Re: Plagiarism?

On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 09:09:44 +0100, Ernest Major wrote:

In message <jqegjo$n88$5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Paul J Gans
<gansno@xxxxxxxxx> writes
chris thompson <chris.linthompson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you are on Facebook, you might want to have a look at Carl Zimmer's
Page. Apparently, Chuck Norris lifted an article of Zimmer's _in toto_
and put it on his blog, with no attribution to indicate he (Norris)
was not the author.

Well, if one looks at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_technology

and compares it to

http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/tekpages/Subjects.html

you'll see entire chunks taken from the one into the other. And my
page has been there since 1997 while the Wiki page is very new.

Pisses me off, especially since the thief left all the literature
references out, which makes the Wiki page rather useless.


Then point out at the talk page, or the project page, that the material
breaches WP:PLAGIARISM.

Seconded. Plagiarism is taken _very_ seriously indeed at Wikipedia, since
it's a direct threat to the projects foundations (providing _free_information).
Nevertheless, i've taken a peek at the two pages and, though they share a
common theme and mention many of the same things (which should hardly
surprise anyone), outright plagiarism has so far eluded me.

Would you care to point out some examples?

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