[Wikipedia-l] Re: Automatically checking for copyright violations

[Mark Williamson]

In myself, much astonishment can be found. Tim, sources copyrighted
have been, by you, off-ripped.

"was clearly ripped off from" from
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=19265&DisplayTab=Article,
has, by you, been clearly plagiarised.

Unacceptability can be multitudinous in the plagiarism-like acts.

Easily can be spotted plagiarism, since obviously longer sequence than
4 words from some oddly-existing source must have been themselves
plagiarised.

On you shame I cast.

Mark

On 20/06/05, Tim Starling <t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> 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
> 
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