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This page is the voting stage of this discussion: "Don't cite videos from the SpongeBob YouTube channel."
With all concerns from the concern stage of this discussion having been resolved and taken into account, the proposal located in the "Proposal" section above has been created and moved to voting. To join the voting, you simply use buttons located in the "Voting" section of this page and fill the resulting page.
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Proposal
Scrooge200 is proposing the following:
This proposal concerns the SpongeBob official YouTube channel. These videos are made by the social media team and not writers or storyboard artists, and they are infamous for taking information from fan-sites like this one. Some examples:
- The video on SpongeBob's family tree, being an adaptation of the SquarePants family page, uses the name "Prehistoric Gary," which is taken from its conjectural article on the wiki. The image used for Grandpa SquarePants is the exact same as the one used on the article, except slightly brightened. Todd SquarePants's image is directly stolen from ESB, with the same scan lines and all.
- This video on one second from every SpongeBob episode is badly researched, containing multiple labeling errors and swapped clips, even having leaked a scene from "Plankton's Old Chum" before its official airdate.
- The Krabs family tree video uses the unofficial name of "Prehistoric Krabs," taken from ESB.
- One of the biggest pieces of evidence is that the Squidward family tree video uses the name "Squeeze" for Squidward's cousin from "Stanley S. SquarePants." This is a completely unofficial name and was made up by wiki editors, and clearly the social media team took it as real.
We've had a similar form of plagiarism in the SpongeBob SquarePants Experience book, which had unofficial names, stolen fan-art, and other factual mistakes. I propose that we handle these videos in the same way: they can have articles, but we point out any mistakes and don't use them as official sources.
If supported, this will also apply to the official Twitter account (which has been seen using fan-crops from this site) and the SpongeBob QuestPants games (for example, The Legend of Dead Eye Gulch uses the name "Abigail Marge" for Abigail (light blue fish), taken from a then-current revision on this wiki) Scrooge200 (talk) 21:33, February 16, 2020 (UTC)
The voting stage will conclude on February 28, 2020, at 6:26 PM EST. Anthony2306 (W•C•L•E) 23:26, February 21, 2020 (UTC)
Voting
Support - Anthony2306 (W•C•L•E) 23:26, February 21, 2020 (UTC)
Neutral - Oldieyoungie (W•C•L•E) 19:12, February 21, 2020 (UTC)