User blog comment:Rhonda the stalker fan!/Future of Sprink's Stories./@comment-3220924-20131118202613/@comment-1874924-20131119041550

OHF, you've just insutled the intelligence of everyone here who doesn't happen to agree with you. We're not doing this just "because the policy says so", we have looked at the context, and we've already had several forums, in the form of various people's blogs and the Candidates for Deletion talk page, on whether Sprink's stories should be retained in spite of his wishes. The overwhelming consensus is that we are morally and ethically obligated to respect his wishes, regardless of our personal feelings.

It would be grossly unfair to Sprink to say that we're going to take away his ownership rights--but not anyone else's--just because he was a popular and prolific writer. Either we recognize individual ownership of content or we don't. There is no middle ground that a fairminded person would accept.

If we decide that we're not going to recognize ownership anymore, that means abolishing the rule that only a story's author can edit a story page without permission. That means that all stories here--including Sprink's--could be edited by anyone who isn't simply vandalizing. If a third party thinks they can improve a storyline (or improve the story by removing a certain storyline) or patch a plot hole by altering certain plot elements, we would have to allow them to do so, with the result that every story here--including Sprink's--would run the risk of becoming a "story by committee". I don't know about you, but that strikes me as a cure worse than the disease. Would you want to post stories here under those conditions? I know I wouldn't. Indeed, if I saw significant support for compromising ownership, I would immediately take down all of my own stories whilst I still had control over them.

Finally, anyone who has posted Sprink's stories to another website in defiance of his wishes is morally and ethically obligated to take them down immediately. Refusal to do so would amount to spitting in Sprink's face, not to mention theft, and would certainly merit a permanent ban from this wiki--no questions asked, no explanations accepted, no leniency granted for any reason whatsoever.