This article is intended as a landing page for the management of pirated content and plagiarism. It does not define new rules - it simply summarizes facts, articles, posts, and adds teasers.

Community Rules

Right and Wrong

• Terms of Use / Microsoft Developer Services Agreement
  This is the legal foundation of our MSDN and TechNet activities. The agreement covers this topics: Services, Software, Microsoft Content, Security, privacy, and Customer Data, Customer accounts, customer conduct, identity services, and feedback, Term, termination, and suspension, Warranties, Defense of claims, Limitations of liability.
  
  
• Types of Articles Not Appropriate for TechNet Wiki
  This article of the Community Council is an excellent guideline. You can use this citation as a rule of thumb: “Do not copy other people's content to the Wiki, even if the OWNER SAID IT WAS OK.”
  
  
• Wiki: Best Practices for Giving Credit
  This article explores the borderline between “OK” and “NOT OK”,
  
  
• Wiki: Best Practices for Source References and Quotes
  This article is currently a stub, but already helpful.
  
  
• Wiki: Code of Conduct
  "This Code of Conduct covers our behavior as members of the TechNet Wiki Community, in any forum, mailing list, wiki, Web site, IRC channel, install-fest, public meeting, or private correspondence."
  
  
• Wiki: How to Contribute Content to TechNet Wiki
  This article defines general contribution guidelines. Pirated content is only one aspect of this article, it also covers topics like tags and formatting.

How to ...

• Wiki: How to Report a TechNet Wiki Page
  Ed’s article is the Swiss army knife in case you want to report spam, pirated content, duplicate articles, test articles, or performance issues.

Analysis

Plagiarism Charts

• Plagiarism at TechNet Wiki - First Empirical Data and Analysis
  You may have noticed it: Plagiarism in TechNet Wiki is becoming a problem, and it is getting more attention now. This article presents a first empirical analysis, gives insights to some mechanisms behind plagiarism, explains the current rules, shows alternatives to plagiarism, and summarizes the critical points. Last but not least it proposes first steps to fix the problem. (read more)
  
  
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  Plagiarism Charts - September 2013
  In July 2013 the article Plagiarism at TechNet Wiki - First Empirical Data Analysis presented a first empirical analysis, gave insights to mechanisms behind plagiarism and proposed first steps to fix the problem. Three month later TechNet Wiki is on the right track: The Community Council extended the focus area "Spam & Article Deletion" to "Spam, Plagiarism & Article Deletion" and is working on a strong framework. Improvements should be measured. This article gives facts and figures about plagiarism at TechNet Wiki for September 2013. (read more)

Search for already detected plagiarisms by tag

• TechNet Articles > All Tags > Pirated Content
• TechNet Articles > All Tags > Candidate for Deletion

Wiki Ninja Blog Posts

• 2014-03-29 - Top Contributors Awards! Translations translated! World of PowerShell! Gurus and legends!!
  "Unfortunately, many of Daniel's contributions seem to be plagiarised from other sources, so some of his articles will probably be removed, mostly by Peter Geelen, [...] !"
  
  
• 2014-01-09 - TNWiki Community Council: Blast to the Past - 4/1/2010 (Landing Page, Plagiarism, CSS, and more)  (Ed Price)
  "Plagiarism: The council made some good progress with some basic guidelines. Peter Geelen and I wrote up those guidelines into a basic process here: Wiki User Guide: Handling Abuse and Wiki: How to Report a TechNet Wiki Page. Today, Peter leads our Plagiarism efforts with Naomi, Richard, Carsten, and others supporting them. This is Focus Area #5; see TechNet Wiki Community Council: Areas of Focus."
  
  
• 2013-12-27 - Thank you! (Peter Geelen)
  "Thank you for ... helping us to keep the TNWiki clean of spam and plagiarism. Just for your information near 3500 articles have been cleaned, vs 15000 articles currently published."
  
  
• 2013-12-18 - Wiki Life: Best Practice for Giving Credit (Horizon_Net)
  "During the last months there was a lot of effort to ban article which are one-one-1 textual copies of third party articles."
  
  
• 2013-09-15 - Top Contributor Awards (XAML guy)
  "Having seen all the work this week - new articles, duplicates and pirated content removal, it's been a busy week for all four above, thanks folks!"
  
  
• 2013-08-29 - TechNet Wiki - The Council Strikes Back (Ed Price)
  "5. Spam, Plagiarism, & Article Deletion - Peter Geelen (& Naomi)
  • We're at a good place with this right now, building a strong framework"
    
    
• 2013-08-14 - Wiki Life: What content is not appropriate for our wiki (Horizon_Net)
  "Have you ever noticed how many articles are deleted from the wiki, because they are spam or contain not appropriate content? Types of Articles Not Appropriate for TechNet Wiki will help you identify topics which are good or, on the other side, bad ones."
  
  
• 2013-08-08 - TechNet Wiki Community Council - A New Hope!!!
  One of the changes in the Community Council is, that the existing focus area "Spam and Article Deletion" is extended to plagiarism. Peter Geelen (& Naomi N.) lead this focus area.
  
  
• 2013-07-28 - Top Contributor Awards (XAML guy)
  "sayedissahassan's monthly articles were unfortunately removed as they were plagiarized."
  
  
• 2013-07-19 - Top Contributor Awards (XAML guy)
  "sayedissahassan's articles were unfortunately removed as they were all plagiarized."
  
  
• 2013-07-06 - Top Contributors Awards (XAML guy)
  "sayedissahassan in second place, and leading most new articles for the last month, but most seem just copied in, and may have to be removed :/"
  
  
• 2013-06-23 - Top Contributor Awards (XAML guy)
  "This week's largest document to get some attention is ... although this looks like it's been copied directly from another source ... ."
  
  
• 2012-12-29 - Top Contributor Awards (XAML guy)
  "This tally includes some excellent policing work, removing plagiarized content and spam. ...
  We are all very proud of the reputation of TechNet Wiki, and such plagiarism is not wanted."

See Also

• User Page: Carsten Siemens