[WikiEN-l] On Plagiarism

[Fred Bauder]

Perhaps a Notes page could accompany each article as in these two citations:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/communitarianism/

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/communitarianism/notes.html#05

Fred

> 
> From a recent New York Times article:
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/31/books/31BOMB.html?tntemail1
> 
> 'The Naval Academy's history department, in its guidelines on plagiarism,
> states that citations "must clearly and explicitly guide the reader to the
> sources used" and that writers must indicate "all use of another's words,
> even if they constitute only part of a sentence, with quotation marks and
> specific citation."
> 
> A statement on plagiarism that is posted on the Web site of the American
> Historical Association states that a historian "should never simply borrow
> and rephrase the findings of other scholars" and that "the clearest abuse is
> the use of another's language without quotation marks and citation."'
> 
> So what standard should we follow?
> 
> Should we be using footnotes in all articles in such instances?
> 
> I should confess that I have used considerable "rephrasing" from time to
> time in my Wikipedia articles. That avoids copyright violation but not
> plagarism as defined above.
> 
> Fred
> 
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