Plagiarism

Published at July 13, 2007 Filed Under Blogging

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Update: The author of the blog promptly removed the post and he said he don`t know about how to reference the links to other blogs posts as he is new to blogging. In response to his prompt action i am altering the post.

Two weeks back i wrote a post on Top 20 wordpress plugins i am using, the post became popular and getting lot of hits. It became the 2nd most popular post on my blog. Today i came to know that some one copied the post and published it as it is with out changing anything. (see it here).

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11 Responses to “Plagiarism”

dEEPAK
July 13th, 2007 4:25 am

ha ha.. he hasn’t even changed the RSS feed URL that you’ve specified in the last plugin..
ram
July 13th, 2007 4:27 am

yaah, he is dumb
Andrew Pitchford
July 13th, 2007 5:36 am

Yup - I admit I’m dumb. I have sent an apology to the author. I haven’t been blogging long and when I read his excellent post while away from my computer at a friends I was impressed and so emailed the page back to my home computer because I thought I would read it and share his advice with others.

I am still learning how to post links to other posts and so I quickly posted it up with full intent to remember where I got the post from and sort it out. All of this including the authors response to me happened within 4hrs.

You are welcome to poke fun at the newbie but I hope you can also be willing to accept an apology.
Bush Mackel
July 13th, 2007 5:46 am

I wrote a pretty decent comment pointing out the error of his ways, but I can’t see IT or the post anymore. I’m getting a 404.
ram
July 13th, 2007 6:10 am

@Andrew
Thanks for your comment, there is no intention to make fun of you. I realised that it happened and posted immediately.
i replied to your email, you can`t replicate the entire post, if you like it you would have made your own post with excerpts from my original post.
I would request you to remove the post.
Thanks
Nirmal
July 13th, 2007 6:43 am

Since he has apologied and removed the post, its ok I guess.
But there are people who dont respond to these mails and comments.
Bush Mackel
July 13th, 2007 1:06 pm

@Andrew - I can’t speak for Ram, but there are a lot of people who would’ve ran away from this problem but you didn’t and I applaud that.
Madhur Kapoor
July 13th, 2007 1:29 pm

Yeah there are a lot of people who simple copy and ignore others .
Andrew Pitchford
July 13th, 2007 6:20 pm

Thank you! After how things went I was pretty devastated to think I had hurt someone and I appreciate the comments. I was going to walk quietly into the night but you guys seem to have a lot to offer so I would like to continue to participate in your sites and hopefully learn from this mistake.

Although my intent was to show Ram’s work and put a link to his site I think I made three mistakes last night let me outline them and then ask for feedback “to avoid future plagiarism” as a lesson for others!

1. I posted the ‘whole’ post - WRONG
2. I posted with the intention of adding more of an introduction including the link later - WRONG
3. I thought no one was reading my posts so posting live instead of draft would be OK - WRONG

Can someone advise me what should have been the protocol for drawing attention to Ram’s post so that he and I got legitimate traffic and Ram got the kudos.

Do I just place a little into and a link to his post in mine and thats sufficient for Ram to gain click through traffic?

Are trackbacks the way to go? I’ve only found a few tutorials and they seem to be a lot of work to setup on each post.

Thoughts!?
dEEPAK
July 13th, 2007 9:56 pm

wow ! It’s gr8 to see that you’ve come forward and accepted your mistake.. Very less people have that courage.. Way to go man !
What you could do here is write some intro on importance of plugins and at the end give a link to Ram’s post. Giving him a trackback which in a way useful for you too bcoz your tackback link will be displayed on his post page whihc will give you some traffic