What is the preferred method for flagging plagiarism?

Sorry if there is a more appropriate forum for this question. I have found a few pages that are straight copy/pastes from other sites. I would like to flag these pages as such, to help keep the content here fresh and expose the losers trying for free points. What's the preferred way of doing this? I have just been editing the page and replacing all the copied text with a message and a link to the original content.

That is probably the best way - just edit the article and replace all the text with "Plagiarized from <insert site here>" OR write your own text in it's place and note in the Moderator notes that the original was plagiarized from the site and you re-written it...

Yeah, I'd say just redo it yourself for the time being, though I'm sure solutions to that kind of thing are coming.

Post the link of the page that was plagiarized and post the link to the original source and we'll remove it quicker so it doesn't have to go through the queue, and in this forum is fine.

I'm guessing they are working on a Reporting method at the moment, seems to be the rumour anyway :D

Here's the most recent one I found for the game Disgaea: Hour of Darkness...

GB page - http://www.giantbomb.com/disgaea-hour-of-darkness/61-18540/
Original source - http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/nipponichi/nipponichi2.htm

"Here's the most recent one I found for the game Disgaea: Hour of Darkness...

GB page - http://www.giantbomb.com/disgaea-hour-of-darkness/61-18540/
Original source - http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/nipponichi/nipponichi2.htm
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I moved the topic to Editing and Tools, as it seems to fit better here.

We don't have an official way to report copyright violations just yet, but please refrain from replacing the content with just a notice and submitting, as that only adds to the queue.  I think for now we can keep this page open as a "citizen journalism" page and we'll keep an eye on it for stuff.

Thank you!

GB page - http://www.giantbomb.com/demon-overlord-seedle/94-1122/
Original source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makai_Kingdom#Overlords under Seedle

GB page - http://www.giantbomb.com/salome/94-938/
Original source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makai_Kingdom#Overlords under Salome the Traitor

GB page - http://www.giantbomb.com/rozalin/94-1025/
Original source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disgaea_2:_Cursed_Memories and http://akurasu.net/wiki/index.php?title=Makai_Senki_Disgaea_2/Characters

GB page - http://www.giantbomb.com/adell/94-1070/
Original source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disgaea_characters under Adell

There are more examples, however it's becoming obvious by cross referencing page edits who is most likely responsible for a good deal of these. I'm sure the mods can easily verify this and take another look at this person's submissions. There are more from the suspected user, but I will not continue to post these unless they appear to originate from a different user.

effiay: Thank you - plagarised content has been removed from the pages you linked, looking in to it further now.

Send a PM with links like the ones effiay's post to a mod or two should work. But like another mod said, putting in the already ialready long queue isn't the fastest way to go.

I'm assuming in the future there will be a small (or extremely large :) ) button or something that will flag plagiarized material for someone to look at  (mod or what not).

Hate to say it, but the text in the Uniracers article is plagiarism.

Bomb article: http://www.giantbomb.com/uniracers/61-16228/
GameFAQs FAQ: http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/snes/file/588824/9137

I'm pretty sure both pages are ripping the text directly from the instruction manual's intro, as well (though I can't prove this at the moment, since I don't have the manual at hand). While it's cool and all, it's not original, and without proper citation it's plagiarism.

GB: http://www.giantbomb.com/metal-gear-acd-2/61-8702/
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear_Acid_2

GB: http://www.giantbomb.com/ar-tonelico-melody-of-elemia/61-17621/
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar_tonelico:_Melody_of_Elemia

GB: http://www.giantbomb.com/metal-gear-solid-portable-ops/61-14555/
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid:_Portable_Ops

I think he's gotten all of his points from copying web pages. That really irks me =/


Wow. This kingmaster even stole from a quiz generator.

GB: http://www.giantbomb.com/axel-steel/94-780/
Original: http://www.bebo.com/c/apps/my_apps?MemberId=1433519810 (scroll down to Which Guitar Hero are You?)

Edit: Offending review has been remedied and creator apologized.

Since this has been brought back up, why does Kingmasters still have his high amount of points?

Giantbomb's "Champions Online" page:

http://www.giantbomb.com/champions-online/61-21508/

Plagiarised from Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champions_Online

Much of the beginning of the page is plagiarised directly from the "Characters" section of Wiki. The rest of the article only has a few words changed from a lot of wiki's description.

"LethalKi11ler copied an entire FAQ and posted it on the The World Ends With You page. He didn't even bother to change the font from Courier New to Arial.

Also, more and more people are using cheap and sneaky ways to get their points count up. Although there does seem to be a bug floating around inflating point counts, I highly doubt that's the reason why someone gets 1500 points for a page with only 50 images and no text, while I get 500 points for a page with 250 images and some text. That person must've cheated, and it's easily explainable how.
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"Since this has been brought back up, why does Kingmasters still have his high amount of points?
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