May 17, 2010 at 7:49 am
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May 17, 2010 at 7:54 am
jcrawf02 (5/17/2010)
GilaMonster (5/17/2010)
If that is plagiarised, MS needs to be informed (I know a couple people I can speak to there), seeing as that is an MSDN blog.Note that there's some reasonably bad info there anyway. I kinda went to town over the weekend commenting there.
Is that why the comments are disabled? 😉
They're not disabled. Anonymous comments are disabled so you need to be signed into MSDN blogs to comment. Most of the MSDN blogs are like that
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May 17, 2010 at 8:22 am
jcrawf02 (5/17/2010)
Um, Steve, not sure what's going on here, but the Database Weekly newsletter shows a link to this article: Are you Making This Common RAM Mistake?, which seems to have been posted by an MS employee, Anu Chawla? Only the article seems to reference the author as Wayne Berry, and the same article is published under his name here[/url]? (noted that google shows he also has twitter posts about the article, can't get to twitter from here)
I'm not sure either. I'll have to check. One of the others here added that blog to the feed and I didn't notice different authors. Most of them appear to be associated with MS and this guy is a tech evangelist. Might be posted with permission.
I see a few other links to him from around the 'net, so not sure if it's OK or not.
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May 17, 2010 at 8:24 am
My wife had an interesting thought about plagiarism, which was that websites should NOT take down those articles. Instead they should keep the title, the name of the plagiarizing "author" and the first paragraph or two as trailers... then put PLAGIARIZED in big bold red letters with a cite to the original content. Lock in the offender's name and photo, if available. Essentially, put their shame on display in perpetuity.
I like it.
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May 17, 2010 at 8:30 am
We did that at one point here. Someone had sent us a plagiarized articles and we published them. It wasn't until about 6 months later that the person was caught. We left the title and a note that the content was plagiarized, so it was removed. With the author's name.
The author appealed that we remove them, and eventually we did. It's a hard judgment to decide do we keep this forever, do we potentially ruin his career? Do we just penalize him for some time? Is there a legal issue here at some point if we remove the content, but still say this person sent it in?
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May 17, 2010 at 8:37 am
Thanks, been trying to get those down. After editing 5 articles last week that can't figure out how to use a "the" or a "which", I had to get them down.
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May 17, 2010 at 8:43 am
The comments on the MSDN blogs are down for an upgrade - might be awhile before they are back up. I can't even see Gail's comments on the article right now.
I also noticed that at the bottom of the article on TheCoderBlogs[/url] there is a link to "the original", which, although at a different spot on MSDN, has Anuchaw's name again, but all three have Wayne Berry's sig at the bottom right before Anu's. If you look at Anu's main blog page, every single entry has someone else's sig at the bottom. Wierd.
Chad
May 17, 2010 at 9:55 am
Steve Jones - Editor (5/17/2010)
Thanks, been trying to get those down. After editing 5 articles last week that can't figure out how to use a "the" or a "which", I had to get them down.
Ouch.
I think the recommendation to have somebody else review it first prior to submitting it is important. At the very least they may catch some of those grammatical errors. Hopefully the reviewer will also offer advice as to length, content and if the article is good enough to be published in their opinion.
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May 17, 2010 at 11:43 am
Steve Jones - Editor (5/17/2010)
Thanks, been trying to get those down. After editing 5 articles last week that can't figure out how to use a "the" or a "which", I had to get them down.
I liked the link to the tutorial for the article/indefinite article. I mess this up a lot. It was a good refresher.
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May 17, 2010 at 2:31 pm
The Dixie Flatline (5/17/2010)
My wife had an interesting thought about plagiarism, which was that websites should NOT take down those articles. Instead they should keep the title, the name of the plagiarizing "author" and the first paragraph or two as trailers... then put PLAGIARIZED in big bold red letters with a cite to the original content. Lock in the offender's name and photo, if available. Essentially, put their shame on display in perpetuity.I like it.
I also like it.
Maybe put whatever codes search engines like so that these plagiarized articles appear first when searching on their name?
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May 17, 2010 at 2:40 pm
WayneS (5/17/2010)
The Dixie Flatline (5/17/2010)
My wife had an interesting thought about plagiarism, which was that websites should NOT take down those articles. Instead they should keep the title, the name of the plagiarizing "author" and the first paragraph or two as trailers... then put PLAGIARIZED in big bold red letters with a cite to the original content. Lock in the offender's name and photo, if available. Essentially, put their shame on display in perpetuity.I like it.
I also like it.
Maybe put whatever codes search engines like so that these plagiarized articles appear first when searching on their name?
I think it sounds great and might be fine for a bit. The problem comes in with undue slander and labeling the offender permanently for having made a bad choice. If doing something like that, I would be really careful and tread lightly. If the person is a repeat offender, then one could be less cautious with each offense. That said, I would still not post it permanently.
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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May 17, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Rocky Horror Picture Show is on FMC right now. My wife is watching it and cracking up while I try to finish up some blog posts.
I think I will skip the blog posts for now:cool:
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May 18, 2010 at 7:02 am
CirquedeSQLeil (5/17/2010)
Rocky Horror Picture Show is on FMC right now. My wife is watching it and cracking up while I try to finish up some blog posts.I think I will skip the blog posts for now:cool:
Let's do the DBCC Timewarp again!
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May 18, 2010 at 7:18 am
Anybody have any news from Gus? Long time no see....
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May 18, 2010 at 7:20 am
Likely he's busy and no time to post. Seems that people go through phases of posting and then stopping because of work.
I'll be out the next three days. Family in town as my oldest graduates high school. Woo-hoo!
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