Apr 22, 2014
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Top: Wikipedia. Bottom: plagiarized text on bdsmwiki.info, except that the bdsmwiki admin changed "LGBT rights movements" to "Rainbow rights movements". For some reason.
I'm not going to post every plagiarized article here. It would be too many. I'll just post one every now and then, as a friendly reminder that a significant portion of this wiki is stolen (with undesired bits edited as necessary, and all citations and links removed).
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After being informed of the copyright violation on the Conditioning article, the Admin replaced it with different copyright material, this time stolen from about.com.
about.com article
bdsmwiki.info article which plagiarizes it
So this action demonstrates that the important thing isn't integrity; it's just avoiding being caught. Also, none of the other plagiarized articles were replaced.
Initially with this blog I wanted to point out how harmful the beliefs of the author were, and how typical they are of the mainstream beliefs in "the bdsm community". But it occurred to me that the practice of stealing without attribution is quite in line with the standard operating procedure of kink culture.
Left: wikipedia. Right: bdsmwiki.info article which plagiarizes it. Btw, the image is stolen as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Classical_Conditioning.svg
Writing articles is so haaard. Easier to steal the bits you like. :)
The idea that I would log onto BDSMWIKI.info as my first course of action if I were having a heart attack or hemorrhaging blood is terrifying.
two pictures on left: wikipedia
two pictures on right: stolen text on bdsmwiki.info
Wow, that writing on bdsmwiki.info is suspiciously grammatically correct. There's even a hyph--- WAIT A MINUTE
top: bdsmwiki.info
bottom: identical text on wikipedia
(In fact, a past revision of the page had that [1] on it, which was quickly removed. Can't be having any references in these parts!)
I doubt this is illegal, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth pointing out.