----- Original Message ----- From: "Nikola Smolenski" <[email protected]> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 6:37 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Expertise and Wikipedia redux
> I don't see how can you call it plagiarism when at the bottom of the > article it is clearly written: "This article incorporates text ..." Unfortunately we don't have a better word to describe the effortless and thoughtless copying of something from something else, so I will use that word. Note 'incorporates' suggests that only parts of the material have been, er, 'copied and pasted'. This is wholesale 'plunder'. The etymology of 'plagiarise' is 'kidnap'. Perhaps I should have said the articles were 'kidnapped'. >>Wikipedia is not entirely relying on century-old sources, however this >>still remains an interesting question. I will link again to my earlier post about the Ockham article http://ocham.blogspot.com/2010/06/william-of-ockham.html In my area, it's all like this. More later (Scotus!!!). _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
