Does "Original Creator" appear anymore?

"SPARKY1922;c-17896515" wrote:
@Missmagoo2

I don't think it's petty of you at all to want to be shown as the original creator for either a lot or a sim however I don't understand the gallery very well as S4 is not my preferred game but I do play on occasion where I obviously download creator works from the gallery to play in my game and where it is shown as some other creator name other than the original creator I go find the original creator and download their work instead as I don't intentionally want to download any content that another player may have uploaded as their own when it's not but I confess to not understanding the gallery process very well.

For example I will download an original creator lot and then change it to suit my game needs and save it to my own library so I can save the tray files using sims 4 tray importer as a backup if I need to start a new game but I also record the original creator name in the save at the time should I need to go searching for the lot again in the gallery if something goes wrong with the tray files however I thought when I do this the changes just go into my own library and not the public gallery? someone please correct me if I am wrong.

With sims I often download single sims that i like the look of and save every one of them singly with the creator name for the same reasons described above with lots and then when I have merged a household of sims from single sims (roomies for example) I save them in cas as a group of sims to save the tray files of the sims as a group but I still keep the original creator names of each sim creator. From what I am reading on this thread is that when players save the way I do with a group of sims the original sim creator details can be lost which can be deliberate or just someone like me who is simply saving a backup of sims?

I would genuinely like to know how this works because I would hate to think it looked like I was stealing someone's work/creativity when I am most definitely not...

I upload my creations to the gallery so that anyone who likes it can download it into their game and enjoy! I don't have any problems with that. I also encourage anyone who gives my sims a "makeover" and uploads it to the gallery to tag me. That way they get credit for the makeover and I get credit for the original sim. This is made easier when Maxis automatically puts me for the "Original By" tag. However, this only rarely happens. The person who downloads my sim has to choose "replace" instead of "merge" in order for it to appear as mine. If they use "merge", it will consider my sim their own creation when uploaded to the gallery.
The ones that I've noticed on the gallery are blatantly mine, but they did not tag me nor did I get the automatic "Original By" tag. So, there is no way for anyone to know that I did the work and they just took credit.