[Foundation-l] Allegations of Wikipedia plagurism by Brandt/Websites he has stirred up sending nasty notices

[Jeff V. Merkey]

Jeff V. Merkey wrote:

>Gregory Maxwell wrote:
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>>On 10/23/06, Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
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>>>Mr. Brandt has posted a long listing of articles to his website making
>>>allegations of plagurism
>>>of wikipedia articles from copyrighted sources.
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>>Good fortune is when you can count on your detractors to help you with
>>your goals. :)
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>>In any case, I wish Brandt had done a little more homework because
>>while I have no doubt that some of his findings are legitimate
>>problems, some of them quite clearly are not.
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>>For example, his second case, [[Charles Wheatstone]], has a large
>>amount of text copied from Heroes of the Telegraph by John Munro
>>(1849-1930) [http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=979].
>>This has been documented on the talk page all along. Brandt claims the
>>text came from some other site but what we have is a case of another
>>site copying the PD text without attribution.  A good example of why
>>attribution is important even when not required by law.
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>>In any case, waiting a week or two then taking those articles from the
>>next dump should resolve any problems which you've had.
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>>I find it interesting that people would complain to you prior to
>>complaining to Wikipedia.
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>I suspect the complaints came both directions. Also, remember, My site 
>is watched
>like a hawk from a large list of detractors. They fire off emails to my 
>ISP is a constant
>deluge. The complaint came from my ISP directly after they received an 
>email
>from someone (Al Petrofsky I suspect).
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>Jeff
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They also have me listed in several image sites claiming I have images 
from Wikipedia
that are copvio and both my site and WP are in violation. Since I have 
not seen any DMCA
takedown notices, I don't know which images they are referring to. 
Again, more of the
detractors and their whining.

... "Like being gummed to death by guppies...I just ignore them unless I 
see something
more official".

Jeff

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