On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 18:47 +0100, Peter Damian wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nikola Smolenski" <smole...@eunet.rs> > > 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
How about "copying"? Copying in general is both effortless and thoughtless. > word. Note 'incorporates' suggests that only parts of the material have > been, er, 'copied and pasted'. This is wholesale 'plunder'. The etymology I don't see that it does. It is rather the other way around - parts or the whole of the 'foreign' material could be incorporated in the Wikipedia article - which is true in this case. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incorporate _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
