Talk:Umbral Grotto/Temp

So why does this page need to be deleted for copyright reasons and the ENTIRE rest of the wiki doesn't? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.184.241.144 (talk • contribs) 03:51, 3 September 2007 (UTC).

The page you copy/pasted from the Guild Wiki site does not contain the proper Guild Wars Wiki Location fomatting guidelines, and because it is copied from GuildWiki, it is not properly licenced by LAW. Therefore has to be deleted. To create a Location Stub, please refer to THIS wiki's rules and policies. In other words, start fresh. And follow the rules. Laura Brinklow 01:57, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

People on this wiki get information in-game, not on the other wiki. Copying from that wiki (unless you're the full author of that page) is plagiarism, which falls under the category of "Illegal". It's perfectly fine to make this wiki's Umbral Grotto article if you get your info from the game itself. Calor 04:32, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

The copyright problem has two issues:

1. The description part is a direct copy of a text released under the CC 2.0 by-nc-sa license, which is a violation, since we are under the GFDL 1.2. These licenses do not match.
2. The formatting of the page is also a direct copy of the GuildWiki website, and apparently, this is also a copyvio. (Don't know why exactly, but I think it falls under the same issues as #1.)

It is perfectly fine to use factual in-game data from GuildWiki, as long as you make sure you confirm it yourself, but you can't copy user created texts or formatting, unless that specific contributor has released his contributions ALSO under GFDL on GuildWiki. Take a look on my page there, I clearly state that my contribution on that wiki are also released under GFDL. --  (CoRrRan / talk) 17:43, 3 September 2007 (UTC)