Forums > Off Topic > Wikipedia's Borg-like content assimilation
BdR (7207) on 2/11/2012 12:46 PM · Permalink · Report
There was a thread about Wikipedia taking MobyGames screenshots (here), but I guess by now we're at the point where Wikipedia can just take any content, and nobody really seems to care.
Just name any site and it's content can be found on Wikipedia, just do a simple google search -> mobygames, ign.com, toucharcade, destructoid, gamasutra, gamesetwatch, imdb etc.
Wikipedia is like the Borg "You will be assimilated! We will add your distinctiveness to our own!". Any thoughts on this?
Starbuck the Third (22596) on 2/11/2012 3:37 PM · Permalink · Report
Well, if it's anything to go by, that picture shown in the old thread you linked is now gone.
Maybe they peed the pants in terror, having been rumbled and removed it.
Lain Crowley (6629) on 2/11/2012 4:57 PM · Permalink · Report
If you see something on wiki that's straight up plagiarism just remove it with a note saying as much. You can get into roll-back fights with people over dissenting opinions or "original research", but no one is going to argue with you over plagiarism. I've done that myself over a few wiki articles that plagiarized my game descriptions I've written here on moby.
teresa swan on 3/12/2012 8:07 AM · edited · Permalink · Report
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