h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Sociable, please look at <./>HouseRules-Copyright</.>. That should tell you all you need to know. Especially the passage that reads:

"Before you consider putting anything onto a BBC community site or messageboard that you haven't created yourself, you should assume that you don't have the right to do it. This is by far the easiest solution."

We're perfectly willing to help you write a good article. We are neither willing to be insulted by you nor to help you justify breaking the rules. And those rules are stricter, not laxer, when you're writing an entry intended for the Edited Guide.

The Writing-Guidelines state that anything you submit must be your own work, so by submitting something, you implicitly state that this is so. So having copied sections of other people's work in there is, yes, plagiarism.

Especially as you state that "individual sections actually come from other sources too but I have long since lost track of where or what they were now" - meaning you made no attempt to even mark them as not your own work.

OK this is getting serious and so will be making an official complaint and possibly even bringing an action for defamation.

Riiiight. Now you're just being silly.

I give up trying to help you - we've showed you the <./>House-Rules</.> and Writing-Guidelines repeatedly, and you choose to ignore them. Ergo, your piece will not be making it into the Edited Guide, and I see no reason to waste further time on it.

How about a "thanks for your help so far"? No, didn't think so. You'd rather just bleat that you're hard done by. And I don't have to listen to it. I'll do what I should've done long ago, which is unsubscribe from this thread.

If you write something suitable and submit it to Peer Review, I'd be quite willing to review it, of course, as is my job as a Scout. Until then, good luck and goodbye.

Formal complaint lodged so this will be my final post too.