Skipper2Skipper talk:Village pump

From Skipper2Skipper

Dear Skipper2Skipper It has been pointed out to us at Noonsite that copyrighted text from noonsite.com has been directly copied onto your site in at least two places. If you compare the text of http://noonsite.com/Countries/Australia with http://www.skipper2skipper.com/wiki/Australia it is identical. The same is true of the general United Kingdom information. If your site does make any reference to Noonsite, I have not been able to find it. Thank you, the noonsite.com webmaster.

Hi, I've had a look, you are correct. Australia has clearly been copied off your site. General info for UK has a paragraph that is the same, but other paragraphs are not, it's a bit of mishmash. Apologies, it was not the intention and not really the idea. I can remove it, of course, and will do so at your request, unless you want to have the link to you saying that this content came from your site? But it might be a bit difficult to manage, as people can randomly change the content it might appear that what we say is your content is in fact not, i.e. someone might have changed it after the link was placed, you don't have control over it and not do I really, if that makes sense. Anyway, let what you would prefer. I will have a closer look at UK this evening. Thanks for pointing this out, I am sure you appreciate that these things will happen from time to time on an open site. Cheers --Skipper 13:04, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Hello again. I've had a chance to have a closer look now, so, Australia is all cleaned up, all the text on that page was copied from your site, so I just took it all out. For UK, there were similar paragraphs, like the first one, this I removed and also took out some sentences that looked like they had come from your site, but were modified. Thanks for pointing this out. --Skipper 18:57, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for that. It would be nice to put a link to Noonsite somewhere.www.noonsite.com