Talk:Dr. Reese Kearns
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| − | I don't know, I spend a lot of time re-writing text cut and pasted from other internet sites, I've always been leary about copying Fleischer for its own sake...it's basically plagiarism and while it seems OK when no other data is available - ETHICS wise, it's better to gradually replace Fleischer with original text - rather than the other way around. What fun is a data site when no one is looking up and summarizing the data and is just blindly COPYING other sources? | + | I don't know, I spend a lot of time re-writing text cut and pasted from other internet sites, I've always been leary about copying Fleischer for its own sake...it's basically plagiarism and while it seems OK when no other data is available - ETHICS wise, it's better to gradually replace Fleischer with original text - rather than the other way around. What fun is a data site when no one is looking up and summarizing the data and is just blindly COPYING other sources? No other WIKI site would tolerate copying as the main goal. |
--[[User:MatterEaterLad|MatterEaterLad]] 00:17, 17 March 2008 (EDT) | --[[User:MatterEaterLad|MatterEaterLad]] 00:17, 17 March 2008 (EDT) | ||
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Instead of "replacing" researched entries with plagiarism of TGSB, I suggest adding TGSB text if something is missing. I spent a lot of time over many hundreds of original entries here and don't think that copies of someone else's copyright text is always an improvement. Case in point, this entry, where my entry had more details.
It would be nice to focus on original writing, the internet is filled with copied and ripped off text. It would also be nice to have new entries added to the database, rather than "replacing" good text with copied text.
--MatterEaterLad 23:58, 14 March 2008 (EDT)
While I agree with you on some of this--and I have been, for the most part, writing new entries rather than posting Fleisher's material since the reprint was announced last year--I also thought that the mission of this site was to put the TGSB text online and expand on it. I just figured that we should include the TGSB articles where available. I am sorry that I stepped on your toes.
--DrJohnnyDiablo 01:02, 16 March 2008 (CDT)
I don't know, I spend a lot of time re-writing text cut and pasted from other internet sites, I've always been leary about copying Fleischer for its own sake...it's basically plagiarism and while it seems OK when no other data is available - ETHICS wise, it's better to gradually replace Fleischer with original text - rather than the other way around. What fun is a data site when no one is looking up and summarizing the data and is just blindly COPYING other sources? No other WIKI site would tolerate copying as the main goal.
--MatterEaterLad 00:17, 17 March 2008 (EDT)
