[WikiEN-l] The dangers of not citing Wikipedia

[Fred Bauder]

I thought so. It didn't make sense that you could consult a bibliography
or extensive list of references without citing it.

Fred

> 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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