Conservapedia:Blatant Plagiarism
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As you probably know, Conservapedians (primarily sysops, because they are the ones immune from the hand of justice) like to save themselves work by using the copy-paste function on the computers. If users are the ones accused on plagiarizing, they are banned, but Conservapedia retains the article.
Here is a very incomplete yet still long list of occurrences. In addition to intellectual integrity, academic honesty and copyright law, Conservapedia Commandments 1 and 2 are relevant here.
Memo to Andy Schlafly: Plagiarism is a sin – and a felony.
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[edit] Articles with copious amounts of plagiarism
- Parental Rights Decisions on Consevapedia and on Virginia's Civil Rights & Personal Injury Law Firm (scroll down to "Liberty Interest"). This one courtesy of Andy himself!
- Conservapedia:Boy George (Plagiarized Article)
- Conservapedia:Shequida (Plagiarized Article)
- Conservapedia:Ellen DeGeneres (Plagiarized Article)
- Tina Turner on Conservapedia, Tina Turner on VH1 and Tina Turner on Squidoo.
- Henry Moore Conservapedia versionColumbia encyclopedia version
- CP:Elie Wiesel[1]
- "Potato Incident" on CP stolen from "Potato Incident" on WP
- Conservapedia:Adolf Hitler (Plagiarized Article)
- Conservapedia:Bill of Rights (Plagiarized Article)
- Conservapedia:Clement Atlee (Plagiarized Article)
- Conservapedia:Edwin Meese III (Plagiarized Article)
- Conservapedia:Fox News (Plagiarized Article)
- Conservapedia:Great Depression (Plagiarized Article)
- Conservapedia:Morality (Plagiarized Article)
- Conservapedia:National Security Agency (Plagiarized Article)
- Conservapedia:Robert Byrd (Plagiarized Article)
- Conservapedia:Robert Mugabe (Plagiarized Article)
- Conservapedia:Ted Stevens (Plagiarized Article)
- Conservapedia:UCLA (Plagiarized Article)
- Conservapedia:CDC Vaccine Glossary (Plagiarized Articles)
- Conservapedia:United States Air Force (Plagiarized Article)
[edit] Karajou's copy/paste fest
- Mexican War - Copy &paste (Not attributed)
[edit] Plagiarized article series
- Most articles written about weather by SharonS are stolen from here. Eye Wall is an excellent example.
- A series of articles 'written' by cp:user:DrMaine appear to be cut-and-paste jobs. See cp:Argininosuccinicaciduria mentioned above. To be fair PJR and Tash have noted this but lets see whether they're deleted.
[edit] Image Copyright Violations
These are images that are copyrighted, used without apparent permission, and with no obvious "fair use" justification.
- http://www.conservapedia.com/Image:UK_metal_detectors.jpg - Stolen from Daily Telegraph web-site (22 Jan 2008) by Aschlafly.
Fri, 8 Feb 2008 7:43 AM Subject: telegraph.co.uk - Use of phototgraphs.[2]
Thanks for your email which has just been forward to me.
Any use of our material requires payment of licence fees - we do not operate a fair-use policy without payment - I believe Conservapedia.com have used our image without our permission.
Yours,
Chi-Keat Man Syndication Account Manager
Telegraph Media Group Limited 111 Buckingham Palace Road London SW1W 0DT
Tel: +44-20-7931-**** Fax: +44-20-7931-**** Email: ************@telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk
- http://www.conservapedia.com/Image:Tokyo.jpg from http://www.hotelsbycity.net/guides/int/japan/tokyo/ . I (shagie) have contacted the company asking for contact information for the photographer or that the copyright violation information is passed on to the photographer or agency from which the image is licensed.
[edit] Copyright owner fights back
A picture of the Grand Canyon uploaded by Joaquin with the qualification "Fair Use" was overprinted at the source site with a rebuttal of that justification. It was deleted from Conservapedia!
[edit] References
- ↑ TK's conservapedia article, "After the liberation of the camps in April 1945, Wiesel spent a few years in a French orphanage and in 1948 began to study in Paris at the Sorbonne." word for word plagiarizing Elie Wiesel Bio at Virginia.edu
- ↑ Full email available on request
