All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XI

[Bob Schroeck]

Should we give him another tempban for consistently ignoring style and content guidelines and all but ignoring admin communications?

The first tempban didn't seem to do anything. Would a second one be different?

Let's try it for a week.  He's already doing stuff again -- like using abbreviations for no good reason in example text ("the name was equiv to a... citation" in an example I'm editing at this moment) -- that we warned him off of.  I'll start with an "Answer this with more than a thanks or else" message on his page, though.

Can I get folks to take a look and weigh in on whether we keep the page or not, please?  Thanks.

Ooh, tricky. Is that a sufficiently new work that copyright wouldn't apply, or a translation and thus a derivative work? I don't know copyright law that well.

I'm supposedly something close to an expert because of my pro writing and I'm not sure.  My gut is saying it's too close -- and that she's done too many of them to excuse it as an accident.  (The thing is, she's not doing it out of malice, just a bad idea of what constitutes "original"; I don't want to discourage her from contributing, because we need all the active contributors we can get.  But she's also yea-shy of being functionally illiterate, and is actually as much trouble to clean up after as Jason Taylor is.)  But we need to cover ourselves legally, so I think we need to make a concerted group effort to find and fix or delete anything that reads too closely to a TVT counterpart.