I would agree with Brad; in this case, a private (arbcom? WMF?) contact to establish the
author's position or assertion there seems at worst harmless. They will either answer
yes, no, or object to answering. If it's yes they can essentially / publicly
anonymously verify by echoing a requested edit confirmation on their talk page. If no,
then the issue is valid and you move forwards. If they object or decline you are no worse
off than when you started...
George William Herbert
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On Oct 19, 2012, at 9:54 AM, Newyorkbrad <newyorkbrad(a)gmail.com> wrote:
One possible approach would be to contact the author
directly.
Newyorkbrad
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:43 PM, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Someone has posted a question about WP:OUTING. We
are currently dealing
with a copyright issue ( a textbook has copied liberally from Wikipedia
without proper attribution and the author claiming the work as their own ).
Before we inform the publisher however we need to make sure that the author
of the book is not a Wikipedia editor who wrote the original content and
than released it under a different license. In this instance this was not
the case.
However is the simply fact of attempting to verify that an author is not a
Wikipedian considered WP:OUTING? Not attempting to verify it before
informing the publisher and amazon however would be unethical as we may
harm someones career and need to make sure we are correct. Other peoples
thoughts?
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
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