Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-7292165-20180617235445/@comment-27797856-20180618095858

Oh jeeezzz.....

Ok, let me explain meeself, seeing as dis was I who caused this issue.

@Rai: Your edit was not reverted to keep the databook translation intact. It was reverted for: a) Being a completely useless and baseless edit that exchanges a good overview for a mediocre one. b) Omitting parts of the function of the technique (like Shukaku having to pound its belly, and how the technique can level a forest), and having poor flow. The former is very much an important detail because what you omitted are facts.

EDIT: As you can see, I didn't go out of my way to revert every single edit like that you've did. Had the premise of my revert been "Oh, let's keep everything like in the databook", I would've taken my time to revert literally everything. Though I do wonder whether I should take a second look into whether you've omitted more facts

WindStar7125 wrote: Dantman wrote: Bigger issue, if text is translated verbatim from databooks the person adding it doesn't have the rights to it. Using it as page text that is supposed to be CC-BY-SA is a copyvio. If we're using verbatim text it should be quoted with a source attribution so we're at least not claiming we wrote it. At minimum any information coming from a databook should be properly cited with a reference to which databook and page it came from. I'm of the mindset that this should include ages, heights, weights and blood types inside infoboxes. I recall bringing this up before, but I've always wondered why those sections in infoboxes never had any visible references. Especially since we'd have editors calculating ages and inserting them in infoboxes willy-nilly in the past. That's a very good idea, actually. It's very hard to keep track of which age is correct and which isn't because nobody else really bothers with providing sources when adding the ages.

Like, Naruto's page for example, is pretty hard to miss, but if we're talking about a minor side character, like... I dunno... Shizune, for example, one would probably not even bother asking for a source...