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Wouldn't that mean you need a ref link on everything?
Fragment of a discussion from User talk:Tanino
Hello Tanino. Do you remember me? I remember you from mabimml.co. I'm glad to see you're still a passionate member of the Mabinogi community. However, you're a bit misguided in your passion. Even though I am a wiki staff member here, I hope you will listen to my opinion of the matter:
- Your understanding of the legal issues that you are worried about are not as complete as you may think they are. I assure you that your concerns about copyright infringement or plagiarism are unfounded and the wiki does not have any legal problems.
- When Kadalyn said that Nexon doesn't care, it wasn't an assumption. It was a fact. Kadalyn has personally spoken to Nexon staff members in the past and gotten the OK for various things. Although I don't know the contents of all their discussion, I'm certain that if she says something is OK, then it is OK.
- I see you are trying to use other examples from the wiki to back up your argument. As a counter response, I would also like to point out that the wiki is edited by a lot of different people with a lot of different ideas of how things should be done. Incidentally, the majority also do not read the wiki policy. As a result, inconsistencies will happen and sometimes these inconsistencies aren't caught by the staff. We're only human after all. References are, on this wiki, used to cite word-for-word descriptions taken from official Nexon announcements. Using it in any other way is not the currently intended use and should be removed. Enforcing things like this is a staff member's job. We don't do it because we want to piss people off.
- Threats are not the best way to get people to do what you want, especially when the people you are trying to threaten know you cannot follow through on the threat. When you threaten someone, you are showing that you have no respect for them. In return, the threatened party has no reason to respect you either. If you don't remember, you started the conversation with a threat and so all respect was gone from the very beginning.
- As stated previously, there is a procedure to how major changes are made to the wiki. If you still believe that references are necessary even though there is no legal issue, then please start a civil discussion. If you can show that the majority of the community would like to see references, then we can change how we handle references. My personal opinion of this matter is that requiring references has a chance of decreasing the amount of new editors, which is not desirable.