What counts as copying in the Giant Bomb Wiki?

For example, if someone was going to name all characters in a Street Fighter game would they have to think of their names and moves on the top of their head or would it be okay to do some online research? 
 
Thanks.

That doesn't seem any worse than copying the setlist for the latest Guitar Hero or Rockband game.

Using other sites for research is fine. Copy/pasting from other sites isn't.

You are allowed to paraphrase and use info from other sites, but you can't copy and paste because that's plagiarism.

if it feels dirty, don't do it.

Copying those names would be fine, the reason is that those are dot-point facts. If you come up with a list of street fighter characters your list would end up identical to anyone else's list of street fighter characters. The issue arises when you start using someone else's unique phrasing. But, it is a bit of a grey area when your own words inadvertently end up almost identical to someone else's. For example, there's only so many ways you could ever explain that Blanka has green skin and orange hair.

" Using other sites for research is fine. Copy/pasting from other sites isn't. "

" Using other sites for research is fine. Copy/pasting from other sites isn't. "

What about in instances where it's impossible to put it in your own words, like the reindeer on the Santa page, or the paradigm thing on the FF13 page? "

" Copying those names would be fine, the reason is that those are dot-point facts. If you come up with a list of street fighter characters your list would end up identical to anyone else's list of street fighter characters. The issue arises when you start using someone else's unique phrasing. "

" What about in instances where it's impossible to put it in your own words, like the reindeer on the Santa page, or the paradigm thing on the FF13 page? "

" Using other sites for research is fine. Copy/pasting from other sites isn't. "

" @Video_Game_King said:

" What about in instances where it's impossible to put it in your own words, like the reindeer on the Santa page, or the paradigm thing on the FF13 page? "

If you're copying a specific presentation of that information, that's not okay. If you're describing facts or ideas that already exist, those are uncopyrightable and there's nothing to worry about.
 
The U.S. Copyright Office's copyright FAQ has answers to a number of common questions. "

" Using other sites for research is fine. Copy/pasting from other sites isn't. "

" @NekuSakuraba: ...you know that PM you sent me earlier today that was really long?  You can't do copypasta like that.  :| "

" @MattyFTM: What about images? I've been wondering about that for some time now. Aren't most of the uploaded images infringing copyrights in some way? "