Thread:Duchannes/@comment-30384903-20160507204238

Hi there Hess! I'll admit right off the bat, it took me a while to calm down and attempt to behave civilly when writing to you; to say I'm a little hurt is a gigantic understatement. I cannot guarantee my following message wouldn't sound harsh, but please try to understand that I am in fact trying my best to phrase the situation neutrally with an unbiased critical eye, and please know that nothing I say is against you as a person, nothing is personal, I'm commenting on the action that was done.

So yes, I've accidentally come across w:c:after-the-caster-chronicles. I understand you are not the founder of that wiki, however, seeing that you are an Admin there, you are equally responsible of what's going on there.

That wiki is violating Wikia's policy; that is a FACT. Read Help:Licensing. Both you and User:RidleyDuchannes have directly copied the content from this wiki and paste it on yours without giving any attribution, not recognizing any of the hard work done by the editors here. Don't even try to pretend that's not what you guys/girls did. Compare w:c:after-the-caster-chronicles:Sarafine Duchannes and Sarafine Duchannes; sans the difference of the infobox design and quote and image selections, the biography and personality sections are basically close-to carbon copies. I'm not pretending that you guys/girls didn't improve the following section and do a superb job on elaboration, because you did; but it's still undeniable that you've used content from this wiki without sourcing.

The design of quote is again another violation. The fundamental workings of the said template isn't something to worry about, however, for it to look exactly how it's looking like right now, that is all thanks to User:SecretCircleMegaFan. You have again not have the decency to attribute the people who've worked on it.

I have no idea why both of you think it was absolutely necessary to create a separate wiki for the spin-offs and additional books, when it was painfully obvious that regardless of that aspect, this wiki itself is heavily in need of help and not exactly up to date. For a person who's not even close to actually being a fan of this series, I am trying my best to maintain this wiki, and when I was given the rights, my mission was also that when much appropriate candidate comes along, I'd have the right to change their user groups. And now isn't that just ironic in epic proportion that real fans don't even want to stick around and went off creating a new wiki while stealing contents from this one? If that's not outright backstabing, it's coming pretty close.

If you want to continue the charade for whatever reason, I'll respect the decision, however, I will also contact Wikia about the violation if it's not taken care of soon. If you are willing to compromise, merging wikis is an offer for you to take. I would properly import the stuff that you guys/girls have had actually worked on and not just copied to the wiki, so that your edits are preserved, and would promote the both of you to Content Moderators first, and judging by your performances, perhaps soon Admins.

It is up to you, but I do wish to hear from you ASAP. I don't know if I simply give people the impression of ruling with an iron fist, so that instead of preposing something, they just fled and try to recreate something rather than helping to modify something that already have a foundation. It is depressing and upsetting. As long as you have valid point, there really is no reason for me to oppose for the sake of doing so. If you wanted the Admin position and showed the effort needed, how and why would I be against it? 