Posted a new thread since this is a pretty huge development: https://www.resetera.com/threads/ig...er-even-more-plagiarism-surfaces.62038/unread
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Fired IGN Nintendo editor responds to plagiarism accusation (Update: More examples discovered)
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Damn, I thought we were done when this thread reached 30 pages, so much to read through now lol.
Are there still defenders for this guy? Hope not
Are there still defenders for this guy? Hope not
Come on. It's just straight plagiarism.
These aren't ideas he's copying and misattributing them to himself.
He's copying sentence structure and content and changing words. It's blatantly obvious.
That probably has nothing to do with this. He's been tweeting a lot, ranting about comment sections that complain about the "proper way" to review a gameIs this new ?I Did not notice last time I checked his twitter
Good point. You're right, I forgot that example.
Unless its the old photographic memory plus cryptomnesia. Happens to the best of us. /s
It's actually his preview article that copied someone else's review article. The preview was removed but the review is still up.
FYI it's looking more and more likely that most of Fhis work published on IGN has editorial copy in it sufficiently derivative of previously-published work that it is a significant ethical breach and will need to be removed.
We are moving on it as fast as we can as a Senior Editorial staff.
There are complications. Including challenges around removing review scores and the way out site CMS works (which is why Dead Cells unfortunately displayed a "0.0 Disaster" score for a time).
A final decision hasn't been made but I think the most likely outcome is all of his work will be removed, and we'll decide from there what we need to do in terms of replacing the back-catalogue of critical content we owe game makers.
We are moving on it as fast as we can as a Senior Editorial staff.
There are complications. Including challenges around removing review scores and the way out site CMS works (which is why Dead Cells unfortunately displayed a "0.0 Disaster" score for a time).
A final decision hasn't been made but I think the most likely outcome is all of his work will be removed, and we'll decide from there what we need to do in terms of replacing the back-catalogue of critical content we owe game makers.
Hey, it's a reasonable thing to do. Good luck with that, and too bad about all the extra work that you have to do to scrub your site.
What a completely shitty situation. Man, I can't even imagine the headache this would all be.
Locking Thread.
A new thread has been made to note IGN's stance of removing the majority/all of this editor's work, so we will move the discussion there.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/ig...er-even-more-plagiarism-surfaces.62038/unread
A new thread has been made to note IGN's stance of removing the majority/all of this editor's work, so we will move the discussion there.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/ig...er-even-more-plagiarism-surfaces.62038/unread
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