plagarising is not a big deal

ok so im hearing all these things about plagarising but is it really a big deal if its the same character im mean who are you offending your just using a source of information.

Your taking someone's work and calling it your own.

You don't find anything wrong with that?

But it IS a pretty big deal.  If you're taking something that someone else has put a lot of time and effort into writing, and then you call it your own, do you really think that's not a big deal?  What if you were the one who wrote the original text in the first place, would it be a big deal to you then?

At least put references or footnotes

what is the purpose of doing anything if you are just going to copy someone else's hard work? If someone is incapable of writing their own information then they have no business editing.

Plus what Aztek and Korg said.

"ok so im hearing all these things about stealing but is it really a big deal if its not yours of im mean who are you offending your just taking what doesn't belong to you".

FIXED.

Has less to do with stealing or (ha) legality, has more to do with wanting Comicvine to be an original resource.  
 
Red LAMP and Cascader could've easily made another about.com or wiki clone aggregator for comic information, pulled all the information from all the other wikis out there, marvel.com, marvunapp, uncannyxmen, etc, thrown a link back to the original site and its all "legal".  Thats not what they wanted, its their site, we follow their rules. If plagiarism is legal, good luck finding anything to contribute a week later when fesak has every bio filled and a billion points. 
 
All this is beside the point, symbiote5 got at least 3 warnings not to plagiarize and kept trying anyways. So really, inability to follow basic directions is as much a reason to ban as plagiarizing itself.