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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:57:19 +1000
From: Tim Starling <t.starling@xxx>
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Automatically checking for copyright
violations
To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org
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Alphax wrote:
> I've always held that anything over 5-6 words is plagiarism, unless
it
> is quoted. Quotations are fair use provided they are cited
appropriately.
Your unattributed quote "quotations are fair use" is plagiarism, and
that is unacceptable. You should give Joseph Carter credit where it is
due. He wrote "attributed quotations are fair use" in a post to
debian-legal:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/05/msg00001.html
, and your post was clearly ripped off from that.
Seriously though, I have seen a case where a Wikipedian slapped a
copyvio tag on something because it shared some phrases with a webpage.
The author complained that he had spent hours reading multiple sources,
and rewriting the information therein in his own words. That is
unequivocally acceptable under copyright law, and the tag was soon
removed. There's no need to be paranoid. We should be careful not to
accuse people of plagiarism who are merely paraphrasing or rewriting.
-- Tim Starling