Kirkin' of the Tartan

[David Duncan]

I have had a Canadian minister submit an article to my site on this subject, anyone who would like to read it should go to www.your-kilt.com/the-kirkin-of-the-tartan.html

I trust it will throw some light on the subject.

Kind Regards, David.

www.your-kilt.com

[macwilkin]

I have had a Canadian minister submit an article to my site on this subject, anyone who would like to read it should go to www.your-kilt.com/the-kirkin-of-the-tartan.html

I trust it will throw some light on the subject.

Kind Regards, David.

www.your-kilt.com

This article looks very suspiciously like an article of mine that appears on the Scottish Tartans Museum's web site:

http://scottishtartans.org/kirkin.htm

If the author did use my article as a source, I would like credit.

Regards,

Todd

ps: thread moved to tartans and heraldry section.

[Highland Logan]

This article looks very suspiciously like an article of mine that appears on the Scottish Tartans Museum's web site:

http://scottishtartans.org/kirkin.htm

If the author did use my article as a source, I would like credit.

Regards,

Todd

ps: thread moved to tartans and heraldry section.

Sorry I read both, and I don't see it being similar to yours, anymore than other articals I've seen writen.

Frank

[macwilkin]

EDIT: The webmaster has contacted the author, who did use my article as a source. Both were very apologetic and agreed to credit the STM article.

All's well that ends well.

Todd

[JS Sanders]

I have no problems with the gentleman using my article as a source, but it is academic courtesy to credit your sources.

Even more so with websites. When search engines are working and find two sites with closely worded content, the search engine 'decides' which is the authentic website. And they get it wrong regularly.

In Google, the loser is shoved to the bottom of the search pile. It can be so deep no one conducting a search will ever find it. And it's almost as difficult as re-establishing your stolen identity to get your original ranking back. Happened two years ago to me, and it was two months before I was back in the same rankings. No way of knowing how much business was lost.

About twice annually, some ding-a-ling tinker piper copies my website as his own. Happened as recently as two weeks ago. Nothing happened and he quickly removed my intellectual property.

I use www.copyscape.com to prevent this from occuring. Copyscape caught this latest incident. They offer a free service and it is convenient to use.

Unfortunately for those who wish to acknowledge my website content as a source, for the same reasons above, I cannot permit it.

Slainte,
steve

[BoldHighlander]

I use www.copyscape.com to prevent this from occuring. Copyscape caught this latest incident. They offer a free service and it is convenient to use.

Wow! Thanks for the link Steve!
I'm going to use this for a couple of my sites!