Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-25052433-20150919183325/@comment-25052433-20150921032133

@Humboldt: To try and answer your question, if someone takes your work to Facebook, you can contact them and ask them to give you credit, siting the Commons. I've actually had to do this a couple of times, as a guy on Wattpad was attempting to write a Tobit spinoff, and I wasn't credited. I contacted him and he was very gracious about adding my name and giving me credit for the orignal idea.

If he had refused, I would have had to go through the admins on that site and link them to here, proving that I was the orignal author, at which point they would have made him either credit me or remove the content. The same can be done with Facebook or anywhere else that has admins and such.

However, none of that is here nor there, when speaking of this proposal thread. Jeff the Killer, the pasta, was actually borrowed from a Youtube video going back to 2008. So, the pasta itself was written under Commons permission. As far as money goes, that is up to the author to follow-up on. I have pastas protected under the non-profit Commons, but since Youtube readings generate such amazing exposure, I wouldn't be interested in demanding that the Youtuber take them down.

If this does pass, and the story happens, I will personally ensure that a large disclaimer is provided, giving all credit to where credit is due. In no way will the community be lead to believe that what we produce come the end of October is the orignal Jeff the Killer.

Furthermore, this will be the only deleted story that is allowed to return. There need be no fear of other blacklisted characters being allowed back. Who knows, maybe this will turn into a Halloween tradition where such stories are considered once a year, but as of right now, that is nothing to worry about.

Also, stories that are deleted are done so because they, at the time, don't meet the QS. So, if this new addition meets the standards, then it deserves a place here. If there is heat afterwards, it will be dealt with. After all, we dealt with it when chat was shut down, we dealt with it when Jeff was deleted, and most recently, when Jack was deleted.

Win, lose or draw, I have confidence that if there is any community of writers that can turn this into something amazing, then it's the pool of writers right here on CP Wiki. We spin gold from thin air all the time, and this is no different.

Does the Wiki need a new Jeff the Killer, of course not. But it doesn't need Hyraaq Tobit either, but that would never stop me from writing them. This will be a challenge to the community, but I believe fully that it will be a challenge worth rising to.