[WikiEN-l] The dangers of not citing Wikipedia

[WJhonson at aol.com]

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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