Community business

[abomvubuso]

Hi all. I'm sorry that i'm going to diverge from the talking-politics(TM) and occupy you with this again, but i think its a matter that needs to be addressed, and this time properly. I'm afraid last time we didnt exhaust the issue as we should and problems remained between members; unfortunately, the two guys who should've been most inolved in the

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[sealwhiskers]

That's not quite how it works. For instance when it comes to the Crane and Matten blog article and Abom's post, there are articles in the two digit numbers coming up. Mynewtechinfo, Urbanrelations, Sustainable Business, Chromebook and more. They ALL have large parts that are similar, and they all seem to originally stem from the bread and butter contents of the Sustainable Business article (although I'm not 100%)

The reason why I have said that this is not necessarily such a huge misconduct is because Crane and Matten are ALSO using large chunks of text which can be traced to other texts and which are unquoted. (only a few of the articles name a source, and in this case the source is the Sustainable Business article.

So this isn't such an easy topic. It is not certain that all this would be considered plagiarism even. BUT should there even be allegations, the community could be shut down while investigated.

Bottom line is, newsblogs and newsarticles do this all the time, and I don't think this should have been such a huge drama story in the community as it became. And I certainly think that people who claim they know a lot about plagiarism (the legal term), may not have looked at this in a factual way but mainly ridden the drama wave and possibly gotten spooked by nosognosia's accusations.

Still, can't hurt to be careful I suppose, and that's why I run the scans now.

[anfalicious]

It's still plagiarism even if you're plagiarising plagiarised work.

With regards to news articles being the same, it's because they're using AP or Reuters wires, in which case a reputable news organisation will say that they have done so.

[sealwhiskers]

It is a much more solid case when it is news organs that sell and when there is journalistic integrity involved.

[sealwhiskers]

oh, and no, I do not believe that Crane and Matten and several other on line newspages that summarized and re-wrote stuff (and came up in my generator when I did text checking) are really considered plagiarism either. It comes down to a pretty hard defined balance between summaries and re-writing and a certain level of original material, and also in what context the news is set up.