Comments on: Tourism Chief Warns Employees Against Plagiarism…

By: mr. jap

mr. jap — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:20:29 +0000

The Poland incident, this plagiarism matter is just some of the bobos the DOT had made & leT us CHALLENGE the new Sec. Ramon Jimenez to TEST ALL ( meaning ALL ) his people in the Dept. of Tourism if they can sell their respective places as the DOT from Manila Central office to all its Regional Offices as the bureaucratic red tape is widespread – which is CONTRARY to the Mission Vision of the Department , to sell the Philippines LOCAL & INTERNATIONAL.

KUDOS to Mr. MARKETMAN for opening up a can of worms ( attitudes of DOT personnel is UGLY ).

By: Marketman

Marketman — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:38:58 +0000

anna, thanks, saw that article too… :)

By: anna

anna — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:16:22 +0000

MM, please check pdi today under biz buzz, an article by abigail ho entitled “stolen words?” re above subject matter. =)

By: ich9

ich9 — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:22:55 +0000

Just judging from people reposting my site’s posts, plagiarism is quite rampant among certain circles (scrapers and autoblogs). Sadly, many people aren’t even “aware” they are stealing your content. They think copying and pasting on the Internet is the way online content is generated.

If anyone reading this is wondering if their content has been stolen, you can easily find out by entering your url at copyscape.com They offer a free plagiarism check. There are other tools out there but they just use Google strings and aren’t as good. Copyscape zeroes in on the portions that were stolen and the sites who ripped you.

Why is this a problem? Besides the annoyance of someone taking credit for your work, duplicate content also penalizes you on Google and other search engines.

By: Bong

Bong — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:17:05 +0000

Regarding the plagiarized Marketman article… Test page! What a sorry excuse! If it is visible online for everyone to see, then it’s not a test page. I can almost smell another “test page” excuse coming up!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 23:11:38 +0000

e, I think the point is that at least there was some positive result, if only a warning. But yes, it still boils down to the crux of the matter, and that hasn’t been resolved yet… and I hope there will be a definitive answer after the holiday. Stealing is stealing, even if done by a contractor, an outsourced firm or individual, and even if the stolen item is “returned” or taken off the web…

By: e

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:43:20 +0000

I don’t understand how people seem to be taking Jimenez’s word for this. Of course he will warn against plagiarism. It doesn’t mean 1) that he knew nothing or did not condone it, or 2) he’s just trying to save face for himself, if not for the agency.

also, try googling trinadelro and a lot of freelance writer webpages crop up. granted, this may be a common username, but there still is the possibility that they are the same person.

It’s likely that DOT is just outsourcing its content, but that’s beside the point. Remember DSWD a couple of weeks ago. it’s so easy to blame a freelancer, or even regular staff, or a computer program. But the fact of the matter is, plagiarism is plagiarism.

By: aprilwilkie

aprilwilkie — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:02:18 +0000

The last section you wrote also shows a problem that creates a major problem in the fact even if you wanted to “credit” an article are you giving credit to the right website? IF multiple people by accident also did the same with the wrong site would it gain better online rankings for the article?

Also was anyone questioned about what they did for the rest of the day as obviously cutting and pasting only takes a couple of minutes.

By: ManilaRaf

ManilaRaf — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:49:55 +0000

All that was needed was changing an “n” to an “m”:

“Hindi kami magpe-plagiarize. Hindi kami maglalagay ng information na hindi galing sa amin.”

Incidentally, some of my friends from college (Same alma mater as Marketman, Go Eagles!!! =) ) are teachers and they run across this all the time from students that they teach at the elementary and high school level. Of course they can’t always check everything, but if they run across a report or assignment that seems to be written in a manner out of character from the student, a simple Google search is very revealing. (One friend spoke of a custom piece of software available at her US-based school district that can do this for whole reports).

Intellectual laziness and lack of fear of being sanctioned is what I think is the cause of this. Odds are whoever posted either of these pieces on the DOT website has gotten away with such behavior previously and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was done even in school.

By: PanchoA

PanchoA — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:10:01 +0000

MM, Sec Mon Jimenez is a fair and conscientious guy. I worked with him. He’s one good man in that Cabinet, along with Sec. Rene Almendras of Energy.