I would agree with Brad; in this case, a private (arbcom? WMF?) contact to
establish the author's position or assertion there seems at worst harmless.
They will either answer yes, no, or object to answering. If it's yes they can
essentially / publicly anonymously verify by echoing a requested
Reporting the suspicion to the publisher should be enough, I wouldn't
think of that as unethical. You aren't doing immediate harm to the
author; presumably any reasonable publisher would ask the author about
the situation before taking drastic action, giving the author the
opportunity at that time
One possible approach would be to contact the author directly.
Newyorkbrad
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:43 PM, James Heilman wrote:
> Someone has posted a question about WP:OUTING. We are currently dealing
> with a copyright issue ( a textbook has copied liberally from Wikipedia
> without proper
Someone has posted a question about WP:OUTING. We are currently dealing
with a copyright issue ( a textbook has copied liberally from Wikipedia
without proper attribution and the author claiming the work as their own ).
Before we inform the publisher however we need to make sure that the author
of
