Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
On 10/19/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
I'll bite.
Me too!
a) is an infringement of the copyright of the site's authors and is rude.
Very true, on both accounts.
b) is plagiarism and is rude.
Not if you provide a source it ain't. If you provide a reference for the information it is simply another piece of the encyclopedia. Hell, this is what we do! We summarize and paraphrase other sources and put it in neat little packets called "articles". If this really was just paraphrasing (and not, as Mgm points out, just changing a few words) I have no problem with it. Source it, and it's not only ok, it is standard practice.
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I read it as "paraphrasing without attribution of source". If there had been paraphrasing /with/ attribution then I don't see on what grounds they could complain.