Thread:Asteria52/@comment-1519608-20141022043143

Hello Asteria52. I am LostInRiverview, an administrator and bureaucrat on The Sims Wiki. I am contacting you because of an issue regarding your wiki's use of Template:Pagecover without providing proper attribution.

Content added to Wikia, including content added to The Sims Wiki and the Tapped Out Wiki, is generally copyrighted or copyrightable material that is shared under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 (Creative Commons Share-Alike) license. The license stipulates that the persons adding content freely allow that content to be used elsewhere so long as the same right of free use is applied to all derivative works, and that proper attribution is given to the originating author and subsequent authors of that work.

This issue is relevant to Template:Pagecover, since the template was copied off The Sims Wiki. However, the template, template documentation, and page history do not provide any proper attribution. The template documentation provides attribution to the Arrested Development Wiki, where the code for the template originates. However, the template was extensively modified after it was added to The Sims Wiki, and ultimately it is that modified code which was copied to this wiki.

For the sake of adhering to CC-BY-SA, I am requesting that you make an addition to the template documentation for Template:Pagecover, which gives attribution to the Arrested Development wiki as original authors, as well as The Sims Wiki for subsequent contributions. As an example of how to do this, I've pasted a copy of The Sims Wiki's attribution statement from our copy of this template.

This template is originally based off of a series of templates from the Arrested Development Wiki, including: w:c:arresteddevelopment:Template:Appearances, w:c:arresteddevelopment:Template:NewCharacter, and others of a similar design. Revision histories for each of those templates is available on the Arrested Development wiki. The original source template has been modified and adapted to The Sims Wiki; the template's revision history and list of contributors is available here.
 * Attribution and Credit

''The text of this template is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC-by-SA) license. Please review the CC-by-SA license text for more information.''

Please let me know if you have any questions, comments or concerns about this. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. 