Dear Daman ji It is surely unethical to copy past whole text, paragraph or few or more lines from another source, but when a person compiles information from different sources and write in his own style it is neither unethical nor infringement of copy right. Just to bring to your knowledge each species has a certain description given by original author, it will appear in hundreds of different Floras, Manuals with 60-90 percent common information. If this is considered as unethical, there won't be any book written on floristics of any part of the World. If a plant is annual it will have life span of one season and every book will write it like that without being accused of copy-pasting information. Similarly if this particular plant has flowering period of 9-12 days, surely you don't prevent her from writing and mentioning it as some thing else. any thing else. Again surely "conical blooms and green bracts" are technical terms not to be taken as copying material from any source. I will request members not to copy paste information from different sources without mentioning source, but I agree it can't be done when you are compiling information from several sources and writing it in your own style. At the same time I will request Daman ji to be more active member, spend energy in contributing to the Group (there is lot to be done as Garg ji, myself and Dinesh ji have been mentioning). It is good to point out major lapses, but definitely not when not even half the sentence is common with a certain book or website. As I have been writing often let us spread information and goodwill.
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Madhuri Raut <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Prashant ji and Gurcharan ji for your appreciation . > Daman ji I will surely cite all the references for the information I write > in my future posts. Thank you for giving the references for this post. > > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 3:59 PM, A. Daman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Respected members, >> >> I am a silent reader of this group and enjoy learning about Indian flora >> here. Although I have mentioned this once before, I feel compelled >> to reiterate my displeasure at the slack attitude of the scientific >> community vis-à-vis citation of sources. >> >> An uninformed, gullible reader could easily be misled into believing that >> Dr Bhagyashri Ranade (/ Madhuri Raut) is the author of the text in her >> email. In fact, the "detailed information" posted by her has clearly >> been copied from various sources with nary a credit or acknowledgment. >> >> The first sentence, "*blooms are conical ... greenish bract*", has been >> copied from Matt Glenn's site: >> http://www.easybloom.com/plantlibrary/plant/peace-lily-1 >> >> The next two sentences, "*an individual flower consist(s) of a central >> female structure ... when they are actually producing pollen*", have >> been copied from the fifth paragraph under the subhead "That beautiful >> spathe. Is it really a flower?" on this site: >> http://www.exoticrainforest.com/Spathiphyllum%20Clevelandii%20%20pc.htm >> >> The next two sentences, "*Flowering lasts 9 to 12 days ... all over the >> spadix during the male phase*", have been copied from the penultimate >> paragraph of Todd Boland's article 'Peace Lily Revisited': >> http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/1953/ >> >> The next four sentences, "*The female flowers open first ... attracted >> to the flowers by their odour*", have been lifted from >> the antepenultimate paragraph of the aforementioned source, and the >> following sentence, "*In the morning hours ... soap-like fragrance*", >> from the penultimate paragraph of the same source. >> >> The next sentence, "*The flowers turn green ... and seed has been set*", >> appears >> in the comment posted by Aboutflowers.com [dated August 2010] on this site: >> http://www.aboutflowers.com/flower-a-plant-information-and-photos/plants/spathiphyllum.html >> >> The last two sentences, "*The fruit and its seeds ripen ... becomes soft >> and yellow*", have been copied from the final two paragraphs of Phoebe >> Strauss' article on this site: >> http://www.ehow.com/how_7994524_seeds-peace-lily-ripe.html >> >> I strongly disapprove of such misappropriation. Anybody who can exert the >> effort to indulge in such a copy-paste operation would certainly be capable >> of citing the source without breaking a sweat. >> >> I believe a group such as this ought to seriously focus on improving the >> essential credibility of the scientific interaction it hosts. >> >> With regards, Aggie Daman >> >> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Madhuri Raut <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dec 2011 and Jan 2012 >>> >>> Sharing images of Spathiphyllum wallisii at a private society at Pune >>> >>> Family Araceae >>> >>> Common name Peace lily >>> >>> Blooms are conical clumps of small flowers borne on a stalk surrounded >>> by a large white or greenish bract. An individual flower consists of a >>> central female structure with a stigma at its center and several male >>> flowers surrounding that stigma. These male flowers are difficult to >>> observe except during male anthesis when they are actually producing >>> pollen. Flowering lasts 9 to 12 days (although the attractive white spathe >>> may be evident for weeks), with the female phase lasting 4 to 5 days, >>> followed immediately by the male phase of 4 to 6 days. Pollen is >>> continuously produced all over the spadix during the male phase. The female >>> flowers open first (i.e., are receptive to pollen) and after a period of >>> time, ‘close'. Once closed the males open to release pollen. This delay >>> between male and female flowers prevents self-pollination. Pollination is >>> mostly via flies, bees or beetles that are attracted to the flowers by >>> their odour. In the morning hours, plants produce a spicy to soap-like >>> fragrance >>> >>> The flowers turn green when they have been pollinated and seed has been >>> set. The fruit and its seeds ripen four to six months after pollination.When >>> ripe the spadix becomes soft and yellow >>> -- >>> Regards >>> Dr.Bhagyashri Ranade >>> >> >> > > > -- > Regards > Dr.Bhagyashri Ranade >
