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 Meh, this matter is... weird. On one hand, you're absolutely correct; plagiarism is a huge no-no, especially now that we've made it clear we want nothing to do with the wikia-wiki. I have had my work plagiarized and was devastated, enraged, even. It isn't cool.
On the other hand, they're just images. It is possible to pick images up from google, unlike article sections and template designs. I know that isn't the case here, but still. I don't think it is a very huge deal if people use images. I mean, it helps when you, you know, credit where you got that image from, which the wikia-wiki clearly didn't do, but think about it -- we don't do that either. Example: the huge, beautiful rendered images such as this one. We got that off of some french site. I don't see a credit there. Unless we want to make a policy that says "you must supply the source you obtained your image from", let's not worry about it, 'cause it's not really a big deal... unless it's one of those ripped renders that folks like Shard conjures up, like all the item images: while they aren't ours, so to speak, they came from our resources and we would appreciate it if people acknowledged that. We're a wiki. It's our job to supply information, images included. I've seen tons of images online that have our images used in them. If it really bothers us that people are using our resources, then we should make a bunch of policies and watermark all of our images. Which we shouldn't do. We would be the thieves then. Everyone gets their images somewhere, why not here? I dunno if it's just me -- I like it when people use our images. It makes me proud to know that our image database is so good that people want to use it.
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Okay so I went to the old wiki, to get to templates so I can audit, so then I decide "eh, why not look through the uploaded pictures?" and I see they've taken the Battle Missions emblem that I extracted from the game... now, what would this be called? Plagiarism? Because it seems so. You don't see us going to their wiki taking their information... discuss.
Wait. Did we mention that they cannot steal pictures from our wiki? They should know better than to steal, y'know.
I just took a quick Google images search for it and didn't find anything, at all. So it's clear that they didn't get it from there, the only source is either my hard drive or the wiki. And only one is viewable to anyone.
Completely unacceptable, I'll bring it up on a forum over there later.
As long as you asked if you can use it, but we cannot tie back to Wikia, y'know. And also, AlVan, I'm not being mean, but we left Wikia because they ignore everyone but themselves, and that they don't care for controversy. I'd say more, but it's so late here...
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No, I was talking about images that were personally edited/ripped/etc. by US, such as the Mushroom images which I'd supplied, .gifs, Shard and IZerox's work. Renders are fine because they are official material released from a source of Square Enix, not ripped by us with the use of programs and stuff. I brought this up because I had extracted the Battle Mission emblem, I didn't find it on some site and upload it here. It was done with my effort. And I don't want other people to gain from my work, unless I am credited and gain some part of the recognition it is getting.
