Talk:Online ethnography
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[edit] Copyvio
This article is substantially identical in content to the listed URL, as well as several PDF documents found via a cursory Google search [1]. The source documents do not include any definitive copyright information. --Alan Au 00:54, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
The first paragraph of Methodology section is an exact quote of from the link to which is referenced. It should be made clear that that is a quote, or rephrase it substantially. Poderi (talk) 09:17, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Response
I started this article with some material on Virtual Ethnography that I had had on my computer for some time - the original source of the material lost / forgotten / never recorded - OK, I should have looked harder.
The original article I submitted clearly had similarities to the web site you listed - thanks for searching it out - but I don't believe that it was really an infringement of copyright. Within an academic setting, you might have argued that it was plagiarism, but I don't think it amounted to "a copy of substantial portions of the original work".
Nevertheless, I have now edited and expanded the article to make it even less like "a copy of substantial portions of the original work" and placed it on the temporary pageVirtual Ethnography/Temp. Finally, to avoid any accusations of plagiarism, I have also tried to make sure that all of the original sources are clear.
I hope this solves the problem to everybody's satisfaction.
Compo 17:50, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Article name
Also, if this survives the copyvio process, it should be renamed to "Virtual ethnography" (second word lowercase); just a side note for later. --Alan Au 19:51, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
- Done. Chick Bowen 01:38, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
