The One Ring.net Blog Talk Radio
on February 27th, 2010I’ll be talking in public over here.
Sunday March 14th, 2PM EASTERN: Guests include American comic book writer and artist Colleen Doran (A Distant Soil) www.colleendoran.com
Doran broke into the comic book industry when still a teenager, in the 1980s…The character Thessaly in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman is based on Doran, and she illustrated two issues of that series (#20 and #34) in the early 1990s.
She has attended multiple World Science Fiction Conventions, San Diego Comic Cons, The Singapore Writers Festival, and many The Lord of the Rings conventions including Ring*Con, ELF, and ORC. She is also featured in the films Ringers (a documentary about The Lord of the Rings fans), Scenes From the Small Press: Colleen Doran by Rich Henn, and Sex, Lies and Superheroes.
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I have no idea why this bio keeps cropping up in various media whatevers.
Is this some Wikipedia thing? Dunno.
I’ve seen it all over the net, and it’s kind of funny.
It keeps coming back because people are lazy and just copypasta the first site Google feeds them.
Just a guess
I’m pretty sure it was pinched wholesale from a very old version of my website, and just got passed around the internet. It doesn’t appear to have been updated in about 5 years.
You don’t want to go to the trouble of updating your Wikipedia entry yourself?
Yeah, the cut-and-paste rule is pretty much standard. People don’t usually go to the trouble of contacting the artist or writer in order to update information for whatever the event may be. Well, some people. I try to be current when touting someone.
I couldn’t even if I wanted to. I do not have a unique IP, and I can’t go onto a lot of websites or post because someone uses the same IP for spam.
I was just trying to block an IP tonight for spam, and got complaints from legit readers that they could not get to my site. So, I had to unblock it.
Curse spam.
Ah! I hadn’t thought of that, though it doesn’t surprise me. I know that my broadband card for my laptop ends up randomizing the IP (more because someone’s IP tracker indicates I “sign in” from wildly divergent places). It does make blocking spammers more difficult, it’s true.
I tried to post a correction in a post about a Victorian-era actress. I couldn’t even sign on.
Yes, it is based select paragraphs from the Wikipedia page.
Wikipedia does have more current information but it was not used.
plagiarism, anyone?
LOL!
Since the Wikipedia page is posted without copyright attribution, anyone who goes there can use it.
I don’t think people using the bio are trying to claim authorship.
So, copyright violation, yes. But I don’t care. I can write a better bio.
Plagiarism, no.
But that Tolkien dude totally pinched The Lord of the Rings from the Sword of Shannara.
