Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-2175012-20170418154849

So, Queen Misery had just made me aware of this, but I somewhat feel that we are too strict on the zero plagiarism rule. Now, plagiarism by definition is thievery, but there have been some pages that had a few lines of similarity to another site rather than be an obvious cut and copy from another wiki. Personally, I had deleted several pages that were marked under plagiarism without giving as much of a choice for the original uploader to redo it, which I acknowledge I shouldn't have. The issue comes in where we give at least a month or so for an article to be changed. Even so, the original uploader doesn't bother to even take the warning. Say that they just went to....I don't know, the Dragon Ball Wiki, saw that a certain villain wasn't listed here, edited that page, and copied the entire source. That user then gets a note saying that the page was marked under plagiarized, but said user doesn't bother to change it for a long time.

Really, those types of articles ended up cluttering the Plagiarism category because they hadn't been changed in months or maybe even years. Plagiarism only makes the wiki look bad, I should know as I contribute to the cleanup forum for the CM trope over at TV Tropes where it is pointed out that several of our articles are blatantly carbon copies of the original source. I just feel that by not doing anything about those pages just makes the credibility of the VW more suspect. Now, how are we to go about our plagiarism policy? 