Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-2240864-20180814202900/@comment-36292647-20180814224528

MrDupin wrote: 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.

Content posted on the wiki (and any wiki) is by default licensed as CC-BY-SA. This is stated on the front page (also on the terms of service and the licensing agreement). Ignorance of this is not an excuse. People who didn't read this and posted their story on here agreed to post this under the particular license, so these stories will not be deleted unless the authors want to. What they are saying is that we cannot license stories we don't own the copyright to under the CC-By-SA license.

Example, someone uploads a story they found online but don't attribute it or add a license header. In this case we would need to get into contact with the poster to find out if they are the author. If they are not the author then we need to either delete the pasta, as the author did not agree to license it, or track down the author and see if they will license it under CC-By-SA.