Scottish
Mining Website
Please note, we reserve the right to list
any examples where the hard work of the volunteers of this site
is being passed off as the work of others.
Ghillie Mòr a website offering
personalised tours and other tartan themed items. The archive section is
particularly interesting and presents: "An online archive of items of
potential interest to those interested in Scottish history, heritage, culture,
and customs - and the military. The items available online here will have been
originally created by David Anson for a variety
of purposes and are made accessible in the hope others might find them of
interest or value: Some as a response to a question from someone on one his
tours, at one of his illustrated talks, at an event where he has been
guest-speaker, or simply in passing. Some may have been written during his time
as an undergraduate, and Some will be the product of personal projects. As such,
although headed 'Archives', it is very much a work in progress an items will
continue to be written and added; its range of subject matter limited only by
the questions posed to David, papers required of him as part of his university
studies, and his insatiable eclectic curiosity! A significant benefit of
including these works here is that they can be hyperlinked to further expand
information on the subjects they cover. "
I'm surprised David didn't
apply the rules on plagiarism he would have learned during his university
studies to his piece on the
Mauricewood disaster.
I would question whether you should trust a tour guide who can't even be
bothered to go out and take his own photographs?
Parish of Cambusnethan website
-9 May 2009
- Extracts from our transcription of the 1910 Housing Conditions
of Miners have been posted on
this
site without any acknowledgement of the source. These are
easily recognisable by the format, layout and additional sections
which do not form part of the original manuscript.
Blantyre Website
- 8 March 2009 - For the
second time
this
website has republished extracts from our site without acknowledgement.
They also continue to use images from the site as part of their
own banners. Interestingly not one of these picture has the slightest
relation to Blantyre, or even the surrounding area. (It's particularly strange that their
newly produced "Blantyre collage" boasts images of
miner's rows in Stirlingshire and a pit headgear from Summerlee
museum?!)
Kelty Development Trust - 14 Aug 2008.
This site is using jpeg images directly downloaded from our site.
Of course, if it's just a huge coincidence that their selection
of images, all file names and image dimension are identical,
then we apologise without reservation.
Seath Family Website - May 2007 - despite
contacting this site, our transcription of Barrowmans Glossary
of Mining Terms is still published on
this
site. A quick tip for anyone looking to copy material - don't
be so stupid as to print to PDF and leave the links to the site
you're copying from in place
Durham Mining Museum Site - 3 June 2006
- It has recently been brought to our attention that some of
the content of this website, including original lists compiled
by the site authors, have been copied verbatim and republished
by the Durham Mining Museum site. No permission was sought and
the effort of the volunteers who completed the work has not been
credited. We would like to state that we consider their actions
completely unacceptable.* After we contected them, some content
was removed or unlinked but much remains and no response was
received from the site.(*We would like to thank them
them, however, for inadvertently pointing out the mistake in
our Udston list (which bizarrely they have attributed to the
1878 Barrwood disaster). We have now amended the age of John
Nelson from 4 to the correct 14)