Interesting.
As to the point about secondary citation, it is standard practice in classes
that teach about research and writing to cover how to do secondary citation.
For example look at
_http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/apadocu.html_
(
http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/apadocu.html)
The way we should approach citing a reference *through* someone else's
citation is
"so and so as cited in such and such"
It's really a matter of courtesy that we cite *in some way* the actual
source which we actually consulted. Of course that isn't the issue here. It
would appear, reading-between-the-lines, that exact quotes or paraphrases were
lifted from the Wikipedia article without either en-quoting, or acknowledging
the source whatsoever. Or perhaps merely acknowledging it by way of a simple
bibliography, which really isn't sufficient if you are quoting.
Will Johnson
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