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With regards to the users you mentioned, we have seen quite a few people pretend to be staff, but these are just kids who think they sound cool, rather than deliberately causing trouble. Of course we won't allow them to pretend, and we will stop them if they do, but we don't ban people just for showing off. Thanks for letting me know - [[User:Gboyers|Gboyers]] 00:29, 19 April 2011 (BST) | With regards to the users you mentioned, we have seen quite a few people pretend to be staff, but these are just kids who think they sound cool, rather than deliberately causing trouble. Of course we won't allow them to pretend, and we will stop them if they do, but we don't ban people just for showing off. Thanks for letting me know - [[User:Gboyers|Gboyers]] 00:29, 19 April 2011 (BST) | ||
== Re: GTA Wikia == | |||
{{reply|gboyers|GTA Wikia}} | |||
Hi again. Firstly, I appreciate you getting in touch and making an effort to resolve this dispute amicably. However, I don't appreciate you saying that I should be "[http://gta.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Owen1983&diff=prev&oldid=310884 punished]". I'm not sure how much you know about the history of these two wikis, but I'm sure you know that I founded them and with the community decided to move here. | |||
I'm also not sure how much you know about the licencing of the two wikis. Grand Theft Wiki's content is licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA), which permits anyone the privilege of re-using and adapting our content, providing that you attribute the work in the manner specified by the licensor (me). As specified on Grand Theft Wiki's [[Project:Copyright|Copyright policy]], we specify the requirements for attribution to be "linking back to this site on each page our content has been used on". | |||
As Wikia and its users have failed to provide this correct attribution on multiple occasions, despite several opportunities and promises to cease this activity - and thus breached the licence - the CC-BY-SA agreement is automatically terminated, as per section 7.a of the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode full licence text]: | |||
{{quote|7. Termination<br> | |||
This License and the rights granted hereunder will terminate automatically upon any breach by You of the terms of this License.}} | |||
This means that since Wikia has breached the licence, it is terminated, and Wikia is no longer permitted to use Grand Theft Wiki's content under the CC-BY-SA licence. This means that Wikia can not copy any content from GTW, even if they provide attribution, and normal full copyright rules apply. | |||
I hope you realise that I'm only trying to protect the users that have contributed to Grand Theft Wiki over the past 5 years. Wikias disregard of our users, their rights, and their wiki is very disappointing; and this is why we moved. [[User:Gboyers|Gboyers]] 17:54, 29 May 2011 (BST) | |||