Talk:Eonycteris

Copyvio?

This looks like it was lifted directly from a field report. It doesn't appear to be online, but I suspect it's word for word from somewhere. --Aranae 02:34, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

It does look suspicious. Someone asked the editor (Tabdulla) who submitted this about it, but I don't see a response. On the other hand, a few of his articles cite papers by an "M.T. Abdullah", so perhaps it is his own work. —Veyklevar 23:26, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

please delete the content on Eonycteris, which is part of our unpublished materials with references to previous authors. --Tabdulla 05:45, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

We don't want to delete your contributions. We like your contributions. We just want you to tell us if you have the rights to publish it here or not, so that we don't get in trouble with copyright law. —Veyklevar 10:55, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

If it is copyvio I cant find it anywhere on the internet. It may have been copied from a journal though. --Tobes ^(talk) 15:44, 30 June 2006 (UTC).

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Thanks all of you for your critical comments and efforts to investigate if i've had copied or taken from somewhere. Yes those are real data that should be my IPR but is given free to the world community. For many years I had legally caught and studied various animals e.g. elephants, rhinoceros, deer, primates, rodents, chiroptera and insectivora in USA, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. My students and I had recorded all those real ecological, morphometric and behavioural data as well as we processed tissues in our primitive jungle lab to determine their mtDNA sequences and had uploaded about 200 real gene sequence data into NCBI. We had published in journals and presented papers in various conferences. You could google or google scholar MT Abdullah and tell me if this writer is a fake one.

Previously, I had communicated with some PhDs on my scientific ideas who eventually copied or lifted my ideas but they were never once being rigorously challenged by either their supervisors, editors, examiners or referees. There're also well known "747 flying scientists" who work in respected institution such as IUCN, which i'm having memberships in 3 specialist groups, who asked me serious scientific questions and later published or presented the data acquired from me without setting their feet in my research sites, ranging from Chiengmai in Thailand to Pontianak in Indonesian Borneo. Yet those respected arm-chair biologists were never being rigorously challenged by their peers for stealing my data or ideas.

I'm very very sick and tired to answer similar questions which I first heard in 1977, where were you guys back then? However, I'm still very grateful for your comments and for being able to contribute in a humane manner to this wiki project. --Tabdulla 21:50, 11 October 2006 (UTC)