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Here's an interesting article that I discovered quite by chance:
Siddiqui, S. and Agarwal, K., "The Consumer's Purchase Decision Process: A Theoretical Framework,” International Journal of Science Technology and Management, Vol. 6, No. 6, 2017, pp 361-367
Link: http://www.ijstm.com/images/short_pdf/1498205169_IIMT_335_ijstm.pdf
The published article bears more than a passing similarity to the Wikipedia article on Consumer Behaviour - it shows identical prose, identical structure and even the use of identical graphics (figures and tables). The Wikipedia article was completely overhauled in October - November, 2016 but this academic paper was published in June, 2017. These two academics, Sadaf Siddiqui, a research student in the Faculty of Commerce at the Sri Venkateshwara University in Gajraula, India and Dr Kirti Agarwal, a Faculty member of the ITERC College Group, India paid US$100 to have this article published under their names. And, it took two authors to plagiarise the Wikipedia article. It's a shame that neither of the authors actually contributed to the writing of the Wikipedia article on which their publication is based. BronHiggs ( talk) 08:34, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
Every article that's even remotely related and hyperlinked in the intro (e.g. this one) is written in American English. Not sure what's up with this one, but they really ought be standardised. 2601:240:CC08:7780:8D4A:91FD:3A1E:A2A ( talk) 17:17, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
This article had 90+ outgoing links and 1, 141 incoming links. Yet apparently, it is so poorly integrated into the Wikipedia Encyclopedia that it warrants a "Underlinked" tag at the top of the article. I have added an additional 20-30 links so that the total number of outgoing links exceeds 110. (The tool, WMlabs records links from this page as 261 after the new links were added, but my manual count, which excluded ISBNs and Book titles was a lower estimaate.) Normally, I am reluctant to link to sub-standard articles in the marketing area. But since the issue of linking has become an issue, then I have made an exception and linked to some very low level articles simply to get the total number of links up a bit. Does anyone know how many links should be present in an article before it can be considered satisfactory, and at what point does an article run into problems with overlinking? BronHiggs ( talk) 07:40, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Here's an interesting article that I discovered quite by chance:
Siddiqui, S. and Agarwal, K., "The Consumer's Purchase Decision Process: A Theoretical Framework,” International Journal of Science Technology and Management, Vol. 6, No. 6, 2017, pp 361-367
Link: http://www.ijstm.com/images/short_pdf/1498205169_IIMT_335_ijstm.pdf
The published article bears more than a passing similarity to the Wikipedia article on Consumer Behaviour - it shows identical prose, identical structure and even the use of identical graphics (figures and tables). The Wikipedia article was completely overhauled in October - November, 2016 but this academic paper was published in June, 2017. These two academics, Sadaf Siddiqui, a research student in the Faculty of Commerce at the Sri Venkateshwara University in Gajraula, India and Dr Kirti Agarwal, a Faculty member of the ITERC College Group, India paid US$100 to have this article published under their names. And, it took two authors to plagiarise the Wikipedia article. It's a shame that neither of the authors actually contributed to the writing of the Wikipedia article on which their publication is based. BronHiggs ( talk) 08:34, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
Every article that's even remotely related and hyperlinked in the intro (e.g. this one) is written in American English. Not sure what's up with this one, but they really ought be standardised. 2601:240:CC08:7780:8D4A:91FD:3A1E:A2A ( talk) 17:17, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
This article had 90+ outgoing links and 1, 141 incoming links. Yet apparently, it is so poorly integrated into the Wikipedia Encyclopedia that it warrants a "Underlinked" tag at the top of the article. I have added an additional 20-30 links so that the total number of outgoing links exceeds 110. (The tool, WMlabs records links from this page as 261 after the new links were added, but my manual count, which excluded ISBNs and Book titles was a lower estimaate.) Normally, I am reluctant to link to sub-standard articles in the marketing area. But since the issue of linking has become an issue, then I have made an exception and linked to some very low level articles simply to get the total number of links up a bit. Does anyone know how many links should be present in an article before it can be considered satisfactory, and at what point does an article run into problems with overlinking? BronHiggs ( talk) 07:40, 11 October 2018 (UTC)