I have been removing text to talk, generally concerning the Ottoman Empire (articles on the Ottoman Triumvirate, Suleiman the Magnificent, Ormus, etc.). These seem to be plagiarized from WWW.nationmaster.com, which
holds copyright on all aspects of this site (including but not limited to content and layout), with the exception of the text from articles taken from Wikipedia and where copyrights are held by our sources
Before I remove any more text to talk, I'd appreciate it if someone can check this for me. As far as I can tell, the text in the nationmaster encyclopedia is not attributed to Wikipedia, so I have assumed that one of our contributors has been copying from them, rather than vice versa. But I'd appreciate it if someone else can look into this further before I make any more changes,
Thanks,
Steve
Steven L. Rubenstein Associate Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology Bentley Annex Ohio University Athens, Ohio 45701
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BTW could www.nationmaster.com use a larger font for wikipedia license info ? ----- Original Message ----- From: steven l. rubenstein To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 7:43 PM Subject: [WikiEN-l] possible plagiarism
I have been removing text to talk, generally concerning the Ottoman Empire (articles on the Ottoman Triumvirate, Suleiman the Magnificent, Ormus, etc.). These seem to be plagiarized from WWW.nationmaster.com, which
holds copyright on all aspects of this site (including but not limited to content and layout), with the exception of the text from articles taken from Wikipedia and where copyrights are held by our sources Before I remove any more text to talk, I'd appreciate it if someone can check this for me. As far as I can tell, the text in the nationmaster encyclopedia is not attributed to Wikipedia, so I have assumed that one of our contributors has been copying from them, rather than vice versa. But I'd appreciate it if someone else can look into this further before I make any more changes,
Thanks,
Steve
Steven L. Rubenstein Associate Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology Bentley Annex Ohio University Athens, Ohio 45701
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Have a look at the notice on the bottom right-hand corner on this page:
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Ottoman-Triumvirate
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 01:43 pm, steven l. rubenstein wrote:
Before I remove any more text to talk, I'd appreciate it if someone can check this for me. As far as I can tell, the text in the nationmaster encyclopedia is not attributed to Wikipedia, so I have assumed that one of our contributors has been copying from them, rather than vice versa. But I'd appreciate it if someone else can look into this further before I make any more changes,
Thanks,
Steve
Have a look at the notice on the bottom right-hand corner on this page:
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Ottoman-Triumvirate
It says that "The Wikipedia article included on this page is licensed under the GFDL", meaning that the article is from wikipedia.
Best, Sascha Noyes aka snoyes
Oops, sorry for the crappy formatting on the previous message (note the stuff below the quoted excerpt from Steven).
This incident shows that nationmaster is acting in slightly bad faith when they make it look obvious that it is their content (even to people active in wikipedia). Good faith in my opinion would have a short sentence infront of the article explaining that this is not actually their work. Oh well.
Best, Sascha Noyes aka snoyes
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 03:57 pm, Sascha Noyes wrote:
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 01:43 pm, steven l. rubenstein wrote:
Before I remove any more text to talk, I'd appreciate it if someone can check this for me. As far as I can tell, the text in the nationmaster encyclopedia is not attributed to Wikipedia, so I have assumed that one of our contributors has been copying from them, rather than vice versa. But I'd appreciate it if someone else can look into this further before I make any more changes,
Thanks,
Steve
Have a look at the notice on the bottom right-hand corner on this page:
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Ottoman-Triumvirate
It says that "The Wikipedia article included on this page is licensed under the GFDL", meaning that the article is from wikipedia.
Best, Sascha Noyes aka snoyes