Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-2240864-20180814202900/@comment-2240864-20180814221836

Slimebeast wrote: Maybe I've misunderstood your post, but it sounds like you're only deleting stories if they're marked with a noncopliant license. You must delete all stories with no license stated, as well, regardless of marking. You cannot legally place a license on someone else's work unless the original creator uploaded it while agreeing to your license.

We are looking into removing all content that is non-compliant. This will, in the end, involve the tracking down of the original authors of hundreds if not thousands of creepypasta in order to ascertain whether or not A) the piece was originally posted by the original author and B) what their licensing is.

For those stories that do not have traceable, trackable, verifiable authors I will be contacting staff for advisement on how to proceed. They are not anonymous but rather are internet folklore that has no known original poster or author to attribute. It's not a legal area I feel remotely comfortable touching but the Fandom legal team will likely know how to deal with them (Read: Probably delete, but just making sure, as 4chan issues copyright to the original poster).