Citing Work

[xolilsk8rchicaxo]

dont you guys think that if you get work from a wesite and post it on here you should cite it with that website or who really wrote it or something like that? cuz otherwise its plagerism and wouldnt that rule apply here too? please answer back thanks!



**steff**

[Kiyotie]

Well when I do something like that I'm not technically claiming that I wrote it. At least that's how I view it. But of course in the real world I'm sure we SHOULD cite all works, which I try to remember to do. Eh I dunno.

[Teardrop]

Plagiarism is only if you pass off someone elses work as your own for personal gain, whether it be financial or otherwise. I think.

[xolilsk8rchicaxo]

and then theres the whole fact that on most websites it have more info related to that so you should link it so people can go there if they would like to...i dunno i jut think it is morally wrong



**stef**

[OverDrive]

Originally posted by Teardrop@Aug 21 2003, 06:05 PM

Plagiarism is only if you pass off someone elses work as your own for personal gain, whether it be financial or otherwise. I think.

As a technicallity, that is not true.



dictionary.com says



n 1: a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work



Doesnt matter if it's for personal gain or not, if you claim it as your own and it isnt, regardless of the matter, its plagiarism.

[xolilsk8rchicaxo]

and it doesnt matter one way or another if they say "i wrote this" or the dont say it..theyre still putting it under their name and without a link or it being cited people automatically assume that you wrote it



**steff**

[Skye]

Originally posted by OverDrive+Aug 21 2003, 03:18 PM--<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'<tr<tdQUOTE (OverDrive @ Aug 21 2003, 03:18 PM)</td</tr<tr<td id='QUOTE' <!--QuoteBegin-Teardrop@Aug 21 2003, 06:05 PM

Plagiarism is only if you pass off someone elses work as your own for personal gain, whether it be financial or otherwise. I think.

As a technicallity, that is not true.



dictionary.com says



n 1: a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work



Doesnt matter if it's for personal gain or not, if you claim it as your own and it isnt, regardless of the matter, its plagiarism. [/b][/quote]

VERY true.

[Teardrop]

Originally posted by OverDrive@Aug 21 2003, 11:18 PM

As a technicallity, that is not true.



dictionary.com says



n 1: a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work



Doesnt matter if it's for personal gain or not, if you claim it as your own and it isnt, regardless of the matter, its plagiarism.

Yeah, I went and chcked just after I posted. Although it's difficult to discern between whether someone is quoting something or passing it off as it's own work. If you were to make it neccessary for everyone to give credit to the original authors of everything written on here, I imagine people would take ages to do so.