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[The Church of Satan]

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Don't tell me Whole India bothered you guys about his banjection too. He keeps whining about it and trying to rally people on the TRR RMB to convince India to let him back in. Today he went so far as to ask our Foreign Affairs Officer to officially speak to India on his behalf. I have told him several times over the last few days that TRR is not his personal attack dog, neither are we his brokers nor his lawyers. India's business is just that: India's business.

[Primorye Oblast]

The article about the recent Europeian Senate election has been plagiarized word for word and we were not informed of any intention to use our original content. The attribution was also incorrect, as noted above. Our media outlet is called the Europeian Broadcasting Corporation.

Our original dispatch can be found here: https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1266889

Do not use our releases for your newspaper without requesting permission.

-- Prim
Chief of State of Europeia

[Bowzin]

Just my own two cents here, but if you want to start a successful newspaper, you should probably have your own articles instead of copy pasting articles from other sources, regardless of if they are properly attributed, which it seems you haven't done.

[Newark Aristocracy]

Well,well,some copypasta.

LETS RANSACK THIS NEWS PAPER
*Smashes door open and storms the newspaper's offices, looking for copypasta with support from the ESPA*

*Finds proof of copypasta*

THIS PAPER SHALL BE (REDACTED)

(not a mod,just saw the thread in moderation and desided to have some OOC RP*

[Wymondham]

Just my own two cents here, but if you want to start a successful newspaper, you should probably have your own articles instead of copy pasting articles from other sources, regardless of if they are properly attributed, which it seems you haven't done.

^

[The Newspaper Boy]

The article about the recent Europeian Senate election has been plagiarized word for word and we were not informed of any intention to use our original content. The attribution was also incorrect, as noted above. Our media outlet is called the Europeian Broadcasting Corporation.

Our original dispatch can be found here: https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1266889

Do not use our releases for your newspaper without requesting permission.

-- Prim
Chief of State of Europeia

We were really sorry for the inconvenience. We didn't intented to harm you/your region in any way. We just collect the news, mention the source and present it in our Newspaper, with an aim of keeping the NS Community learned about current affairs of NS. (Though, generally, 75% of the articles are reported and collected by our Agency only)

We will be publishing a full acknowledgement letter about EBC, in our next issue, regarding the last article.

Once again we apologize for the inconvenience.

[Wymondham]

This is actually so sad to see and quite frankly you should be ashamed of yourself. You have now been found to have plagarised 2 of your articles. You actions damage every newspapers reputation for credibility and journalistic integrity. I hope you are truly ashamed tour your actions

[The Newspaper Boy]

This is actually so sad to see and quite frankly you should be ashamed of yourself. You have now been found to have plagarised 2 of your articles. You actions damage every newspapers reputation for credibility and journalistic integrity. I hope you are truly ashamed tour your actions

As said I didn't had any intention for plagiarism, further I have already mentioned the sources of the News Articles below the title.

On my part, I accept it was a mistake to publish news from a source (even after mentioning the source) without asking the Owner to use it, for that as well, I have personally telegrammed the owner and apologized.

[East Meranopirus]

This is actually so sad to see and quite frankly you should be ashamed of yourself. You have now been found to have plagarised 2 of your articles. You actions damage every newspapers reputation for credibility and journalistic integrity. I hope you are truly ashamed tour your actions

As said I didn't had any intention for plagiarism, further I have already mentioned the sources of the News Articles below the title.

On my part, I accept it was a mistake to publish news from a source (even after mentioning the source) without asking the Owner to use it, for that as well, I have personally telegrammed the owner and apologized.

Seeing as the plagiarized article has not been taken down even after the Chief of State of Europeia stated that you did not have their permission to publish it, I do question the sincerity of this apology.

[Wymondham]

As said I didn't had any intention for plagiarism, further I have already mentioned the sources of the News Articles below the title.

On my part, I accept it was a mistake to publish news from a source (even after mentioning the source) without asking the Owner to use it, for that as well, I have personally telegrammed the owner and apologized.

Seeing as the plagiarized article has not been taken down even after the Chief of State of Europeia stated that you did not have their permission to publish it, I do question the sincerity of this apology.

^
It seems to me that the Independent Newspaper which, it appears, uses a logo that appears identiacal to the old UK Independent logo is perfectly happy to continue with plagiarism until they are forced to stop. How about you start by taking down all of the articles you have published that are plagarised. However that may not leave you with much content left

[Darkesia]

A few random thoughts on avoiding plagiarism:
May I suggest a new name along the lines of a news anthology service. Also a clearly stated policy that you are a news gathering service that requests permission before republishing any articles.

As an alternative you can still fulfill your mission of gathering the NS news into one dispatch by simply listing title and links to the appropriate thing. Later, perhaps offer a search service that allows for a nation to search for any time their name or region is mentioned in gathered articles.

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

A few random thoughts on avoiding plagiarism:
May I suggest a new name along the lines of a news anthology service. Also a clearly stated policy that you are a news gathering service that requests permission before republishing any articles.

As an alternative you can still fulfill your mission of gathering the NS news into one dispatch by simply listing title and links to the appropriate thing. Later, perhaps offer a search service that allows for a nation to search for any time their name or region is mentioned in gathered articles.

