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Forum etiquette #2

Forum etiquette #2

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That depends.

Plagiarism is a serious accusation. Borrowing ideas and thoughts from another, and paraphrasing to expound on those ideas and thoughts, isn't plagiarism unless one uses direct quotes and copy/pastes from copyrighted material.

At least that's how I understand it.

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It demonstrate a lack of basic training on the part of the perpetrator. He has been doing that for years. Whats new?

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You may as well condemn all religions that sprout from the Bible, JW's., Mormons, etc.

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Originally posted by whodey
You may as well condemn all religions that sprout from the Bible, JW's., Mormons, etc.
I can live with that.

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It depends on the 'rewording' and the 'credit taking'.
Do you credit each and every person that influence your current religious beliefs? Have you ever credited Martin Luther in one of your posts?
If sonship is saying 'I came up with this and its MY ministry' then you may have a case. But if he is merely preaching christianity then he isn't necessarily taking credit at all as it is implicit that the belief system he is promoting is from third parties.

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Originally posted by twhitehead
It depends on the 'rewording' and the 'credit taking'.
Do you credit each and every person that influence your current religious beliefs? Have you ever credited Martin Luther in one of your posts?
If sonship is saying 'I came up with this and its MY ministry' then you may have a case. But if he is merely preaching christianity then he isn't necessarily ...[text shortened]... ng credit at all as it is implicit that the belief system he is promoting is from third parties.
Still, it is just perpetuating the big scam.

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I prefer to give a link so as to avoid my thread getting derailed, but that's me. Maybe the willful repeat offenders just like to argue.

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The thing I don't like about failure to cite sources is that I would like to be able to go to the source and read the quoted material in context. Who and what is the source, what is the main topic, etc.

But all I think I want to do is not read excessive unattributed verbiage. And perhaps let them know of my own personal policy on this.

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Originally posted by josephw
That depends.

Plagiarism is a serious accusation. Borrowing ideas and thoughts from another, and paraphrasing to expound on those ideas and thoughts, isn't plagiarism unless one uses direct quotes and copy/pastes from copyrighted material.

At least that's how I understand it.
That is a very narrow view of plagiarism.

You can plagiarise someone's ideas without directly quoting them;
it is intellectual theft.

You think re-writing the Harry Potter books would be legal without permission?

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Definitely should acknowledge sources

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