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He edited and removed the link.

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5-Jan-17 2:45

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Midi_Mick5-Jan-17 0:55

Plagiarised would be article: got through, and needs re-kicking

5-Jan-17 0:55

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OriginalGriff4-Jan-17 23:20

4-Jan-17 23:20

This: ~~WCF and App Services in Universal Windows Platform(UWP) using Windows 10[^]~~
WCF and App Services in Universal Windows Platform(UWP) using Windows 10[^]
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Contains portions copied from MSDN: Create and consume an app service[^] - search both for "service provider app must be deployed before you can call it from a client. You will also need the package family name of the app service app in order to call it." and you'll see what I mean.

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Tom Deketelaere5-Jan-17 0:35

Tom Deketelaere

5-Jan-17 0:35

Not entirely sure if account should be closed on this one.

Yes that passage in the article looks (and probably is) copied.
But as far as I can see it's only that passage (unless the rest was copied from somewhere else) and it's not his first article.

Assuming the other articles aren't plagiarized, perhaps a comment on the article pointing this out would be better?

I'm holding off on reporting at this moment, maybe the powers that be can look at this.

Ps: how do you do the @name thingy?

Tom

OriginalGriff5-Jan-17 1:04

5-Jan-17 1:04

That's a difficult one, because he's been here very much long enough to know that we don't like plagiarism. But ... he's clearly put some effort into trying to make it look like it's original, and frankly the whole article "smells wrong" to me - nothing I can put my finger on, just the language quality chops and changes, sentences break in funny places, missing capital letters, the whole gestalt just smells bad.

And the rule is: Plagiarise and you're out. I don't see we can apply it to "new" members, and not to ones who have more reason to know better?

The "atsign name" thing is simple: go to the user page and it's just below the name: @Tom-Deketelaere

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Tom Deketelaere5-Jan-17 1:57

Tom Deketelaere

5-Jan-17 1:57

OriginalGriff wrote:
That's a difficult one, because he's been here very much long enough to know that we don't like plagiarism. But ... he's clearly put some effort into trying to make it look like it's original, and frankly the whole article "smells wrong" to me - nothing I can put my finger on, just the language quality chops and changes, sentences break in funny places, missing capital letters, the whole gestalt just smells bad.

I get that and it does feel wrong but that could be just because he isn't a native english speaker so copied and pasted some sentences to get the grammar en such correct (although in this case he is from the US so...)

OriginalGriff wrote:
And the rule is: Plagiarise and you're out. I don't see we can apply it to "new" members, and not to ones who have more reason to know better?

True, I'd even go further and say than new members get more of a "benefit of the doubt" than non new ones.

My hesitance is because this concerns a small part of the article, I can't find anything else that has been copied.
We all get our info somewhere so in a sense we all "copy" things and convert it into better understanding words or such.
So this could just be a part he researched and found "clear" enough it doesn't need rewording of added info or ...
I'm not sure if my meaning comes across correctly (non native english speaker here Smile | :)

)

I can't get the "atsign name" thingy to work Frown | :(

if I copy the link under the name of the user page and paste it I get:

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Maybe I need to enable markdown?

Tom

OriginalGriff5-Jan-17 2:20

5-Jan-17 2:20

It's not that small - check out the paragraphs and the whole code block beneath the search text I gave! Laugh | :laugh:

Try the atsign thing again: write @OriginalGriff and it will send me an email automatically.

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Tom Deketelaere5-Jan-17 6:33

Tom Deketelaere

5-Jan-17 6:33

Sean investigated and kicked him Smile | :)

Testing:
@OriginalGriff

@OrignalGriff

@OriginalGriff

@OriginalGriff

Sorry about the spam Smile | :)

Got the hang of it now Smile | :)

Doesn't format the link though in the preview window, only does it on posting the message, that's why I always figured it wasn't working.

Tom

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Sean Ewington5-Jan-17 2:37

Sean Ewington

5-Jan-17 2:37

Found plagiarism in another article.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
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4-Jan-17 23:04

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