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You know, we all probably did something like this in school. Looked up something in the encyclopedia, and then said the same thing by moving a few words around or taking a few out, adding some in. We were lazy or incapable of creatively writing about the subject. How many wrote in their references then? As a former teacher, I saw it, I did in too myself a few times. Today, though, we can easily look up things on the Internet and copy and paste entire paragraphs or more, and the teachers are wise to that now and kids can't slip past them so easily anymore.

We're talking term papers, themes, etc., but there is no excuse for omitting such attributions today and anyone who tries to sound smarter than they really are by trying to pass off another's work for their own, is a thief and plagiarizer. Not to mention, in this day and age, possibly endangering this very site by exposing it to lawsuits for just the same behavior. If somebody has been warned, they have no excuse if they continue to do it and either they do not care - in which case they should be prohibited from continuing and their posts deleted - or they don't know how to create links. If that is the case, I am sure the Moderator or anyone else would be happy to teach them. Even if the HTML codes are not known, the least one should do is list the source. I hope this is a good lesson to the sneaks who falsely think they can slip it past everyone. Fat chance! Just do what's right!

there is no excuse for omitting such attributions today and anyone who tries to sound smarter than they really are by trying to pass off another's work for their own, is a thief and plagiarizer. Not to mention, in this day and age, possibly endangering this very site by exposing it to lawsuits for just the same behavior. If somebody has been warned, they have no excuse if they continue to do it and either they do not care - in which case they should be prohibited from continuing and their posts deleted - or they don't know how to create links.

Very accurate description of the situation, Teacher!

Gold star! 8~)