In other words, there's two fairly acceptable paths:

1) Act like a paper that publishes a mix of original and borrowed content, like many papers publish AP content. In that case, the content is used with permission of the original publisher (AP allows papers to pay for its articles, IRL), and with limited attribution [e.g. "SEATTLE (AP)"]. Or, in the middle case, at least write the classic-if-sometimes-sleazy "according to a report by the Washington Post" article-that-just-sums-up-another-article-but-still-links-to-it.

2) Act like a content aggregator or newsletter service, which, like Reddit or the Yahoo homepage, just provides an article headline/blurb, and links through to the original content.

[Kaystein]

You need to drop Your articles that are plagiarized.

[Miss Bad Life Choices]

You need to drop Your articles that are plagiarized.

And to add on to this, if you refuse to remove the articles that are plagiarized, at least properly give them credit. "TEP Announcement" and "Europeia News" are both far from properly giving the authors credit.

[Kaystein]

You need to drop Your articles that are plagiarized.

And to add on to this, if you refuse to remove the articles that are plagiarized, at least properly give them credit. "TEP Announcement" and "Europeia News" are both far from properly giving the authors credit.

To completely derail that, maybe the author of the Independent Newspaper doesn't know what plagiarism is. Heck as a kid growing up nobody in my schools actually bothered to explain to me what it was and how to avoid it. It was just a thing that existed that I had to avoid, and I didn't even know copyright existed until an English teacher told me around fourth grade not to copy parts of wikipedia for my five-paragraph essay.. I still didn't get a decent explanation when I asked. I had to actually research it online. Our tax dollars hard at work for education.

So for the author, I'll lay out what to avoid and what to do appropriately:

NO: Don't Copy/pasting anything from somebody else, at all. Don't even imitate a word from another source. Don't copy somebody else's structure either (google "structure" for writing). Don't use somebody else's ideas throughout your paper.

DO: Write your own words. Format it to however it looks pleasing to you. You can take inspiration from several other sources, so long as it doesn't become copying (google the difference). As far as copying goes, you CAN quote other people, but you need to add quotations to the words you use WHILE listing them as a source. In some cases you may need to ask for permission, but this rule isn't a constant when it comes to publicly viewable forums. You DO need to quote/phrase them and credit them appropriately in any instance.

[Numero Capitan]

Please use harvard referencing on your attributions too or we'll all have to come back again and complain about something that literally makes no difference to anyones life or region

[NS Boy 2]

NationStates Recruitment Centre - A New Initiative by The Independent Newspaper

[Wymondham]

How useful this would be were it not for the Find a region megathread

[Lord Dominator]

How useful this would be were it not for the Find a region megathread

Or recruitment tgs

[All Wild Things]

How useful this would be were it not for the Find a region megathread

The "NationStates Recruitment Centre" and the "Find a region megathread" have different purposes.
The region is a place for other regions to place "Join my region!" posts.
The megathread is a place for nations to ask "Which region is best for me?"

Or recruitment tgs

You well know that there are other ways to recruit than TG. For example, advertising your region on other people's WFEs... This is just another method.

Whether or not this new region is a good idea, you both give the impression that you're shitting on it because you're upset about the earlier plagiarism incident.

[Wymondham]

How useful this would be were it not for the Find a region megathread

The "NationStates Recruitment Centre" and the "Find a region megathread" have different purposes.
The region is a place for other regions to place "Join my region!" posts.
The megathread is a place for nations to ask "Which region is best for me?"

Or recruitment tgs

You well know that there are other ways to recruit than TG. For example, advertising your region on other people's WFEs... This is just another method.

Whether or not this new region is a good idea, you both give the impression that you're shitting on it because you're upset about the earlier plagiarism incident.

Are you NS Boy 2 by any chance?

[Lord Dominator]

Or recruitment tgs

You well know that there are other ways to recruit than TG. For example, advertising your region on other people's WFEs... This is just another method.

Mmm, disagree as to being a viable method, but okay I guess
Whether or not this new region is a good idea, you both give the impression that you're shitting on it because you're upset about the earlier plagiarism incident.[/quote]
No, I'm just grumpy in general

[Twilight Imperium]

And to add on to this, if you refuse to remove the articles that are plagiarized, at least properly give them credit. "TEP Announcement" and "Europeia News" are both far from properly giving the authors credit.

To completely derail that, maybe the author of the Independent Newspaper doesn't know what plagiarism is.

Except that's bullcrap, the definition is in the rules.

if another user steals your designs (and that would be either using images without your permission or reproducing large portions of text unaltered), that is plagiarism which deserves to be its own offense. If you point the moderators at the thread, they'll tell them to knock it off.

[Kaystein]

To completely derail that, maybe the author of the Independent Newspaper doesn't know what plagiarism is.

Except that's bullcrap, the definition is in the rules.

if another user steals your designs (and that would be either using images without your permission or reproducing large portions of text unaltered), that is plagiarism which deserves to be its own offense. If you point the moderators at the thread, they'll tell them to knock it off.

Well okay, in this case nevermind.

[The Newspaper Boy]

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