[WikiEN-l] Citizendium

[Rich Holton]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Rich Holton <richholton at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:21 PM, <wjhonson at aol.com> wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>
>> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>; wjhonson at aol.com
>> Sent: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 8:55 pm
>> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Citizendium
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>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:46 PM,  &lt;wjhonson at aol.com<lt%3Bwjhonson at aol.com>&gt;
>> wrote:
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>> If the author who is placing their material PD, not by age, doesn't
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>> like what people do with it, they shouldn't have made it PD.
>> The problem with plagiarism is that it's dishonest, and it remains
>> dishonest regardless of what the original author allowed or even
>> desire>>
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>> What?  What does plagiarism have to do with what I said?
>> I specifically said that you place the PD text in WikiSource and point
>> at it.  There is no way to plagiarize under those conditions, you are
>> making it explicit.  So I have no idea to what you refer here.
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>> Will Johnson
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> I've got to disagree with you, Will. If the original author places
> something in the PD, then there is no way to violate copyright law. But
> claiming to be the author of something that someone else wrote is dishonest,
> even if you are not violating their copyright.
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> Certainly you can understand this in the context of a school paper: a
> student submitting a paper written by someone else, even if that paper is in
> the PD, is still plagiarism, pure and simple.
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> -Rich
>

Let me amend myself here. I didn't read carefully. I agree that plagiarism
is dishonest, but if you're not disagreeing with that, I don't disagree with
you.

I apologize for responding before understanding...

-Rich