Talk:Dead Island

taking material with no attribution

A very good portion of this article, including pictures is from www.deadislandwiki.com and is not attributed to that site. Anno1404 01:26, 3 November 2012 (EDT)

I'm gonna guess AK47Productions lifted the info. This user has done so several times across a few pages... The user mentions the source on their user page, but not in the article itself, apparently. Huh.--Celice 02:40, 3 November 2012 (EDT)

I'm going to guess that you have no clue how things work here Anno. So let me break it to you easily, instead of resorting to breaking a foot off in some asses verbally, which is normally the first thing I do.

First off, while we do lift content from other sites (I mean, it's obvious, look at our Call of Duty articles, except for the Modern Warfare 3 article which I created and took NOTHING from the Call of Duty Wikia because they had nothing listed at the time) , we do re-word things so it's not a blatant copy-paste. Obviously, we haven't gotten around to rewording things on this particular article.

Secondly, this is an unused content-specific "wiki". While this "dead island wiki" website (which from what I can only guess at this point in time, you, Anno1404, are from), is all about Dead Island, this article merely documents unused content. It's not a huge loss, so we'd really appreciate less crying about this type of thing. Eventually, either myself or AK47Productions will run through this and reword things.

Finally, if you have any further issues, and would like to further discuss said issues, feel free to take it up with me either on my talk page, through Steam, or hell, even through my GameBanana.com page.

And no, to answer a potential question, I'm not an Administrator here. I'm just a normal user who also lifted content from the abhorrent Call of Duty Wikia for several Call of Duty articles, and has been too busy with working full time to pay for my recently-purchased 2004 Chevy Blazer to actively edit here on TCRF. Now you can get back to your little Dead Island wiki, because unless you're here to actively contribute, you may as well just leave and don't bother further posting here because you'll just end up quickly banned. 404 User Not Found 05:51, 4 November 2012 (EST)

EDIT Actually, I see that Celice has had some scattered edits on this Wiki here and there, so I'll leave Celice out of this, as he/she appears to be a regular. But as for Anno, that stupid random tagging of things from this article with the link to your Wiki is unnecessary, and I've since reverted all your edits. 404 User Not Found 05:56, 4 November 2012 (EST)

FINAL EDIT As for the screenshots, nice incorrect source-tagging, I've finished reverting all the edits. I'm probably going to get Dead Island just so I can take higher-quality and higher-resolution screenshots of this stuff for TCRF, so we can get rid of the current, low-res, low-quality shit images that were taken from the Dead Island Wiki. 1440x900 res, bitches :D 404 User Not Found 06:03, 4 November 2012 (EST)

[user was banned for this rant]

Also, we really don't need 1440x900 screenshots here, unless the added resolution reveals otherwise invisible details; it's just a massive waste of disk space, which we are currently sorely lacking. 1280x720 is just fine (and I'd even be okay with 800x600 in most cases). --BMF54123 07:26, 4 November 2012 (EST)

(well, that was rather flippant--but for the sake of clarity, no, I was not nor have been from whatever wiki, nor is there reason to suppose I was simply because I pointed out a tendency on the site from a member who has had problems in the past with lifting without sources (as in, direct copy-pasting) and who happened to have worked on the article before. If that ran long enough. Personally, I don't care if someone is going to reference another site, but stating that reference on the page itself is something I support, as a casual member who's followed the TCRF project for a while now. We are archiving the nifty things left in our games, and utilizing all the resources available, including sources already researched, is nice. But I would like to keep a tally of sources present, both for honorable mentions, and also for fact-checking the validity of the source. End parenthetical.)--Celice 02:55, 5 November 2012 (EST)