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Dishonorable Discharge: Mustapha Azeez
Mustapha Azeez, sometimes known as Azeez Mustapha, used to post large numbers of items in the Company Articles folder at the FPA with links back to FxInstructor.com. I enjoyed reading many of his articles.
In March, I received a complaint that one of Mustapha's articles copied a significant amount of text from an article at SFOMag.com without giving any credit to the original author. I checked, and it was true. I appreciate that the Executive Editor of SFO chose to approach the FPA in a very professional and non-confrontational manner. Under the circumstances, she could have easily assumed that the FPA was actively cooperating with Mustapha's copyright violations.
I removed the offending post and emailed Mustapha about the issue. He promised that none of his other articles had any copied text that he know of. He also said that he would take a break from posting at the FPA and would always bear this great lesson in mind. I allowed his account to remain active and he had not made any new postings since then.
FxInstructor took harsher action against him. As soon as they were notified of the copyright violation, they revoked his posting privileges and removed all of his prior postings from their website.
A few days ago, I got another email from SFO's executive editor. She sent me a copy of an email Mustapha sent out to that freely borrowed text from another author's article on the SFO site without giving proper credit. Now I can't trust than anything Mustapha ever posted at the FPA is 100% original. I don't have time to check each of his old posts to see which ones do or don't have improperly copied material. I've removed all of Mustapha Azeez's posts from public folders and banned his account.
Plagiarism may not seem like a serious crime, but it's one small step down from other forms of intellectual property theft. This wasn't reposting a funny picture found on the web. Mustapha Azeez was presenting another writer's words as his own. By posting this material at the FPA, he made the entire FPA website potentially liable for a copyright violation claim.
Based on his violation of copyright rules both at the FPA and later, Mustapha Azeez is dishonorably discharged from the Forex Peace Army.
Mustapha Azeez, sometimes known as Azeez Mustapha, used to post large numbers of items in the Company Articles folder at the FPA with links back to FxInstructor.com. I enjoyed reading many of his articles.
In March, I received a complaint that one of Mustapha's articles copied a significant amount of text from an article at SFOMag.com without giving any credit to the original author. I checked, and it was true. I appreciate that the Executive Editor of SFO chose to approach the FPA in a very professional and non-confrontational manner. Under the circumstances, she could have easily assumed that the FPA was actively cooperating with Mustapha's copyright violations.
I removed the offending post and emailed Mustapha about the issue. He promised that none of his other articles had any copied text that he know of. He also said that he would take a break from posting at the FPA and would always bear this great lesson in mind. I allowed his account to remain active and he had not made any new postings since then.
FxInstructor took harsher action against him. As soon as they were notified of the copyright violation, they revoked his posting privileges and removed all of his prior postings from their website.
A few days ago, I got another email from SFO's executive editor. She sent me a copy of an email Mustapha sent out to that freely borrowed text from another author's article on the SFO site without giving proper credit. Now I can't trust than anything Mustapha ever posted at the FPA is 100% original. I don't have time to check each of his old posts to see which ones do or don't have improperly copied material. I've removed all of Mustapha Azeez's posts from public folders and banned his account.
Plagiarism may not seem like a serious crime, but it's one small step down from other forms of intellectual property theft. This wasn't reposting a funny picture found on the web. Mustapha Azeez was presenting another writer's words as his own. By posting this material at the FPA, he made the entire FPA website potentially liable for a copyright violation claim.
Based on his violation of copyright rules both at the FPA and later, Mustapha Azeez is dishonorably discharged from the Forex Peace Army.