The Wiki Controversy

[BIGjuevos]

Hello,

I thank you for your concern.

I got the pics from http://www.freewebs.com/superorange, the nerf hasbro website, and a few from the NHQ wiki.

I have also attributed them(the images) to their original owners at http://www.nerfwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Nerf

Also note, that upon proper citing, a reference (such as our wiki) can use copyrighted material within reasonable boundaries, as long as proper credit is attributed.  For example, Hasbro can't sue use for using the word Nerf, as we are using it using the terms above, it is the same thing with pictures on the internet.  It would be infringing on the (copy)rights if I used the images on T-Shirts and sold them, without permission from the owner.

Also, I don't see why everyone is upset, at no point in time did we try to take them out, we have links to their site all over our sites, does NH(or the other sites for that matter) return the favor in kind (I truly don't know)?

I asked someone to try and make peace first(which might have been you, I'm not sure who it is, I can't keep track of all of this, I do this Foam Universe and NerfWiki thing on the side out of kindness), and offer to open up a domains I paid for, to better the Nerfing community.

Please don't interpret this as me complaining, I am simply questioning so I can get some more information on what is going on, as I am not around all of the time.

PS - it is a Wiki, The pictures can be removed.  All I ask is that the modifier's post a comment claiming copyright infringement, or a complaint of their choice.  There we can formally debate the legitimacy of this issue, instead of doing this behind closed doors.

I really would like to work this out,  I would love to have nerfwiki.org become a central focus point for the NIC to gather around; howver, I would not like to force it upon the community, that would be considered unreasonable.

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Sincerely,
   BIGjuevos (Webmaster of Foam Universe and NerfWiki)

[Megaman_90]

I do perhaps think we should remove the Wiki entirely. It was a noble idea, but...Perhaps we could have poll?