[INDOLOGY] Indology and plagiarism: specify stance in order to fortify "brand name" (and conclude lengthy threads)

[Jan E.M. Houben]

Indology and plagiarism

Apart from borderline cases there are also cases of undeniable massive
plagiarism.
One case was discussed long ago by Roy Andrew Miller (JAOS 115.2 [1995]:
343-344), and
a new episode in the same case history was discussed eight years later, now
twelve years
ago, by me (AS/EA 57.1 [2003] p 163, author's copy academia.edu/7196478/ p
55).
>From a quick online search I infer that the publication based on massive
plagiarizing is apparently still for sale and present in university
libraries.
Some similarities with the current case under discussion, except, I hope,
quantitatively:
R Diekstra, till 1997 prof of psychology at Univ of Leiden: those who
discovered textual borrowings which were not or very incompletely
acknowledged were aggressively attacked by adherents of their favourite
public intellectual Diekstra, his sources were (page after page) from
sources relatively unknown to his target public (dutch readers on
psychotherapy), he claimed to be working in haste for a higher aim (helping
those needing psychotherapy).
http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9704/fn9704.html

This could be a suitable occasion for the Indology List, since 2001 the
ONLY ONLINE
FORUM IN THE WORLD specializing in academic exchange for bona fide
scholars, "east"
and "west", in Indology and classical South Asia studies, to give a
stronger profile
to Indology's "brand name".

Would there be any harm if the current dvārapālas of the Indology List
specify
"Indology"'s position on plagiarism in the Guidelines, for instance that
the hypothetic case of plagiarizing (at least if it is massive?) leads to
cancellation of full membership (should have been self-evident but perhaps
it is not), and that emphatic encouragement and condoning of plagiarism
leads to first a warning next to suspension of full membership?
Pro-plagiarists and pro-plagiarism
leniency may feel irritated through such explicit stance but 95% others
would either welcome it or consider it self-evident.

This move could liberate bandwidth of the List for more useful and
interesting topics and
issues.

Jan Houben






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