Timeline for What is plagiarism? How do I avoid it? How do I address it when I see it?
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| Oct 8, 2018 at 18:23 | comment | added | MetaEd Mod | @Laurel That I know of, there is no "convert to question" feature. Of course the person who posted it can repost as a question. | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 7:37 | comment | added | user 66974 | @Mari-LouA - keep out of what?..the "user" has made the same allegations about some of my recent answers too, the only difference with you is that I understood there was nothing helpful or constructive in her comments, but just sheer, empty and unsubstantiated criticism, probably just for the sake of it. Giving credit to her comments is not the way to solve this issue. | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 6:57 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @user240918 I know and realise that you feel strongly about this issue, and you think you have been victimised unfairly in the past long before you were called user240918, but I was speaking directly to Laurel. This post is not about "you", so can you now please keep out of it? | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 6:32 | comment | added | user 66974 | Now, we might discuss what “unoriginal” means but as for plagiarizing I think the issue is set. | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 6:31 | comment | added | user 66974 | @Mari-LouA - as MetaEd noted above, you didn’t plagiarize anything: “You clearly provided full credit to the other authors. Most definitions of plagiarism require a failure to credit authorship – the material used has to wrongly appear to be the author's own work. Indeed, I do not see that you were ever accused of plagiarism. The objection was that your answer was unoriginal.” | |
| Oct 4, 2018 at 20:01 | comment | added | Laurel Mod | Can this answer be moved to its own question? It's not a very good FAQ answer because you need to know the history of a specific answer to understand it. I do think the discussion of "what about answers that are mostly/entirely a single attributed quote" needs to happen (again). This isn't really related to plagiarism; the only connection is that this page was used as justification the last time this issue came up. | |
| Oct 4, 2018 at 19:55 | comment | added | user 66974 | @Mari-LouA - yes, I take it personally. The same user donwvoted the following answer saying in a comment, later deleted, that it didn’t answer the question english.stackexchange.com/questions/466244/… - maybe she doesn’t deserve much attention. | |
| Oct 4, 2018 at 19:36 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @MetaEd What was her first comment? You can check it yourself, but I think it was "-1 This answer is not yours" (words to that effect) Well, when did I say it was? Knotell's both links referred to your posts, posts that talk about plagiarism. Call me paranoid, but when I see links that denounce the practice of plagiarism, I take it personally. | |
| Oct 4, 2018 at 18:09 | comment | added | MetaEd Mod | @Mari-LouA You clearly provided full credit to the other authors. Most definitions of plagiarism require a failure to credit authorship – the material used has to wrongly appear to be the author's own work. Indeed, I do not see that you were ever accused of plagiarism. The objection was that your answer was unoriginal. The most clear statement of the originality policy is in the same Stack Exchange FAQ that defines the plagiarism policy. Perhaps the name of that article, plus the abrasive tone in which the objection was given, led you to conclude you were being accused of plagiarism. | |
| Oct 4, 2018 at 18:02 | comment | added | user 66974 | @Mari-LouA - you have been accused of plagiarism just by one “user”. Had it been a real case of plagiarism, I’m pretty sure your question would have already been removed. You are probably weighing too much that comment. | |
| Oct 4, 2018 at 17:22 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @MetaEd would you say I plagiarised content from another site passing it off as my own? | |
| Oct 4, 2018 at 17:17 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 4, 2018 at 17:11 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 4, 2018 at 15:21 | comment | added | MetaEd Mod | It is intertwined with this post, as you say. As a new question, it can link back here for reference. But it is not an answer to this question. I want you to have the opportunity to copy and paste it to a new question box before somebody deletes it here. | |
| Oct 4, 2018 at 14:59 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | In my opinion, my request is intertwined with this post, @knotell posted her criticism twice and supported her claim by citing your answer (twice) in her comments. By posting my request here, users can easily refer to the criteria laid out by yourself and SE and decide whether the accusation of plagiarism has any foundation. | |
| Oct 4, 2018 at 14:24 | comment | added | MetaEd Mod | This is a good question, and belongs in its own new meta question. It's not an answer to the meta question you have attached it to. This is part of the site FAQ. | |
| Oct 4, 2018 at 10:30 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 4, 2018 at 9:54 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 4, 2018 at 9:00 | comment | added | user 66974 | That was the real purpose of the comment...and it worked :) | |
| Oct 4, 2018 at 8:59 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | I'm not worried. I'm p***ed off. | |
| Oct 4, 2018 at 8:56 | comment | added | user 66974 | The cited user was just annoyed by your copy and paste style in that specific answer. It was crystal clear from the start that you didn't try in any possible way to make it pass as your own material. You provided all the necessary information about the original source of the text. Why worry? The problem here is not your answer. | |
| Oct 4, 2018 at 7:38 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 4, 2018 at 7:30 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 4, 2018 at 7:24 | history | answered | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |