User blog:Loney 97/Apology on Behalf of the Admins

After investigating Wikia's image policy, the admins have found that any image uploaded to the wiki belongs to the entire wiki and may be used, with proper credit, in any way. This means that the morph image uploaded by Benboy which used pictures of Izzy, Ked, and AmazingPythor was not an infringement of the rights of any of those users.

While the picture of Izzy had been deleted from the wiki 4-5 months ago, unless we can prove the Benboy used his Content Moderator rights to obtain the image by restoring it and did not download it before it was deleted, which we cannot, it is impossible to prove he did anything wrong and therefore we must unblock him. This does not mean that what he did was right, a good Content Moderator should understand that many people are sensitive about the use of their property being used without their permission, but it does mean that we cannot hold him accountable according to the policy.

I personally apologize on behalf of the admin team, we screwed up and jumped the gun before going through all the proper licensing and we are sorry for that and hope that we will learn from this and do better in the future. As it is, we're currently writing up a proper image policy for this wiki to cover this sort of thing and we should have that up within the next couple days.

Thank you for your understanding.