The Albion Chronicles-sites about England

Subject: RE: The Albion Chronicles-sites about England
From: RTim
Date: 06 Jan 07 - 02:58 PM

This is the worst web page I have EVER tried to visit! I have NEVER got to a content page as you are bombarded with pop-ups!

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: The Albion Chronicles-sites about England
From: GUEST,Pest Of A Guest
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 02:54 PM

It seems to me that nothing on this thread makes much sense, well it does, in a rather nasty, spiteful and childish way. I was always under the impression that flaming an individual or individuals was a banning offence, it appears I was wrong. Is this a sign of our times? If it is I hold little hope for the future

Subject: RE: The Albion Chronicles-sites about England
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 02:56 PM

Hi Lizzie! Wondered where you'd got to...

Subject: RE: The Albion Chronicles-sites about England
From: GUEST,Albion Fart
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 03:04 AM

Whilst browsing this website last night, something began to bother me. I looked at the writing on the opening page, which is pretty garbled, then looked at the writing on various pages, like the biographies of Thomas Hardy and Judi Dench and the articles about some places, which was all very articulate and grammatically correct. I started to smell a rat. So I did that thing that you do when you're testing for plagiarism: I copied and pasted a couple of passages, in inverted commas, into Google. Lo and behold - whole articles came up as existing elsewhere (and presumably these are the sources for the material in The Albion Chronicles). Bear in mind that these same articles on the Albion Chronicles contain no attributions at all, so the implication is that the authors of that site have written them. Indeed, I assumed that the authors of the site had written them, until it became clear that this was far from the truth.

Some articles, like the Thomas Hardy, are copied and pasted completely from another site. Others, like the one about Coggeshall and Judi Dench, are a paragraph here and there from several sites, including the BBC!

This is really bad practice. If a kid at school did it, they'd be facing exclusion for plagiarism. If you copy something that you have not written, you must both gain the permission of the person who HAS written it, and also credit them for their work.

I thought this would be pretty obvious to anybody, but the owners of the site might like to review their practice before they find themselves in some serious trouble. :0)

Subject: RE: The Albion Chronicles-sites about England
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 03:39 AM

It looks as if it might be quiteinteresting although a bit hard to find things on - and the !"£$%^&*( popups are a nuisance!

Subject: RE: The Albion Chronicles-sites about England
From: Alec
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 03:52 AM

I'm pleased that was not just my experience Richard.
Though I am intending to upgrade to Broadband in the near future,as a dial-up user I gave up waiting for the slow loading time necesitated by somebody's attempts to interest me in Heidi Klum wallpaper.
I might try again once I have Broadband,but I would say to anybody on Dial-up that they might like to consider this site "one to avoid".

Subject: RE: The Albion Chronicles-sites about England
From: GUEST,Albion Fart
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 04:11 AM

"Heidi Klum wallpaper"

Ah, the heart of Albion.

Subject: RE: The Albion Chronicles-sites about England
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 11:58 AM

Interesting that no one has answered the charges on this thread...I'd have thought there would be a robust defense of "dear Sam" and his stolen goods...

Subject: RE: The Albion Chronicles-sites about England
From: GUEST,Chris Murray
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 12:20 PM

The owners of the site are Sam Reynolds and our own Lizzie Cornish.

Subject: RE: The Albion Chronicles-sites about England
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 01:20 PM

CM, you forgot your throwing up emoticon, © Chris Murray.
Essential if you are foolish enough to venture into the floaty pink-tinged Sam'n'Lizzie pages.