One possible approach would be to contact the author directly. Newyorkbrad
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:43 PM, James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote: > Someone has posted a question about WP:OUTING. We are currently dealing > with a copyright issue ( a textbook has copied liberally from Wikipedia > without proper attribution and the author claiming the work as their own ). > Before we inform the publisher however we need to make sure that the author > of the book is not a Wikipedia editor who wrote the original content and > than released it under a different license. In this instance this was not > the case. > > However is the simply fact of attempting to verify that an author is not a > Wikipedian considered WP:OUTING? Not attempting to verify it before > informing the publisher and amazon however would be unethical as we may > harm someones career and need to make sure we are correct. Other peoples > thoughts? > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine > www.opentextbookofmedicine.com > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
