Timeline for Is it acceptable to paste a Quora answer here?
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| Jun 4, 2017 at 17:10 | comment | added | Arm the good guys in America | I interpret your answer to be that the answer I'm asking about is not in the poster's own words. If so, why is the answer still standing? | |
| Apr 26, 2017 at 16:09 | comment | added | undercat | @Mari-LouA I guess you're right and I was just lucky enough to stumble across open articles such as take or gender. I wonder what exactly determines which articles become public! | |
| Apr 26, 2017 at 15:55 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @undercat Nope doesn't work for me. I tried the incognito page and nada, I only see the request to punch in my subscriber login and password or Library card login. I tried here: english.stackexchange.com/a/301859/44619 | |
| Apr 26, 2017 at 15:47 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @undercat I think in your case that is the exception. And I don't know why you can view its pages. Next time, I'll try the incognito mode. I do know that there are some pages which are available, free for viewing, but that number is very very limited.Whenever someone has posted a page linked to the OED (not Oxford dictionaries online) I have never been able to see its contents. The annual subscription fee is also astronomical, if it was a lifetime...maybe I'd consider, but otherwise I'll just live without. | |
| Apr 26, 2017 at 15:19 | comment | added | undercat | @Mari-LouA I have no OED subscription and yet I've been able to read all links to its entries posted by other users. I'm not sure why exactly that is the case, but my suspicion is that whenever a link to OED is posted, the article becomes accessible through that link to everyone. You can confirm it yourself by trying to access such links via the incognito(aka private) mode in your browser. | |
| Apr 26, 2017 at 6:12 | comment | added | Gary | @Josh It's different to quote a dictionary when explaining the meaning of a word, to copying an entire answer from another platform. When you answer a question outside of the scope of 'what does this word/phrase' mean, you are giving your opinion regarding the best answer to the question. I'm not saying it's wrong to quote an answer from another platform. Providing the answer is the best answer you can provide, and moves the question along, personally I don't see anything wrong with it. Just wanted to make the distinction clear between quoting a dictionary for meaning, and an entire answer. | |
| Apr 25, 2017 at 7:31 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Only subscribers can read OED links, presumably Clare was quoting from that specific dictionary, not Oxford Online Dictionaries. | |
| Apr 25, 2017 at 5:14 | comment | added | user66974 | @Clare - here is another "plagiarism" exemple. Essentially a verbatim quote from a dictionary (btw you forgot the link....). Yet the answer still stands. english.stackexchange.com/questions/384782/… | |
| Apr 25, 2017 at 4:56 | comment | added | Arm the good guys in America | I haven't brought up plagiarism. I have brought up an answer whose content is an answer taken verbatim from Quora. It seems at least two moderators here are aware of this–yet the answer still stands. | |
| Apr 24, 2017 at 20:53 | history | edited | Tonepoet | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 24, 2017 at 20:41 | comment | added | herisson | @Josh: There seems to be a kind of terminological bait-and-switch that has unfortunately developed where the policy called "the SE plagiarism policy" covers other things in addition to plagiarism. The linked post does say " A post that consists only of copied text, even when attributed, is not your work either." It also says "[so-and-so] is plagiarism if you try, explicitly or implicitly, to pass it off as your own work." Apparently we are supposed to infer from this that a post that is "not your work" is bad in some way, even if if it doesn't meet the definition of plagiarism. | |
| Apr 24, 2017 at 19:08 | comment | added | user66974 | Plagiarism implies the personal attribution of the work of other authors, which is not the case here. The source is clearly stated and the link is easily visible. When a user cites the definition of a term from whatever dictionary (it's been done thousands of times on ELU citing the relevant dictionary), would that be "plagiarism"? | |
| Apr 24, 2017 at 16:35 | history | answered | MetaEdMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |