[Foundation-l] Expertise and Wikipedia redux
Nikola Smolenski
smolensk at eunet.rs
Sat Oct 16 18:05:53 UTC 2010
On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 18:47 +0100, Peter Damian wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nikola Smolenski" <smolensk at eunet.rs>
> > I don't see how can you call it plagiarism when at the bottom of the
> > article it is clearly written: "This article incorporates text ..."
>
> Unfortunately we don't have a better word to describe the effortless and
> thoughtless copying of something from something else, so I will use that
How about "copying"? Copying in general is both effortless and
thoughtless.
> word. Note 'incorporates' suggests that only parts of the material have
> been, er, 'copied and pasted'. This is wholesale 'plunder'. The etymology
I don't see that it does. It is rather the other way around - parts or
the whole of the 'foreign' material could be incorporated in the
Wikipedia article - which is true in this case.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incorporate
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