Copying articles from the old wiki

I couldn't agree more with you on the fact that most of LMWikia's recent articles are garbage. What kills me is that, despite this, people are still porting 'em over here (mainly the "Lost Dub" stubbies), and some of our users are even updating articles there!

Honestly, I didn't see much harm for porting the good articles made there (which are about 1 out of 15 articles in general), but as you said, it gives LMWikia users a reason to port our own stuff too, so the best for the LMW would be convincing people from LMWikia (active users who write the above average articles) to give the independent site a chance.

That wasn't what I meant. I hate the Wikia and its users as much as the next guy, but I still feel they have some right to NOT have their articles stolen from them and put in places they don't want it. Keep in mind, the article in question was written a long time after the site-move.
Why do we get to act like we still have total control over them even though the admins have said MANY times that they've broken off and want nothing to do with them? Are we separate except for when it works to our advantage? If you sell your house to somebody, you don't get to come back 3 months later and take their microwave. Once you've given something up, it's not yours anymore. And therefore, it IS plagiarism to steal articles from an unaffiliated site.

Well, the talk of "stolen" content is nonsense, at least from their end. As with most Wikia sites, the content is available under CC-BY-SA.

This means that anyone can use their content, even a website on bad terms with it, provided that they attribute the source and share it under the same license.

So to fulfill the license, this site should simply be stating that the content was copied from LMW, and not claiming any additional copyright over it.

No contributor to the Wikia can claim full copyright as it's incompatible with the terms of the site.

Now, Lost Media Wiki uses a CC BY-NC license. This means attribution, again, as well as no entity being able to use the content for commercial purposes (i.e. a retail book). Nobody can claim full copyright or ownership to their text, again, under such a license.

This is trickier legally for the Wikia because their license doesn't prevent commercial use. So really, they shouldn't be copying Lost Media Wiki content, because it does contravene the license here. They would also need to attribute this Wiki.

So both sites are probably breaking each other's license a little bit, but the Wikia is the one that it's more troublesome for.

I hope this explains it better?

Alright, so maybe it's not plagiarism in the eyes of the law, but it still goes against the site's rules:
There have been plenty of articles that were deleted for being Wikipedia copy/pastes, so I don't see why this is different.

Also, as far as this goes:
Retrogamefan9000 is usually good about mentioning who wrote the articles he copies over (though he does it in the submission notes, where nobody looks), but for the article in question, no indication was made whatsoever that it wasn't written by the person who created the page.

And I'm fine if I'm proven wrong on this matter. If dycaite came in here right now and told me to fuck off I would love that (not that I expect him to - just a little joke). I just want clearance on this issue one way or the other, and I'm getting a little upset that the mods have deliberately ignored it for this long.