I apologize that this isn't much of a suggestion, but perhaps more of a question. Can you see who has edited a manga entry last? I'm a user over at MyAnimeList and write original summaries for some manga. These summaries often find their way here uncredited. If I come across one, I credit it (example Papa I Love You) and move along. However, someone is being cute with the manga Tengu Onmyoudou and keeps deleting the credit after I add it.

Is there a way to view who has edited something and contact them? Or is there a way to lock it so no changes can be done? Or can a mod deal with it accordingly? I obviously spend time reading the books and writing the summaries and don't like them being stolen.

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That's funny, because a lot of descriptions I write end up on MAL, ANN, and other places. I just chalk it up to people finding the description helpful, which is my goal.

Honestly, it is really annoying when a description is locked. I've run into several that are descriptions of one shots, and I can't edit it to add the actual description.

Well, if you are that upset about people stealing descriptions, perhaps you shouldn't write them? You don't own the actual writes to anything, so you can't really demand that people not share them.

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Well, if you are that upset about people stealing descriptions, perhaps you shouldn't write them? You don't own the actual writes to anything, so you can't really demand that people not share them.

Actually I believe that under copyright law, the creator automatically owns all rights, unless they're specifically disclaimed/sold/given/etc. and others are not allowed to reproduce them without giving credit. Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's the way it works, at least in the US.

"[English] not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary."
-James Nicoll, can.general, March 21, 1992

Actually I believe that under copyright law, the creator automatically owns all rights, unless they're specifically disclaimed/sold/given/etc. and others are not allowed to reproduce them without giving credit. Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's the way it works, at least in the US.

Yes, but the creator has to prove that they are the original creator in order to utilize these rights, which is next to impossible after they release their writing on to a public server before copyrighting it. This pretty much makes the rights a moot point (except from an ethics point of view). Anyways, I'm not sure whose being a tool and removing your credit, probably someone who saw the summery before it had your name by it, and figured you were trying to take credit where credit is not due.

Double dino to micro crimp!!!

Actually, the funny thing is that I posted it a mere 30 minutes to MAL (it's still unapproved so it's technically hard to find) and always have the tag line (Source: shinkeikaku) in my entries. So they removed it knowingly.

Lots of other descriptions are credited in this database, from US companies to scanalator groups, so I don't see why this should be treated any differently.

If they find it useful, great. Just reproduce it exactly as they found it.

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