Editor Log: March 6, 2001

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(thing) by heyoka (5.2 d) (print) ? (I like it!) 1 C! Tue Mar 06 2001 at 15:03:06

Plagiarism will not be tolerated.

When you hear the term Cut-and-Paste Writeups Will Die, believe it.

Saying "but, I typed it up myself, and added links, it was a LOT of work" is not a good answer. Cut and paste, in this context, means plagiarism. Taking someone else's work and presenting it as your own original work may win you XP, chings and adulation, but, if it is discovered, it will not last.

You need to write your own stuff.

Adding a credit to the work stops it being plagiarism, but then you're in to the sticky subject of copyright violation. Copying out entire works (whole articles, entire press releases, chapters from books) is not OK. Saying "with thanks to X" is fine if you have used X as a minor source. It's not OK if you've lifted the entire writeup from X.

Write your own stuff.

You can read through a couple of information sources, digest the meanings, and then write a brand new work in your very own words. You can summarise, you can interpret, you can synthesise work from multiple sources. (No, not just copying lines from multiple works and stitching them together. That's just stealing from several people at once.)

Unlucky noder ReiToei has been caught in flagrante delicto. All of the following write ups have been nuked, with penalty, for plagiarism. I'll do the same to any others that I find.

Qube was lifted from an article in Media Visions Webzine
Clannad was copied from an Atlantic Records press release on a Clannad web site
Jack Charlton was copied from a football web site
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine was copied directly from the cooking vinyl web site
Gay Byrne was copied from a profile at Eircell
The Blasket Islands is taken from the Local Ireland web site
The Aran Islands is ripped off from Rick Steve's backdoors
Lisdoonvarna is from clarenet.ie
Laurent Garnier is taken from the mute web site

Anyone want to take on some lonely nodeshells that need good, well-researched, original write ups?

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Editor Log: March 7, 2001	in flagrante delicto	Gay Byrne	Clannad
Write your own stuff	Qube	How to win the gold and make a baby cry	What Would Cthulhu Do?
Edward Penis-hands	ReiToei	All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landings there.	vomit euphemisms
February 8, 2000	Jack Charlton	Editor Log: December 2000	Editor Log: November 2000
Root Log, January 1, (-13.7±0.2)E9	Laurent Garnier	editor	Editor Log: December 2001
Dr. SBaitso	Editor Log: January 20, 2001	NFN	Me and a Gun

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