co-ordination between wikis, and a rogue now-ex-admin

[23:44] <ringtailedfox> yeah, hi.  i'm one of the admins of the Smash Wiki, and we noticed that you copied our entire wiki word-for-word.... we aren't overly impressed, though rather than start a massive war, we were wondering if you guys would mind if we rewrote the articles on your server so they're less.... plagiarized.  re-wording them, basically.
[23:46] <tofucake> i spoke with arrian, and he said it was fine so long as we credit ssbwiki where copies are made
[23:46] <tofucake> which i did with the fox pages
[23:46] <ringtailedfox> mmkay, just checking to confirm this
[23:47] <tofucake> i just got home from anaheim and havent looked at lp yet, but if other people have copied pages well definitely be changing and crediting properly
[23:48] <tofucake> im going to be spending the next week or so going over all the edits since launch
[23:48] <ringtailedfox> that's the thing
[23:48] <tofucake> so hopefully any issues should be resolved in a couple weeks
[23:48] <ringtailedfox> aarian wasn't the one able to give permission. that would be Toomai Glittershine
[23:49] <ringtailedfox> we would have appreciated it if you had asked us in #sw on gamesurge irc directly first...
[23:49] <tofucake> ah
[23:49] <ringtailedfox> the other admins are quite miffed at this whol development, but i came to try to prevent a massive flame war :P
[23:49] <ringtailedfox> *whole
[23:49] <tofucake> the message i got from arrian was toned like he talked to all of you guys and then was speaking for your whole team
[23:49] <ringtailedfox> aarian is a lower-level admin that dosen't have the authority to allow or deny duplication of the wiki
[23:49] <ringtailedfox> he's like.... the janitor
[23:50] <ringtailedfox> you'd need to talk to the executive VP :p
[23:50] <ringtailedfox> but considering this happened, he's probably goign to be the ex-janitor
[23:50] <ringtailedfox> *going
[23:50] <tofucake> i wouldnt go that far
[23:51] <ringtailedfox> how so?
[23:51] <tofucake> he definitely made it clear that it wasnt unanimous full gungho approval
[23:51] <tofucake> 1 sec
[23:51] <ringtailedfox> do you mean |3rian? becuase, i'm looking through our users, and that's the only user that seems similar to this "aarian" fellow... we don't have an admin with that name
[23:51] <tofucake> i guess?
[23:51] <ringtailedfox> |3rian is the janitor
[23:51] <tofucake> hes arrian on TL
[23:51] <ringtailedfox> oh ok
[23:52] <tofucake> http://pastebin.com/MzeGfe2u
[23:52] <tofucake> and ive got some skype convo somewhere
[23:52] <ringtailedfox> lol
[23:52] <ringtailedfox> he logged off when we confronted him on this
[23:52] <ringtailedfox> yeah, he's done.
[23:52] <tofucake> hm
[23:53] <tofucake> well then
[23:53] <ringtailedfox> he was NOT supposed to give you the keys to the mercedes
[23:53] <tofucake> i mean, broadly speaking, and this is probably going to sound kind of dickish
[23:53] <ringtailedfox> that's like the janitor sayign "oh, yeah... i work at the TV station.. lemme get you on camera" when really... you'd have to talk to the VP or general manager to get on the air
[23:53] <tofucake> we're both CC-BY-SA so we dont really need permission as long as everything is sourced
[23:54] <tofucake> but more specifically, id like to not fracture the information sources for smash
[23:54] <tofucake> that wouldnt help anyone
[23:54] <ringtailedfox> i know
[23:55] <ringtailedfox> just... it has to be consensus by the higher-ups (people a rung-up from me, basically... i'm just the messenger... like 'chief janitor' or 'chief technical engineer')..
[23:55] <ringtailedfox> we've had an issue of admins going rogue on the smash wiki over the past week.... this is certainly not helping things