Re: [Aroid-l] Wikipedia`s falsehoods

From: ExoticRainforest <Steve at exoticrainforest.com> on 2009.02.03 at 12:56:50 Interesting Hermine.  Curiously I'mnow finding my own material on other websites (word for word) includingWiki!  Although I do my best to make sure my info is accurate, how inthe world would anyone know it is accurate enough to just publish itword for word on an "Encyclopedia" website?  Sites in SE Asia havebecome very bad about "borrowing" material from all sorts of sourcesand reusing it without credit in the origianl form!  I've found quite afew of my pages reproduced intact minus the photos.  And sometimes theyuse the photos as well!  I created a moving banner of orchid photos formy orchid page (and I don't collect a lot of orchids) and found thething in full motion form on a SE Asian orchid site!  You can screamand yell about copyright but with the internet many people will useanything they want and there is little you can do about it.  What everhappened to civility and crediting others for what anyone uses as theirown work? Steve Lucas www.ExoticRainforest.com hermine wrote: At 08:19 AM 2/1/2009, you wrote: If youGoogle most species or''things'' you may need information on, a list of possibilites comesup,choose the best ones you can, avoidingWikipedia. maybe i told you maybe not, that i once went looking for information onwiki about Lorenzo da Ponte, the librettist for Mozart and everything Ifound there looked curiously familiar, because I HAD WRITTEN IT.However,in researching some hard science, i did find the footnotes andreferencescheck out. I used to test dictionaries by looking up some obscure dog breed to seewhat they had to say, to see if it added to my own knowledge, andseldom,seldom, was this so. it would be hard to find more info in one place onAroids than I have found on this list. herm _______________________________________________Aroid-L mailing listAroid-L@www.gizmoworks.comhttp://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l --------------070902020603040700050301

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