes you!

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@RazzaTazz: Only if the secret police can wear those cool hats!
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you should take it up with the moderators. 

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Or someone could just make a master thread of plagiarized content and it could be updated as people change it
-Virus

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@haydenclaireheroes: Oh, the mods have been tremendously helpful once plagiarism is discovered. (I guess now would be a great time to note that, if plagiarism is found, I believe the correct procedure is to use the PM All Mods link on the Meet Your Mods forum thread.) My intention was to plead to the community in general to not plagiarize. I think it's seen as one of those "victimless crimes" that occasionally needs to be brought into the light every so often.
 
Personally, when I find plagiarism, I rewrite the page myself (like I did in the Captain Triumph example above) instead of bothering the mods. They have enough to deal with :)