All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI

[GethN7]

The new trope workshop page for Put on a Prison Bus is obviously a slightly paraphrased version from the other wiki.

• The image is the same, featuring a black "Prison Bus" with stop signs that say "Party in Progress", and the caption is also a rendition of "The Wheels on the bus", albeit with a different ending.
  
• The first few words of the article are exactly the same, and the overall organization is the same.
  
• Redlinks tropes we don’t have.
  
• Pokémon examples are paraphrased and in reversed order.
  
• Etc…
  

I’m not against someone expressing this trope in the workshop, and it appears there is at least a little original content but I don’t think it is safe to build off this proposal. My opinion is that it should be deleted, and that a new entirely original proposal be made from scratch if the users of the wiki would like to add this trope.

Concur. It should be done "clean room", as in, aside from the name, no one should even LOOK at TV Tropes to avoid impropriety. In fact, I just looked it over, and yeah, this is way too much of a similarity that I'm comfortable with, so for the sake of the legal safety of the wiki, I'm going to delete it and I'm going to inform the user responsible we want this done "clean room style" or not at all.

Made a more legally safe version here:

https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Trope_Work...Prison_Bus

I'd like a second opinion, since I know that I’ve jumped the gun before.

I think the first paragraph of what was recently added for the reapers series is much the same in origin, but not the second paragraph.

Checked the history on TV Tropes, nigh all of it matches his own contributions there. I suggest he be encouraged to add that to his edit reasons to avoid confusion, with the caveat that we will check to be sure.