Talk:Star Wars Fanon Wiki/Archive3

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Style
Vic will be fiddling with this later. - President Brandon Rhea  (Pressroom) (Record) 19:23, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * This front page needs to be reworked, especially now that we have a Quote of the Week. Take a look at Wookieepedia's main page, for example. We would just have to remove the news section on their page and put something else there, if we were to use their style. I just don't like the huge amount of space taken up by that main box on top. -- Joe Butler (Obi Maul12)  (Chow) 12:32, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * You could just cut your improvement drive or New section since those aren't updated anyway. Then replace it with QOTW and shove that above the Featured Article. Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.svg|20px]] ( Talk page ) 14:09, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Ataru has got the idea down. --Victor (talk) 23:04, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Also, it's really hard to take the "reigns" off of someone or something, but you sure can take the "reins". Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.svg|20px]] ( Talk page ) 21:12, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Bah. --Victor (talk) 22:52, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

It's better, but it looks crammed now and the empty space at the bottom is a little odd. -- Joe Butler (Obi Maul12)  (Chow) 01:31, 17 July 2008 (UTC)


 * There's nothing we can do with it. This is straight from Wikia. - President Brandon Rhea  [[Image:Presidentialseal.gif|27px]] (Pressroom) (Record) 02:04, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Yeah. Lame. --Victor (talk) 03:20, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't think the fact that QOTW is open is news anymore. -- Joe Butler (Obi Maul12)  (Chow) 15:30, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Plus, the QOTW has been the same since at least July 14. It's turning into the QOTMonth. -- Joe Butler (Obi Maul12)  (Chow) 13:32, 21 August 2008 (UTC)


 * The QOTW has not been the same since July 14th. This quote has been up since August 10th, and it had to remain up for this week as well because there weren't any other successful quotes until after Sunday. Please pay attention before telling people that they're not doing something right. - Brandon Rhea (talk) (contribs) 16:07, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Or, Joe, you could stop trying to belittle others' work around here since you, frankly, fail. Try being an active, helpful, nice community member instead. --Victor talk 19:46, 21 August 2008 (UTC) I see my mistake; I forgot that the templates are separate from the main page. But anyway, who's work was I trying to belittle? I don't fail, and I don't think you can say I fail if I don't have any articles. It's not like I think the articles that I created in the past, that I asked to be deleted, were like these super awesome totally perfect articles, and I never said anything like that. Frankly, I was just trying to help point out a mistake, and it turns out I made the mistake. You telling me that I fail has nothing to do with the main page anyway. -- Joe Butler (Obi Maul12)  (Chow) 19:57, 21 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I wasn't referring to your articles. I have no idea why you brought that up. I'm referring to the fact that you keep being sarcastic, with snide comments such as this or picking on Arav when you are just as annoying. This has nothing to do with your articles, never said it did; has to do with your pessimist attitude. --Victor talk 20:01, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

So you were implying that I fail as a community member, or what? It seemed that you meant I failed in my work since you made a comment about others' work in the same sentence. But I'm in an open mind to hear if you think I'm annoying, I really am. Annoying because of my "snide" remarks? -- Joe Butler (Obi Maul12)  (Chow) 20:06, 21 August 2008 (UTC)


 * You're assuming "work" can only refer to articles. It refers to anything done around the community. And yeah, you're annoying because of your remarks, picking on Arav, and trying to tell others how they should act. As for the "fail" comment, it's not to be taken literally; it means you fail at undermining others. --Victor talk 20:12, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Hmm. I seemed to think I was doing better...I'll ask others and see if they think the same. -- Joe Butler (Obi Maul12)  (Chow) 20:15, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

No, I don't think this is correct. I make points to make points; they may appear a bit rude, but they're meant to get a point across. Very few times (if at all) have I said something pointless (e.g. "You stink, this proposal is no good, etc.). -- Joe Butler (Obi Maul12)  (Chow) 20:23, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Copyright infringement
I was looking through Star Wars Fanon's policy pages and, to my surprise, found nothing on copyright right infringement, save a category of copyrighted images. I understand we're too assume good faith (not the most proper use of the policy, but hopefully y'all understand what I'm getting at), but most people don't have the resources to protect their work from others and instead they just manage to expose their stories to all sorts of danger. Say someone take another's ideas and, whether or not they get it copyrighted themselves, post it on here as their own. To the victim's dismay, they can't take legal actions of any kind upon the person stealing the work because there was no official protection on the idea. Such a thing is the main reason I fear making my stories public. So what are our precautions to avoid and deal with such incidents? Or do we have none, and people are just to expect such acts are likely to occur? // ~mikah~  00:34, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
 * It appears that Brandon Rhea once proposed a Plagiarism policy. -- Michaeldsuarez [[Image:Sabersmilygreend.jpg|20px]] ( Talk ) ( Deeds ) 00:38, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

You can't claim copyright over written work posted on SWF. All work is submitted under the GFDL license, which means it can be reposted anywhere. That said, however, we do enforce an Editing Policy that forbids the "theft" of fanon. Essentially, it protects against plagiarism, but you can't claim a copyright over your written work. Claiming a copyright over your written work would, in fact, be in violation of copyright laws. Star Wars and all related trademarks are copyrighted to George Lucas and Lucasfilm Ltd. So, in short, you can't claim copyrights over your work but we can protect against plagerism. - Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) <font color="#1A2BBB">(contribs) 00:39, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Michael: That policy hasn't been made official, so that's probably why I missed it, though I'm definately in favour.
 * Brandon: So basically, copyright can't be claimed without Lucas's permission, or at least something along those lines? // ~mikah~  00:45, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

You can't claim copyright at all. When you post work here, you freely submit it and are granting permission to let people post it elsewhere and distribute it to others. Not only that, but Lucasfilm wouldn't be allowed to let you claim copyright over your work, because they own the trademark. Although I'm saying this in incredibly simple and watered down terms, if you post a story called "Star Wars" about Jedi, Sith, the Force, the Galactic Republic, the Galactic Empire, etc., then they essentially own it because they own the trademarks. George Lucas is simply kind enough to let people write fan fiction and post it online without legal issues. He doesn't have to do that. He could wake up tomorrow, say "no more fan fiction" and this Wiki and other boards such as FanFiction.Net and TF.N Fan Fiction would be over and done with. - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) <font color="#1A2BBB">(contribs) 00:49, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I understand now. Thank you for clearing that up. :) // ~mikah~  00:52, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome. - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) <font color="#1A2BBB">(contribs) 00:53, 24 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Lol. Let's hope he doesn't have a really bad night's sleep then. -- Joe Butler (Obi Maul12)  (Chow) 20:20, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Amen to that. - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) <font color="#1A2BBB">(contribs) 20:24, 30 September 2008 (UTC)