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Posted in Uncategorized | August 27th, 2011

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What do you do when you find the exact same article posted on different sites with different authors claimed?

By Charles Hopkins

http://www.ezilon.com/articles/articles/5256/1/Five-Tips-to-Stop-Getting-Fat-and-Reduce-Weight

By Robert Barr

http://www.essentialgardenguide.com/gardening-articles/Article/Five-Tips-To-Stop-Getting-Fat-/640

By Zack

http://thefallenangel.co.za/JOOMLA/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25

By Kevin (posted on other sites as by Kevin Sinclair)

http://my-personal-growth.com/wellness/guys-five-tips-to-stop-getting-fat

Follow proper MLA citation guidelines (see link below). It’s going to require a date the page was created, so pick a site with the date on it (the Charles Hopkins one, for example: 5/25/2007). So long as the information is credible, and you found it on that particular website, it isn’t your fault if the supposed author plagiarized. Pick the most credible looking site with a date on it and you should be set.
In school-level research, it isn’t necessarily relevant who wrote it first, just that the information is useful and the person you found it from is given credit. If you happened to be the original author, then yes you would want to get your credit. But you aren’t that original author, so don’t let it concern you (and if you’re still concerned, pick the one with the earliest date…which is the Charles Hopkins one).