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For CP-Staff:
If you want to check the why, the correspondent thread in S&A forum is: Article C# 8 New Features Plagiarised From Microsoft Docs[^]
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Plagiarism and spam are very different things: in your case you copied, pasted, and tweaked code and text so that we (hopefully) didn't notice. Spam is advertising, such as driving to a viagra or "technical support" site.
"Copy'n'paste and forgot the reference" is one thing: but you deliberately changed the pasted text and code so that is wouldn't be identical. And that is plagiarism, no matter how you look at it.
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The email I received says '10 times members have reported your account at CodeProject as "Content has been posted that is spam"'
Anyway, your point is taken. The article is already taken down and I will work on it to completely rewrite it to address plagiarism.
My question is why my profile has been closed. I would like to keep learning and contributing as I have done before.
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Shameel-v2 wrote: I will work on it to completely rewrite it to address plagiarism.
Shameel-v2 wrote: My question is why my profile has been closed.
Because we do not tolerate plagiarism. We - the moderators as a group - write articles, and we know how hard it is. So when somebody comes along, copy'n'pastes stuff that probably took a lot of effort to get right, tweeks it to hide the theft, and claims they wrote it themselves we don't appreciate it.
The account gets closed and the plagiarism removed, that's standard procedure.
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Shameel-v2 wrote: and I will work on it to completely rewrite it to address plagiarism.
That's the point. You should not rewrite things.
You should write them from the scratch.
And to be honest... I "defended" you a bit in the other forum, but seeing your answers, it makes me think you didn't bother to read the CodeProject Plagiarism FAQ[^] as I already told you.
Shameel-v2 wrote: My question is why my profile has been closed
If you had, you would know why
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Yes, and it's staying closed. Sorry, we don't allow plagiarism.
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Chris Maunder
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If you edit the article with CP's editor, by modifying the raw code, you can change the href attribute of the a tag to the right target. Sometimes links are messed with during the submission process.
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Ok, I just did that.
Thanks!
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Nope, I just checked, did a Ctrl-F5 to actually reload the page, and the link does not seem to have changed. You'll have to wait for a member of the staff to have a look at your issue.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Fixed for now. Please don't edit the article till tomorrow since I made the fixed using a beta (undeployed) patch of the code.
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Chris Maunder
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This one... [^]
It shows a black CP error screen and says "Invalid characters in path" when I click the link in the My Articles page
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modified 8-Oct-19 15:13pm.
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Neither I can see it.
Black screen with hamsters in "demolition mode" and same error message.
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Found the issue. Just testing and will deploy soon
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Chris Maunder
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Or something.
I had two accounts (oops). I deleted the other one clicked through all the warnings and killed it with fire.
But when I tried to change the email of this account to the other email, it says I can't. Sad face.
Is there something else I need to do? I will no longer have the current email on this account in a matter of days, so need it to be associated with my other email.
Dan
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After killing your account, pouring salt on the bones and destroying by fire, there's still a small window of opportunity to recover that account, so its email isn't clear for another couple of weeks.
Email me the email you want to reclaim and the email you currently use and I'll clean it up.
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Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: After killing your account, pouring salt on the bones and destroying by fire, there's still a small window of opportunity to
Someone likes Supernatural?  
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Exactly!
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Chris Maunder
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Well, I tried. The email didn't work:
Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups:
<chris' email="" address=""> Your message wasn't delivered due to a permission or security issue. It may have been rejected by a moderator, the address may only accept e-mail from certain senders, or another restriction may be preventing delivery.
The following organization rejected your message: aspmx.l.google.com.
Diagnostic information for administrators:
Generating server: mail.notifications.codeproject.com
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You tried chris@codeproject.com?
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Chris Maunder
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Currently, the following advisory text is not visually separated from the article content:
Theoretically, it would be possible for a spammer to add this text to the top of their article to try to get it past the moderators. It would only involve adding a single class to a paragraph at the top of their article.
It's currently the equivalent of adding "This message is from a trusted sender, and definitely not spam!" to the top of an email message. Or displaying a "100% secure" message next to a padlock image on an HTTP site.
Ideally, this message should be displayed in an area of the page which the author cannot control.
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Richard Deeming wrote: Ideally, this message should be displayed in an area of the page which the author cannot control.
And the editorial notes too, please
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I'll add a clear marker to differentiate non-sponsored from sponsored.
The issue is that no matter what we do, new and casual readers will still be potentially misled by anything posted within an article. We can have an "official sponsored article" badge and all that, but unless a reader has actually seen that in action they won't know what to look for.
The best defence here is you guys: you spot something wrong, you report and nuke. You're way better at this, collectively, than we or our systems can ever be.
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Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: new and casual readers will still be potentially misled
But new and casual readers aren't likely to be looking at articles in the moderation queue. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Sponsored or promoted items never appear in the moderation queue.
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Chris Maunder
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