Giving credit where credit is due

Dude… NOT cool. Nabbin someone else’s content with NO reference, citation, or any note of credit for the material and posting it on your site as your material IS NOT COOL. Can’t remember who, but a while back this happened to another blogger and that guy got slammed as well as black listed by a bunch of folk. I’ll watch what happens with this issue…

I’ve seen how much work and time it takes to not only document what Heather documented, but also to type it out into a post, all nice looking in HTML. It would get under my skin if someone did the same thing to me.

I noticed some of my content duplicated on another site without a reference to my site (see my article here, and the copied one here on Maxim Tarassenko's blog). I've requested the post to be fixed. I don't mind people referencing my original material, but it takes time to author this stuff and I'd appreciate it if I was given credit when credit was due.

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[Update 8/22 9:30p] Cheers to Maxim for quickly recitfying the situation... seems like an honest mistake. I stand by the issue of giving credit where it's due, and Maxim has now done that.

posted on Monday, August 22, 2005 2:59 PM

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# re: Giving credit where credit is due 8/22/2005 5:33 PM Maxim Tarassenko

Hi, Andrew!

I’m awfully sorry; I did not want to harm you in any way. If you could read Russian, you would see that unfortunately I haven’t noticed where I’ve got this information(I just copied it in OneNote), but found it very useful and worth to be translated in Russian. As you can see, I have added links to your blog and your post. I'm very thankful to Heather for sharing it with the community, it is a really good work.

Terribly sorry,

Yours
Maxim

# re: Giving credit where credit is due 8/22/2005 6:02 PM Maxim Tarassenko

And again, http://www.dotnetblog.de/PermaLink,guid,ccd96af9-c039-4a0f-945e-8cb3b1d4b5bb.aspx

# re: Giving credit where credit is due 8/22/2005 6:59 PM Paul Martello

I agree hole hearted with your point. Perhaps an etiquette of referencing is required and more importantly a step by step approach on how to do this. This way everyone wishing to reference somebody else's code or comment can do so without plagarising the content and more importantly "give credit where it's due"

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