[WikiEN-l] Re: Plagiarism Policy, was A Missing Policy

Tue Jul 19 10:30:31 UTC 2005

There are many grey areas when dealing with plagiarism. Personally, 
when I write a biographical article I end up sifting through 4-5 
online obituaries and merging the contents without much paraphrasing. 
Much of the information in those sources is second-hand and often 
equally unreferenced.

Where does one draw the line? When there is only one good-going 
source of material and this is paraphrased extensively, it should be 
referenced. There are many instances, however, where using the term 
"reference" would be a bit of an overstatement.

JFW

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