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Someone needs to edit this article to LESS resemble Gauntlet's article from Mechanical Maniacs, as currently it's a direct copy, isn't that against Wiki policy?

If you want to create some basic information about the game, sure you can use my article as reference, but plagerising it isn't cool! It was copied, basically, word-for-word with the same headings and the same facts in the same order as my own article! I wasn't even asked. At least a link was given, but even so it isn't cool.

So, I reverted it to it's form BEFORE it was copied. If you want to write an article - do it right. Put it into YOUR OWN words.

-Gauntlet

really? it was copied? when i went to your site i couldn't even understand what you were saying...it was like you were talking to youself....yeah the article does resembels yours a bit...but i guess whoever wrote it here changed it...and you dont have a copyright for your work yet! i mean do you even know whats copyright is? dang if your that sellfish why put an article about this game in net!? hehehehe come on man if someone makes an article about megaman 8 i bet it would be the same as yours too since that is the gameplay and story of the game(DUH!)....just come down...when people would read it in wikipedia its just like raeding in you site...THATS WHY YOU MADE YOUR SITE TO SHARE THINGS ABOUT THE GAME! anyways no offense or anything like those...im just sharing what i think about this whole copyright stuff...i even thought you were the one who wrote this article in wikipedia....but i guess with you reacting like this to an article....no comment.....your funny....try to learn and understand more things about copyright and if you really think your article is that IMPORTANT then put a trademark or patent to protect your works but thats gonna cost you a lot, i guess...hehehehehe...remember calm down..its not the end of the world!

i dunno whadya think about this boys and girls out there?

-psychomantis101

• pff*

Obviously it's YOU who needs to read up on copyright law.

If you REALLY WANT an article about the game up write a WHOLE NEW ONE. There's dozens of ways to do it. You don't have to copy mine,

-Gauntlet

hi Gauntlet, its me servebot_1 i am very sorry if i made you mad or in a way hurt you by using your article. I never thought that this would be so important to you. i really hope that you would forgive me, i mean megaman fans shouldn't be fighting, we should be sharing mega man to the world together. i am very sorry...well next time if i make another rockman stategy article in wiki or any site can i at least get some info from your site? if thats ok with you...and i promise i will not copy it word per word...and one thing though i never got the pics from you site, i got it in some megaman forum...hoping for your forgiveness...

- servebot_1 (talk)

servebot_- Apology accepted. But, just so you know: The forum got those pics from MY site as my site is the VERY FIRST site on the net with any really good information about the game on it. In fact, my site was the first english-speaking site to acknowledge the game's existence. So, if there's info on the game or pictures ..... it came from my site and my article.

Just be wary: people put ALOT more effort in things like articles, sprites, or images than you may think. Nobody likes to see it ripped off elsewhere. Ripping things off may be reality for the net, but on sites like Wikipedia we can fight back against such things, so .... we will!

If you want to write your OWN article that uses some information my article contains, you can. But DON'T copy it word-for-word. Make it CLEAR my article came first and that I didn't get my information from Wikipedia.

-Gauntlet

Psychomantis101, you refer to the Copyright article, but have you read it yourself? Gauntlet doesn't need to put a copyright notice on his website at all. The server that the website is on is hosted in the US so US law applies. In the US, you do not need to include a copyright notice on your work.

"This requirement was generally the result of previous United States statutory requirements, but since 1989 in the U.S., the use of copyright notices has become optional."

"A copyright notice is no longer required for a work to be covered by copyright in jurisdictions which have acceded to the Berne Convention. In most jurisdictions a work may be copyrighted from the moment of its creation regardless of whether or not it bears a copyright notice."

Unless Gauntlet created the article before 1989 (which it isn't at all), it's still copyright violation.

82.171.44.126 17:17, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

hey gauntlet, im from the Philippines i see alot of those rockman stategy here in stores, considering my country is near china...hehehe...its good to hear that you have the game too. i agree with servebot_1, megaman fans shouldn't be fighting. And to servebot_1 its nice to know that your a pinoy too...

-madzdogz69

-madzdogz69

That's pretty lucky! I had to rely on a guy named "Rockman X" to get me the one I have.

-Gauntlet

I've deleted the exact quote someone else made from my article on the story, just like the previous issue. As for a list of bosses being put in the article - I don't mind (it's pretty fair to say what bosses are in a game) so I didn't delete that section.

-Gauntlet