User talk:Mysteryman3177

Hello! Welcome to the Custom BIONICLE Wiki! I am Invader39, one of our senior staff members here.

I've seen that you've been busying making edits to a few pages. I noticed that you seem particularly interested in Varian. First off, it's great that you've come to CBW to post your story. That's what we're all about. However, I would recommend that you read our Policy before contributing any further. It'll give you instructions on how to properly format an article.

Another thing is that I saw that you edited Chalk33's own Varian page, adding information without his consent. This is usually frowned upon, and you can read more about this kind of this in the policy.

The last thing I would like to talk to you about is this image. I was just wondering where you acquired this image? Did you make it yourself, or is it somebody else's work? If so, do you have permission from the original creator to use it?

Anyway, that is all. Please read over our policy and happy editing!

Mask of Scavenging Plagiarism
Hello there, Mysteryman3177. I am BobTheDoctor27, the wiki's most senior bureaucrat and content moderator.

I have just deleted your Mask of Scavenging article because it was completely plagiarized from the BS01 article, with plagiarism so pronounced that you even included the in-text footnotes.

As a fan-fiction wiki, we take plagiarism very seriously here. I strongly advise you to familiarize yourself with the relevant section of the Site Rules pertaining to this topic and ensure that this does not happen again.

Please consider this an informal first warning.

Templates
Hi there. I've noticed you're using a lot of outdated templates. It's sort of our fault for having a bunch of non-unified templates, so I'll give you a list of templates that are far more suited for general use: One of the Sleeman bois -  It's   notoriously good. 

Please edit this version of the article. It has been set aside for you to carry out your singular storyline.

Regarding your edits to Alchemist
Hello again.

You've been trying to edit the "Kanohi" field of Alchemist's infobox and the staff team, including myself, have quickly reverted your edits both times.

You do not seem to understand this is not a standard wiki. Instead, it is a fanfiction wiki where users make their own pages and it is their own intellectual property. This is why we have the template. It reads:

Therefore, if you want to edit any page with this message on it, you must contact them, like I am doing so to you now, for permission. Since you are new and not entirely sure of what you are doing, please ask me or the other staff members if you have questions.

One of the Sleeman bois -  It's   notoriously good. 

So I notice a lot of your edits have been getting flagged lately. Allow me to provide an explanation.

First and foremost, I really need you to give the manual of style a good read. It's linked in the above welcome message and it's all over the main page of the site so you can't miss it. There are links and tutorials that will help you properly structure and edit and my fellow administrators have worked tirelessly to make sure that the page is comprehensive enough for new users to read. Before you make another edit, please read that.

Secondly, I need you to understand that this wiki is the resource of a whole community and, as such, the content of our canon pages has to accommodate everyone. As such, any additions we make to canon on this site (like naming certain species, islands, Kanohi, or unnamed characters) has to be decided with the consensus of the userbase.

If a good number of CBW users want the Mask of Scavenging to be named the Kanohi Kesuki, then so it shall be. However, as you have not pitched this idea to us, you are essentially editing over months of collaboration when you make edits like this. That is why you were given your own version of the page to work with outside of the canon 'Mask of Scavenging' field.

Moreover, I would request that you don't edit other users' pages without their permission. Just because you have come up with a name for a certain Kanohi doesn't mean that other people will want to use it.

The staff team is here to help. You need only ask by posting on our talk pages. ChineseLegolas and myself are particularly keen to offer you support where we can, but we do ask that you be more mindful of the wider community.

Best,

As per the site policy (which I expect you to have read by now), the administrative body is content for you to make the Hohapo Nui and Nonaki Nui articles, though I would not say these are especially inspired names.

However, in order to accommodate everyone and maintain some sense of canon compliance, you may not list these pages on the Southern Islands article, the Fe-Matoran article, or any other page that is owned by another user.

Moreover, please end all future talk page messages with: ~ as this will generate a groovy new signature for you to use, like the one I have.

Hello! I am Flamburger.

I have noticed that a few of your articles, such as Kesuki or Mazar, aren't properly formatted in accordance with the wikia format. But that's okay! It's a problem that can indeed be fixed.

