WHAT HAVE I DONE
So I came up with a bunch of information about the Gorn in eighth grade for the Cross-Franchise Cantina. I even came up with a language called Gornouf. I know, pretty freaky. Pretty lame.
I put all this information, including the language, on the internet in various places in various forms. But this got wildly out of control! There are literally hundreds of references to my work all over the internet!
I googled my word for the Gorn home planet - Gornniska. There were over 700 results, none of them my original reference guide. Some of them pretty prestigious!
http://experts.about.com/e/g/go/Gornniska.htm
http://www.in2reach.com/cgi-bin/readzip.cgi?gornniska.html
http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Gornniska
All of it is in line with my orginial reference guide, but those are not my words. I hunted it down, and discovered it came from this very old version of a Wikipedia article. I don't know who wrote it but I recognize most of my work - for instance all the city names, the climate description, and the reference to the Killiket (which I actually developed thuroughly so I don't know why they're describing them so vaguely).
I even found this bizzarre apparition in Wikipedia's main article on the Gorn. This is also 100% my work (excepting the entry about S'sgarnon being the planet's name - I have no idea where that came from). I mean, seriously, every detail. But one thing wierds me out bigtime. I never came up with a motto for the Gorn Republic, but when I translated the motto as put in the article, it's completely accurate to my first-generation Gornouf Dictionary.
Did I really start something that got this wide spread, read by literally hundreds, even thousands of people? It's not even that good! What the friggen hell?!
I put all this information, including the language, on the internet in various places in various forms. But this got wildly out of control! There are literally hundreds of references to my work all over the internet!
I googled my word for the Gorn home planet - Gornniska. There were over 700 results, none of them my original reference guide. Some of them pretty prestigious!
http://experts.about.com/e/g/go/Gornniska.htm
http://www.in2reach.com/cgi-bin/readzip.cgi?gornniska.html
http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Gornniska
All of it is in line with my orginial reference guide, but those are not my words. I hunted it down, and discovered it came from this very old version of a Wikipedia article. I don't know who wrote it but I recognize most of my work - for instance all the city names, the climate description, and the reference to the Killiket (which I actually developed thuroughly so I don't know why they're describing them so vaguely).
I even found this bizzarre apparition in Wikipedia's main article on the Gorn. This is also 100% my work (excepting the entry about S'sgarnon being the planet's name - I have no idea where that came from). I mean, seriously, every detail. But one thing wierds me out bigtime. I never came up with a motto for the Gorn Republic, but when I translated the motto as put in the article, it's completely accurate to my first-generation Gornouf Dictionary.
Did I really start something that got this wide spread, read by literally hundreds, even thousands of people? It's not even that good! What the friggen hell?!