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To: Junior; Thatcherite; Coyoteman; PatrickHenry

Sticks and stones, gentlemen; sticks and stones. Sounds like none of you have grown up quite yet. Or perhaps your advanced degrees have caused you to de-evolutionize.


1,338 posted on 09/24/2006 8:52:05 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Father of an American Soldier)
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To: Junior; js1138; presently no screen name; SoldierDad
I have had it with all of the personal sniping on this thread!

Numerous posts have been removed, one poster has already been “nuked” and two have received a suspension.

Discuss the issues all you want, but do NOT make it personal!

That is not merely a suggestion. Ignoring the moderator has consequences.

Now, concerning the excerpt at 1286 and the links at 1296 and 1310: that particular original source (Evidence Bible) does not assert a copyright. They encourage their material to be distributed. The second link credited the original source – and the excerpt here at 1286 should have likewise credited the original source.

Whenever a poster quotes a source --- even if it is in the public domain, such as this appears to be --- it is both customary and necessary for the source to be provided.

The standard does not apply to quoting Scriptures and other such broadly available information which has long been in the public domain.

Besides the obvious problems which can arise from using unsourced excerpts – the practice itself is presumed to be plagiarism and therefore reflects on the poster.

Again, that does not apply to quoting Scripture – which would be a desired kind of plagiarism anyway.

1,341 posted on 09/24/2006 10:18:17 AM PDT by Religion Moderator
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