http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Miller http://timesonline.typepad.com/line_and_length/2009/01/ashes-heroes--3.html
I must say that I wonder whether the author of the Times blog Patrick Kidd looked at the Wikipedia that I wrote on Keith Miller and used it as a research tool.
Probably the most tell-tale sign is the picture of the Miller bowling, which seems almost identical to the one in the Wikipedia article. Normally that wouldn't surprise at all, because photos are taken with permission from the original author, but in that case, I uploaded it manually, and as I do not have a scanner, I took a photo of the original photo from the book (the photo's copyright has expired), which meant that the photo was geometrically skewed compared to the original article. Before I cropped the photo of the photo, it was not rectangular. The chances of the author making his own copy of the photo in the same crooked way is not very likely....
Given that I used the book "Miller's Luck" by Roland Perry (with credits), which at the time I didn't realise was so strewn with errors, the author might regret copying from it. Although I have weeded out the data errors, some of the anecdotes may have simply been made up, as Ramachandra Guha claimed in The Monthly in October 2005: "conversations are invented, thoughts imputed, motives intuited – without any directions as to their source or provenance".
I can't say I am worried if my writing is meandering around the place. I guess I should be flattered that my work is being circulated more, just like when the Times of India copied it verbatim from a variety of pages, including a lot of errors from something I had forgotten to clean up. It was funny that I made a silly prediction that Irfan Pathan would be a likely captain of India in the future and the Times of India copied it.
It would be nice if I was credited and it generated more traffic to this blog though.......
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While the use of the article itself is a bit disturbing, it seems eminently sensible for papers to use the Commons as an image source.
Oh, nothing wrong with the photo being used of course, I just knew it meant the author looked at WP....
Lmao.. u say "I can't say I am worried if my writing is meandering around the place. I guess I should be flattered that my work is being circulated more," i thought WP was a collaborative enterprise between many editors, and that nobody actually owns a WP article or is identified as an author?
Surely Wikipedia can be copied off. If i were am author at the times of India I would copy all of your truly fantastic writing.
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