Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-34115-20180618163709/@comment-1940096-20180623061604

Dantman wrote: It's come to my attention that we may have an issue with databook translations being used as article text.

Let me be clear on this. Facts are not copyrightable. So, translating databooks and using those facts in infoboxes and as references is ok. Taking facts and info from databooks and using them to write our own article text is ok. Taking a bit of interesting text from a databook and including it as a quote with a source, where it adds to the page, is ok. But taking text from a databook and using it directly as page text in our articles, especially as the main paragraph of an article, is a copyright violation. And it undermines our right to make our articles available to everyone under the license we use for our articles.

We should update our rules to be explicit that databook translations are a good source but using databook text verbatim is not allowed. And we should make an effort to go back through page texts and rewrite them if it appears they are just copied from the databooks. While we're at it, any page text "fact" that is not part of the series but info from a databook should probably be cited.

I know I don't edit much here but that wouldn't be copyright violation under Fair Use which Wikia is under due to being an American company.