Plagiarism protection

I was in the middle of writing my initial message to this thread when the notification for yours (much shorter and very straight to the point) popped, adrian. You beat me to it! Nice. I also pointed out something to the effect of how something may have originated on IMDb but wound up copied onto another website (say, a crowd-sourced one), perhaps not even by the same contributor. The proposed tool would only really be viable for use against those who explicitly take credit for work that originated from a well-identified somebody else. The way trivia items, goof items et al. work on IMDb, there is no attribution, unlike how IMDb's plot summary items and mini bio items work.

@adrian​ 

I check where they appear first.

On Wikipedia and some other sites you can also see who wrote what. And often items are duplicated without regard for formatting differences in ways that make it clear that it is just copy-paste.

The fact that the editing histories of articles on Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia sites) is public information is the best aspect of its whole infrastructure. I still wish that IMDb at least allowed us to see the dates in which other people's contributions were made, even if we wouldn't be allowed to see the handles of the contributors.

@jeorj_euler​ 😀

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb

Has References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb#References

IMDb does not ??

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IMDb title pages and IMDb name pages both have external sites listings, yes, and the discomfort of navigating from a trivia page to an external sites page is by no means hard to imagine. I remember when title FAQ items could accommodate hyperlinks to anywhere. That was great. When the system was migrated from the software platform from the generation before previous to the last generation software platform, such a functionality was removed. Now the hyperlinks can be only to for tconsts and nconsts, maybe cconsts, not even uconsts. How frustrating.

@jeorj_euler​ 

I didn't say IMDb had to reject all flagged items, but they could require an explanation, for example.

This post is not about deleting live items, but about avoiding poor quality items in the first place.

@eboy​ 

Of course not 100% copy-and-paste

You don't disagree, then.