Avoiding Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the action of taking, remaking, etc. someone else’s work and claiming it as your own with no proper citation. It is a serious issue in many countries, especially in both educational institutions and the entertainment industries! Due to the recreation of projects by well known artists, plagiarism is also an issue in arts.

To refrain from plagiarizing, you must give credit where credit is due. The Game Plans for New Cartoons/New Multimedia Projects Wiki is welcome to suggest the following directions for avoiding plagiarism.

Describe the source material for any new work of media.
This is a must for multimedia projects based on franchises, let alone any movie, television show, video game, and even a cartoon. One may simply identify the franchise that their project is part of by mentioning, for example, “Based on the [TITLE OF MEDIA] franchise”.

Jot down the inspirations from any media that was produced beforehand.
Not all movies, television shows, video games, or even cartoons are original, since many of them belong in individual franchises and/or take inspirations from others. Therefore, it is highly suggested that you state the inspiration of your work unless the work is completely original.

EXAMPLE: Arnold Mack: Into the Robo-Verse is heavily inspired by Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

Write down BOTH the appropriate month/day/year of ideation and month/day/year of planning.
By mentioning the months/days/years of creating ideas and planning of new projects, individuals would learn more about the particular project.

State the release date(s) of your project in the month/day/year format.
Each movie, television series, video game, cartoon, etc. is released on a particular date. On the page of your project, along with its accompanying infobox, mention its original release date in this format: [MONTH] (# of day)st/nd/rd/th, [YEAR].

List all film studios that you best prefer to help make the new cartoon/video game/etc.
Movies, television shows, video game, cartoons, etc. often get released by major studios, distributed by other companies, and co-produced by others. While describing the release date of your project or on its infobox, state each film/video game studio that you’d highly prefer to distribute or release your project. In the infobox, the main studio should be mentioned as the first one in the “Production companies” label, followed by the other studios that you’d like to co-produce the project.

Be sure to cite all of your sources in MLA or APA formats or (at the very least) bullet points
Online resources such as Wikipedia, Miraheze, and Fandom provide content with citations. As a result, it is necessary to cite information that you received to create your page in MLA or APA format. If you want, you could bullet point the website link that you got your information from.