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Re: #1003533 “wolwoo” has quite a history of plagiarism
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nullius
on 28/04/2020, 16:06:19 UTC

I reported this one as plagiarism. Most of the other ones seem to have some quotations around them or the source of the content. But this one is definitely plagiarism.

I noticed that some (fewer than half) of the posts have source links thrown in, and some do not.  So—the issue here is at best a mix of plagiarism, and improper attributions that give the wrong impression of the authorship of the text (a worse form of the same issue that I tried to explain to wolwoo earlier on this thread).  It does not change the outcome.

Relevant aside:  Since yesterday, I have been working on a post about what plagiarism is and is not, for another one of the plagiarism case threads.  I am quite familiar with this issue; and I know how to distinguish properly between plagiarism, improper authorial attribution, and also the very different but oft-confused concept of copyright infringement.



A “crypto” forum should not rely too much on trusted archives for its chain of evidence, especially when said archives are CAPTCHAing Tor users.  In case of editing or deletion of posts, I have digitally signed my own attestations of quotes of wolwoo’s eight cited posts as I observed them about an hour ago, and timestamped same with Peter Todd’s OpenTimestamps (which relies on the security of the Bitcoin blockchain).  The SHA-256 hashes of my PGP-clearsigned attestation files that I can produce upon request:

Code:
137ad8cc525e5b913df8b31e1f8202e963bb7004fb0dc1b89d7065321c47865a
057ca436df257f295db8f8356d2f70c79af6b34c5e429d31f09b3644cc9a4758
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23c56e50f990f84094f574033e7b2f234dab1514b3d69ad2dc9927b1ea2a511a

I will also provide OTS proof files upon request.  (On a related note, I am working on a major update to Nullian Verification.)