Anderson Plagiarism Apology
Sounds like a lackapologica! Chris Anderson accused after lifting passages for 'free' | theBookseller.com:
'All those are my screw-ups after we decided not to run notes as planned, due to my inability to find a good citation format for web sources'.How pitifully lame.
posted by Georganna Hancock M.S. | 5:23 PM
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Oh, please! Lame indeed.
In less than 5 seconds I found a page on Wikipedia itself on how to properly reuse their content:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:REUSE
Silly me scrolled down the home page until I found Help Desk. From there I found the link via a plagiarism/copyright FAQ. Granted, the FAQ question probably stemmed from this case.
So I took another, oh, 3 seconds and typed "citing Wikipedia" in the search box from the help page. Amazing what answers I got.
I used yet another few seconds to do a Google search for "how to cite web source". Amazingly, and who would have even considered it, the MLA has information on it.
Took me longer to type this that it did to find the answers.
I know! Oh, PaulaO, so nice to hear from you again. Thanks for dropping in and leaving a message. When I first saw the news story, all I could think of was the books I'm currently reading that have marvelous citations from the Internet. The info has been in the AP Style Guide for quite a few years and, I assumed, in every other style manual including whatever one the publisher uses!
Doesn't say much for the book's editor, either, does it?
It *is* nice that the Wik provides the proper citation for using its content. Too bad you can't rely on that content, so you should probably not be citing it in anything for publication or academic credit.
That's what I was thinking, too. Wikipedia is an excellent place to start but, like most sources, far from being the only place to refer to.
I come here often, Georgia. Real Life has been a downer with Apathy winning out over almost everything. You know what I mean, I think.
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