On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 18:23 -0400, pi zero wrote:
An interesting case study in plagiarism detection is an article I reviewed a few hours ago. It contained what looks, for all the world, like a deliberate attempt to slip plagiarism past the review process. How did I detect it? Peculiarities of the article triggered my instincts to look more closely, causing me to search for key words and phrases on the web, and find copyvio/plagiarism of an article not listed as a source.
After the stern lecture I gave Tempo, not so long ago, about lies damn lies and statistics, I'm not likely to put too much stock in googlefight --- but I concede it'll be interesting to see what happens, especially since even if *I* don't put much stock in it, I'm pretty sure Tempo does.
Someone disrupting the wiki to prove a point?
Sounds like the attempt failed. <chuckles>
I doubt it'd be Tempo; when I browsed TOG's Village Pump I noted xe stating checking for copyright violation came low - if at all - on their list of checking criteria. But, one assumes, above checking for infringement of someone else's trade mark.
Brian McNeil.