The Manual of Style is an article you'll want to give a read, first: and then, I advise you flick through other articles, as I did, to get a general census for proper formatting, grammar, et cetera. Take a look into the source code if you want, to garner an idea of what templates to use, and how to customize them properly.

After that, I advise you look over all your articles, and make sure they're above 2,000 bytes (which is roughly above 2,000 letters), and that they're formatted (i.e wikified) to the best of your extent.

I can only hope I've been of assistance,

Flam burger, for all your rhyming needs. 12:51, August 12, 2018 (UTC)

Howdy there. I already have plans for "Alchemist" in regard to the Kanohi he wore as a Toa, so I must decline your offer.

" El    Capitan    was    here.

Hi,

I saw that you used Ora Nui on at least two of your pages and, as you can see from the link, it's 's creation. So I was wondering if you happened to have asked permission from him to use it in your storyline.

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Hey there.

So I noticed that you uploaded this image today of a Toa Tuyet MOC, and this image of a 3-D Kanohi model. While uploading images isn't bad by itself, the fact that first image was cropped from a Google search and uploaded does raise some concerns. I know you cite Vahki6 on DeviantArt as the source, but I would like to know if you actually have permission from him to upload his creation here.

Typically, when you want to use someone else's creation, you have to ask them permission first. This goes back to 's question about your use of 's Ora Nui, which you have yet to reply to.

From now on, I want you to give some evidence that you have permission to use other people's creations. And, as I said, the image of Tuyet shows up in literally the first row of a Google Images search, and the fact that you obviously (and poorly) cropped it from a screenshot, I can only conclude that you don't have permission from the original creator.

The same goes for Ora Nui and the 3-D render of the Kanohi. Since you haven't provided any evidence that you have permission from their respective creators, and given your track record, I can again only assume that you do not.

And, as you've been told before, please do not substitute your own fanon names for canon articles. Just because you come up with a name for a previously-unnamed Kanohi, doesn't mean you just go ahead and change the article name. If you want the image to use your fanon name, suggest it on the talkpage instead of changing the article.

Cheers.

First Official Warning
Alright.

Since you don't seem to be grasping this, I'm going to explain it in very simple terms.

Number one: Earlier today you uploaded two images that you say that you didn't get permission to use. What part of "Typically, when you want to use someone else's creation, you have to ask them permission first" and "From now on, I want you to give some evidence that you have permission to use other people's creations" did you not understand?

So, let me rephrase it for you: When you use somebody else's creation you have to have permission to do so. I don't care if it's an image, a name, a character, or whatever, you have to have permission.

Number two: You've been told numerous times to not substitute your own fanon names for canon articles. Again, I don't know how you aren't getting this. While I know you created the Mask of Clairvoyance page, that doesn't give you the right to name it. I don't care what you think the name is, the names we use for canon articles are the ones Biosector01 uses. Obviously, this name does not match your fanon one.

Continue to ignore our rules and warnings, and more severe actions will be taken. Consider yourself warned.

Second Official Warning
Hi Mysteryman3177.

Please re-read Invader's previous warning carefully. You have committed the exact same infraction by creating the Onweku article. Furthermore your attempts to distort the original image as a silhouette do nothing to change the fact it has been taken from The 3D Forge's Shapeways page.

As a fan-fiction wiki, we take plagiarism very seriously here. I strongly advise you to familiarize yourself with the relevant section of the Site Rules pertaining to this topic and ensure that this does not happen again.

Since you seem to be developing a pattern of moving on to naming a different canon Kanohi with each instance of plagiarism being detected by the administrative staff, I'm afraid that I simply cannot allow this to go unpunished. Your continued actions are a conscious attempt to weasel around the site rules and superimpose your own preferred canon over the canon shared amongst this community. Please consider this a formal second warning.

One more warning and your account will have to be temporarily suspended, I'm afraid.

At this point I implore you to get in contact with the Staff and discuss what you are doing wrong rather than continuing to make these edits. We can be reached on our User Talk Pages or through Discord and we are more than happy to talk you through your page-creating process. All you need to do is reply to this message and we will happily reach out to you.