Where'd you get that verbage?
Note, as of 1/26/11 the company rewrote their Hawaii flag blog to not be plagiarised.
I’ll admit to not being the best writer there is out there on blogs. However, there is nothing I hate more than people who don’t write their own blogs, and worst of all, steal other people’s writing off the web to do so!
Todays shame comes from a companys blog, that specializes in no other than flags! That blog, belongs to the company Carrot-Top Industries.
The example I will use today, their latest post about the Flag of Hawaii. As of 1/25/12 the following is what is taking place (they may have changed it in shame – one can hope). If you are checking out their blog, you will notice they even left in the [1] form the wiki notes! That’s just lazy plagiarism right there!
So what’s stolen? Well, every line of it.
And here comes the original…
WIKIPEDIA’S BLURB ON HAWAII FLAG: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hawaii)
On January 18, 1778 Captain James Cook and his crew, while attempting to discover the Northwest Passage between Alaska and Asia, were surprised to find the Hawaiian islands so far north in the Pacific.[1] He named them the “Sandwich Islands”. After the discovery by Cook, other Europeans and Americans came to the Sandwich Islands.
It is said by several that the Spanish made it two centuries before. Juan de Gaitan is said to have arrived to Hawaii in 1555. There are spanish maps of the era in which islands are shown in Hawaii latitude, but 10° further east. The first sea chart that would prove this is dated 1551, signed by Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian and French cartographers, which it is shown an archipelago located at points close to the place Hawaii occupies on the globe.
The islands were united under a single ruler, Kamehameha I, for the first time in 1810 with the help of foreign weapons and advisors.
SECOND HALF WAS RIPPED FROM ANOTHER WEBSITE: (http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hhl/hhl25.htm)
The Jack was retained to show the king’s friendship for England. The stripes were said to represent the red, white and blue of the American flag. They were eight in number, to represent the eight principal islands of the group. It was a combination of Hawaiian with European and American interests.
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If you’re going to claim that nobody knows more about flags than you do, perhaps you shouldn’t steal your company blog post about flags from other people. And worse, from wiki!
