Article Theft
Well, it looks like I have fallen prey to the article theft issue too.
Get this, it was an article on integrity in online communications.
The offender appears to be urudunet. Think perhaps it is an african location?
So, I have the entire article word for word without my resource box showing up on this network that appears to spend its time posting Ezine articles and translating them into many different languages. Contact me link on their site doesn't connect to anything relevant.
Here is the E-Zine policy covering this:
I found one of my articles reused without proper credit or links, what do I do?
In instances like these, the first course of action we recommend is that you contact the owner/webmaster of the site and ask them to fix the oversight.
More times than not this will accomplish the end result you are looking for as most people just need to be informed.
If after you contact them and no action has been taken within 48 hours, contact the site's ISP/Host and ask them to enforce their AUP (Acceptable Use Policy).
So, how do I identify the ISP/Host of this site?
Silly me, I have SEOquake. I just used the whois feature on the toolbar and found out everything I needed to know. Apparently the user is actually in Spain. I'll see if he responds to my request.
Update: I contacted the author of the site he was quite responsive and once we accurately identified the article in question he removed it. Too bad, I was hoping he would just add the references. I could use the link love. He said that his site and the hundreds of others that he runs are all automated so apparently this is a common thing.