How to know you've arrived in fandom...

So, today started well. Was on my way to a breakfast seminar when someone ran into the back of my car. I was stationary, waiting for the lights to change, and apparently she had her head in the clouds. Thankfully no one was hurt, and there doesn't appear to be any damage to either car - not even a scratch on my bumper - but it didn't half give me a shock.

Then I come home and find an e-mail informing that I've been plagiarised. Yep. Someone took my story, Silence (which was written in 2001 or 2002 - in any case, it was nominated for an SG Fan Award for Best Story in 2002) and filed the numbers off, reposting it as a Torchwood fic.

I only read the first couple of paragraphs - I couldn't bear to read any more even though I'm not particularly precious - and it is literally a word for word copy/paste job from what I can see.

Just in case she deletes it now that I've posted, I've saved it to my hard drive and here's a comparison of the first few paras of the two:

( My story )

( Her story )

Yep. The bold bits were written by yours truly. And I have erred on the side of caution - the only things bolded should be direct lifts. I haven't bolded anything that's paraphrased rather than word for word, even though in many cases there's very little difference.

Honestly. What's the point in ripping off someone else? Apart from anything else, every single complimentary comment must ring hollow and it's not like you can tell anyone who says they didn't like it that that's okay. You didn't bloody write it!

ETA: And, lo, she hath deleted her LJ. Because that's the sign of a clear conscience.

ETA2: But, lo, because I am an ex-archivist and therefore sneaky as a sneaky thing, I have the html page and lots of lovely screencaps:

http://www.alyse.info/plagiarism/plagiarism1.jpg
http://www.alyse.info/plagiarism/plagiarism2.jpg
http://www.alyse.info/plagiarism/plagiarism3.jpg
http://www.alyse.info/plagiarism/plagiarism4.jpg
http://www.alyse.info/plagiarism/plagiarism5.jpg
http://www.alyse.info/plagiarism/plagiarism6.jpg
http://www.alyse.info/plagiarism/plagiarism7.jpg
http://www.alyse.info/plagiarism/plagiarism8.jpg
http://www.alyse.info/plagiarism/plagiarism9.jpg
http://www.alyse.info/plagiarism/plagiarism10.jpg
http://www.alyse.info/plagiarism/plagiarism11.jpg
http://www.alyse.info/plagiarism/plagiarism12.jpg

ETA3: From ljseek: the cached version of the post and a list of places that linked to it.

And in other, completely unrelated news...

Okay, it's not unrelated. It is completely related to my previous post here.

The stop_plagiarism post is here. In the comments to the post, spiralleds has put together a list of all of the fics that wickedplotbunny 'wrote' together with their correct attribution where it's known. However, there are still a number of fics where the correct author (and given how many fics she's ripped off, it's looking less and less likely that she's written anything herself) has yet to be identified.

If anyone thinks that they can help, could you go and have a poke around and see if you can recognise anything, please? Maybe pass the word on to people who wrote in SG-1 and may be at risk of having been plagiarised if you're so inclined?

Thank you!