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gomedome

That’s a good point. Just to make it clear to others who may be reading this page, to avoid any confusion, we only considered examples where it seemed very likely that the authors were different.

A recent example was "The Reality of Putting one's own Self Down", posted to Bhaskar.ing's blog on May 31, and which he said he had written in 2006. It turned out to have been actually written by Richard Carlson on page 95 of the book "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff--and it's all small stuff", first published in 1996.

-Robert

posted by BlogitStaff on June 7, 2009 at 8:21 AM | link to this | reply

I attempted to reserve judgement because my opinion was biased

Just before this issue flared up I had my last encounter with the accused party. Then someone of a group I would trust to some degree implicitly, made an accusation that turned out to be well founded. My instincts prevailed again fortunately.

Now, tell me: what am I to make of this? Are number one and number two the same author?

Author One

Author Two

When I see things such as this, I feel someone has a choice of pleading guilty to one of two charges; "plagiarism" or "giving the impression of plagiarism". Plead guilt to the former . . . get lost, you are a pariah to a writing community. But plead guilty to the latter, clean up your act and then maybe we have something to talk about. If any individual does not take the opportunity to clean up their act when their credibility is suffering to this degree, they have simply made a mistake. An incredible display of incredibly poor judgement.

posted by gomedome on June 6, 2009 at 9:24 PM | link to this | reply

Re: You just lost your bet, Xeno...

you mean some of the complainants were not Christian?

posted by Xeno-x on June 6, 2009 at 6:23 PM | link to this | reply

Re: You just lost your bet, Xeno...

I was waiting on that response........he sat himself up for that one....

posted by Corbin_Dallas on June 6, 2009 at 2:05 PM | link to this | reply

Thank you....

The explanation of this incident has given me confidence that it was, indeed, all handled most professionally and I feel comfortable about it now.

 

It is sad it came to this but I guess, c'ést la vie.

Jonathan aka 'Raphael''

posted by Raphael222 on June 6, 2009 at 1:25 PM | link to this | reply

Thank you for posting this

and for calm, reasoned, sensitive and ultimately fair handling of this sad incident.

posted by Azur on June 6, 2009 at 1:03 PM | link to this | reply

You just lost your bet, Xeno...

posted by Nautikos on June 6, 2009 at 11:14 AM | link to this | reply

Thank you for handling this situation professionally !

posted by ash_pradhan on June 6, 2009 at 10:47 AM | link to this | reply

i won't take issue with your issue -- however

I bet all of the complainants were good Christians.

posted by Xeno-x on June 6, 2009 at 8:26 AM | link to this | reply

Robert........

You guys went the extra mile..........it was still lingering about....and many long time bloggers were seeing it continue.....

posted by Corbin_Dallas on June 6, 2009 at 8:25 AM | link to this | reply

Thanks, Robert!

The guy was a serial plagiarist...

posted by Nautikos on June 6, 2009 at 7:56 AM | link to this | reply