Plagiarizing - just not limited to Code of Ethics
We had a problem here in Gilford with certain people plagiarizing material without acknowledging that it was from another place (look at the bottom of the post to refresh your memory) - that Code of Ethics for which it was said that "many hours" had been put into it - and it turned out to be a screen scrape.
And again, I think it hilarious that Evans tried to apply it to a non-employee!
Ah yes, sloppiness does in another:
It seemed like an honorable goal: Draft an honor code for University of Texas at San Antonio students to follow, exhorting them not to cheat or plagiarize.
But when students threw a draft of the new honor code onto the Internet for feedback, some noticed a problem: Parts of the code appeared to have been lifted word for word from another school's honor code, without attribution. Even the definition of plagiarism was, well, plagiarized.
You gotta love the Internet. You have to feel sorry for those folks that don't understand that ALL malfeasance can be caught - almost everything ends up there and then becomes searchable.
You know, your mother told you not to lie. The paddle Dad was holding was made of wood. Society's is made of bandwith, search engines, and derision.
