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@Darkknight2149: You state that the current revision is a "direct copy" from your writing on the Fandom page. This says there is only a "16% likely similarity". If you feel there is a copyright violation (or technically a copy paste without attribution since the license is CC-BY-SA), instead of blanking and leaving errors on the page, add a {{Copypaste}} template. The proper way. Also, I can tell you that the filming section was written directly by me and in no way a copy of your Fandom page, that I most certainly don't read. Mike Allen 17:57, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The majority of the text I removed was copied almost word-for-word from the Wiki, and I was alarmed to see that this page has a long extensive history [1][2] of copying text from there. My suggested solution would be to take the text that was removed and give the syntax a full makeover by rewording/restructuring it to resemble the original source as little as possible. (Mainstream Wikipedia has a CC-BY-SA license, but I'm unsure if that applies to Fandom Wikis, which are a separate entity.) Darkknight2149 18:06, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The copying appears to have started around 2 December, to be precise:

https://silenthill.fandom.com/wiki/Return_to_Silent_Hill?oldid=211424

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Return_to_Silent_Hill&direction=next&oldid=1125166161

Darkknight2149 18:10, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I wasn't aware that it was copied from Fandom (like I said, I don't read it) when I came to the then-drafted article. First edit Feb 15, 2023 I trimmed down what was there because it was not written (nor sourced correctly) in a tone for Wikipedia. See here. What is left is just a paraphrase of the sources that remain. The filming section had nothing to do with your writing, but it is also being removed by you. I think the revision you keep removing satisfies any copy and paste concerns. I will be escalating this further for additional insight. Mike Allen 18:23, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I reinstated the filming section (it got lumped in with everything else), but I think the other part is still highly similar to text in the other article, even if it's trimmed down. That was the first thing I noticed when I clicked on the article. Darkknight2149 18:37, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Mainstream Wikipedia has a CC-BY-SA license, but I'm unsure if that applies to Fandom Wikis, which are a separate entity, all Fandom Wikis are under CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported, unless otherwise noted (which is not the case for this specific wiki). CC-BY-SA 3.0 is compatible with CC-BY-SA 4.0 so this is not a case of copyright violation as much as a lack for attribution, which can be supplied with {{Fandom content}} -- Asartea Talk | Contribs 19:28, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]