Article Writing

5-Mar-15 0:35

this[^] be choosen for the contest? it is way too low quality to be even published as a tip.

I think it would be a good idea to have some kind of confirmation to include a post in the contests, additionaly to the auto selection.

M.D.V.

If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Sean Ewington5-Mar-15 1:58

5-Mar-15 1:58

Apologies, is this the correct link?

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Nelek5-Mar-15 6:37

5-Mar-15 6:37

Yes... it is. Why?

M.D.V.

Sean Ewington5-Mar-15 6:52

5-Mar-15 6:52

For some reason the link went to a weird place earlier.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Nelek6-Mar-15 8:29

6-Mar-15 8:29

did you publish it? Confused | :confused:

M.D.V.

Keith Barrow5-Mar-15 2:35

Keith Barrow

5-Mar-15 2:35

Did you go here[^], then select "Best whatever article of 2015" by an chance?
Currently each of these is showing the latest articles.

KeithBarrow.net[^] - It might not be very good, but at least it is free!

Nelek5-Mar-15 6:38

5-Mar-15 6:38

????

M.D.V.

Keith Barrow5-Mar-15 22:08

Keith Barrow

5-Mar-15 22:08

If you follow the links to, for example, "Best c# of January 2015" I see a list of "Latest Articles"(which seems wrong) - these include completely un-rated articles. I thought you might have picked up the article from there.

KeithBarrow.net[^] - It might not be very good, but at least it is free!

Nelek6-Mar-15 8:29

6-Mar-15 8:29

nope, it was in moderation queue and I sarw the first sentence "This article is an entry in our Microsoft Azure IoT Contest. Articles in this section are not required to be full articles so care should be taken when voting."

M.D.V.

Sean Ewington5-Mar-15 4:12

5-Mar-15 4:12

I think I figured out which entry you are talking about. These do not have to be articles in the traditional sense, and the entrants have until the end of the month to fix up their articles.

I know it's a little painful and a change from the ordinary, but I'd ask you to bear with us. Sometimes some pretty cool things / authors grow from contests like this.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Nelek5-Mar-15 6:39

Article was been published as tip ?

5-Mar-15 6:39

Sean Ewington wrote:
Sometimes some pretty cool things / authors grow from contests like this

This is definitively not the case Poke tongue | ;-P

M.D.V.

DiponRoy4-Mar-15 8:17

DiponRoy

4-Mar-15 8:17

Last time i made a post as an article, but it was been published as a tip with out informing me.

an editor asked me if would i considered it as a tip.
But i replayed "Not actually. Please help me out why I should post it as a tip rather than an article"

although it was not considered.
Table Generation Finder For Rotational Database In SQL Server[^]

Sean Ewington4-Mar-15 8:25

4-Mar-15 8:25

Tips are generally more straight-forward, (sometimes) how-to pieces. Articles are usually exhaustive educational items.

We definitely want the author to be happy, but part that will also deal with the response of the members. I promise you a post that members will generally view as a "Tip" that gets posted as an article will receive a number of downvotes and messages saying, "This should be a tip. Why is this not a tip?"

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

DiponRoy4-Mar-15 8:34

DiponRoy

4-Mar-15 8:34

The day before that i also posted
String Join or Split in SQL Server[^]

some member was saying about terms and conditions. How i was breaking any terms i really don't know.
help me out with it too.

Pete O'Hanlon4-Mar-15 8:53

4-Mar-15 8:53

This one's simple. You posted someone else's copyrighted work here on CodeProject. This is plagiarism, and this is something that we do not allow. We expect you to come up with the content, rather than just copying someone else's work. That is why the article was closed.

DiponRoy4-Mar-15 9:43

DiponRoy

4-Mar-15 9:43

Yes that is my question, if I would wanted to claim the code why I would provide the links which helped me out? Why would I claim other ones work?

And I thought I would help others if he get this two at a same place

What wrong I did!!!

Pete O'Hanlon4-Mar-15 9:46

4-Mar-15 9:46

By publishing their work here, that's plagiarism. If, instead, you'd just linked out to them then that would have been different. To put it another way - imagine that you had managed to get the sourcecode for Windows. It's fine for you to post a link to Microsoft for people to get a legitimate copy of Windows from them. It's wrong for you to provide the code for them on the grounds that you're just putting it into one place for them.

DiponRoy4-Mar-15 10:16

DiponRoy

4-Mar-15 10:16

Ok its making some sciences

But let’s say I studied few links before I post an articles. Is it like from now I will not be able to add those links at my post?

It is important because I am working on few articles a want to post them. I was not write post in code project for last 6-7 months. I started this month and facing that sort of things.

Pete O'Hanlon4-Mar-15 10:41

4-Mar-15 10:41

A simple rule to follow. In general, if the words or the code belong to someone else then you can't use them.

Pete O'Hanlon4-Mar-15 8:51

4-Mar-15 8:51

If you remove the large images and the code dump from the prose, what are you left with? Are you educated as to the thought processes that have gone into this, or is it a recipe for someone else to follow. If you come away knowing what design decisions were made and what trade offs have been considered, then it's definitely an article. If all you come away knowing is what the code actually looks like, then it's a tip. You can argue all you like but if you want people to rate your article based on its content then it makes sense not to give them a distraction to downvote it on.

DiponRoy4-Mar-15 10:19

DiponRoy

4-Mar-15 10:19

Those large images was been used to make more seance. Not the size of the post.

An indicator image can help you out ... writing less words and making more seance D'Oh! | :doh:

Pete O'Hanlon4-Mar-15 10:24

4-Mar-15 10:24

You misunderstand. If you take out the images, there's not a lot left. There's certainly no indication of the thought processes and the decisions that went into it. That's why it's a tip. Don't get hung up on thinking about the title, the fact that you posted a tip is a good thing. Not everything has to be a fully fledged article - a lot of my earlier articles would be classed as tips now but because the tip system wasn't in place then, they are articles. It's only the larger pieces of work that I would class as an article now.

Nelek5-Mar-15 0:40