[Wikipedia-l] cut/paste

[Jimmy Wales]

Wojciech Pobratyn wrote:
> I have a bit of a moral dilemma here: some articles on wikipedia seem to
> pop-up non-wikified and written slightly 'too well'. It seems obvious that
> it is a copy/paste job from another source. What should we/I do in such a
> case? Delete it? It could be from a free source or someone's work for
> work/uni/school that he just wishes to share with the community... Plz help
> me out on this one.

What I generally do is search for snippets of the text on Google or Altavista.
Generally, finding the source is easy whenever there has been plagiarism.

Also, usually the source will make it self-evident whether reuse is permissible.


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