Dave Saunders writes:

This is great news for those of us who work hard to develop unique content!

-Dave

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Olena Gill writes:

“Whenever an author attempts to submit a duplicate title article …”

What I have difficulty with is that as I am writing my article complete with creating a snappy, and what I think of as unique, title … how do I know that someone hasn’t thought of something simiarly creative? The above statement already assumes that an author is aware of the duplicate. The big question is then, us authentic authors who do this because we love to write, etc. how do we know for sure if our titles will end up being duplicated? The answer I believe, that in the moment we are creating and then submitting, we don’t. We take our chance. And if a title gets submitted that ends up being duplicated, I would see this as abusive ONLY if there was conscious awareness on the part of the duplicator that were ‘taking’ someone else’s title. It’s like stealing where you know its wrong but you do it anyway.

My problem lies in the scenario multitude of authors who sit here like me typing away, creating things, thinking we have something unique, submit it and then take our chance that someone else’ hasn’t thought about it. How can one screen that? I don’t know. I think it’s very difficult.

Anyway, just my random thoughts on this.

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Mike Valentine writes:

Also great news for creativity! Many article titles I’ve seen are yawn inducing and could use a jolt of innovation juice. I know this is not a fiction list in general, but authors need to put some thought into headlines (titles) to get reader interest as well.

Good move! Maybe it will encourage submissions to get more creative overall in order to match the better titles. ;-)

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Sallie Goetsch writes:

As long as there’s an automatic notification that the title is a duplicate, I don’t have a problem with the requirement. (Computer databases are less forgiving than either copyright laws, which don’t allow the copyrighting of titles, or trademark laws, which allow for the use of the same name if it refers to a different class of goods or services.)

But, Christopher–you’re an editor. Why are you forming the plural of “title” using an apostrophe?

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Mud Knight writes:

Sorry’s, I have’s the habit’s of adding too many’s apostrophe’s where they’s don’ts belong. ;-)

Technically, I’m not an editor… or at least our Associate Editors wouldn’t call me an editor.

When I wrote my last book, my editor at John Wiley & Son’s would call me the “comma kazi”… but now, I’m the “apostrophe adder where they don’t belonger!”

Good thing our editors read my blog posts to correct me when wrong. You just happened to catch me before they did.

-Chris

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kundan upadhyaya writes:

This is wonderful news for all the dedicated writers, because any serious author will like his articles to be remain unique in all respects. This is a very good move taken by EzineArticles.com, and i think this should have been implemented earlier.

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Lance Winslow writes:

I think people can live with this? When it kicks it back, well simply write a different title. That is easy enough. What about all the old Articles? Someone has to go and modify all those titles. Yuk. Well, if someone wants their title over mine, simply change mine, I am cool with it.

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Roger Carr writes:

Original articles deserve original titles. If I have created a title that someone else is already using, I would prefer to change my title. I would like to see the problem identified automatically when the article is being submitted (rather than rejecting it during the reveiew process).

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Carol Bentley (UK) writes:

I think any discerning article writer will applaud your decision, as I do. Like Roger Carr, it would be more helpful if the duplication could be notified to us before the review stage.

How are you going to de-duplicate the existing articles? Will we get a note telling us which of our articles are causing problems? I’m guessing the first person that used the article title will be able to keep the original?

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Jeff Sneeringer writes:

How can we find out if our title is original?

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Marc, Product Marketing Manager writes:

You will receive a notice during the submission process that the title you’ve selected already exists. You then have the option to change it if you choose.

January 21, 2011 at 4:51 PM

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