A Contributor with over 90 guides deleted all their contributions!?

Trachea144 is a contributor who was previously ranked in the top 100 most prolific authors with over 90 contributions. I got to know him quite well because we were both working on the N64 library, and I am glad to call him a friend. Thanks to his efforts the N64 library of guides was almost complete. We were both working on this pretty hard the last year. I translated about 51 Japanese manuals and he wrote guides for the rest of the NTSC games, in less than about 6 months.

Suddenly the other week I noticed that all his guides were gone. Either he deleted them all, or they were removed. Trachea has not replied to any of my pms for over a month. Can admin share any light on this issue?

I know he had a habit of quoting from manuals for some of his guides, so perhaps there were some copyright concerns? But he wrote at least two translations of Japanese games and many other guides which were all his own work. I think its a great loss of knowledge of obscure games.

I really hope this is not another case of mysteriously losing another online friend :(

Edit
Looking at his profile page it seems he still has a level 6 author badge? So did he just take down his guides to re-write them?

OK, this sounds really interesting. @Devin_Morgan any idea?

Plagiarism is taken seriously here.

Well that isn't good O_O

Devin Morgan posted...

Plagiarism is taken seriously here.

What kind of copyright infringement was the author involved in?

oof... >_>

Thanks for clearing up the mystery.

Devin Morgan posted...

Plagiarism is taken seriously here.

Thanks for the response. Could you share any light on how many of his guides had problems?

I still haven't gotten any response from him. We were both pretty caught up in trying to complete the guide database for the N64. A lot of the guides from 20 years ago were never finished so he was talking about re-writing them. I can see that being problematic. Additionally I think some of his guides were just text dumps of manuals which is obviously not good.

whowasphone404 posted...

I still haven't gotten any response from him.

It's likely he was banned from the site, honestly.

Definitelyhuman posted...

It's likely he was banned from the site, honestly.

His account isn't banned. He hasn't logged in since April 21.

ironyisntdead posted...

His account isn't banned. He hasn't logged in since April 21.

Surprising. Probably left, then.