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I often write hard core researched articles. I don’t make it up as I go along. When I am dealing with facts, that is things that really happened, I research. If an incident happened on the 23rd of November 1963… I will write that date. If 45,000 people have a specific disease, I will write that.
There is a difference between using facts and plagiarizing. I use facts. Yes! You can find the exact fact on Google. That is because it is True. When you use it and Admin tells you ‘plagiarism!’ you have to step away from your computer.
I could write an item, leave out all the facts, the dates, the places, the times, but the item would be worthless. It would be like writing;
” long time ago a guy took three boats and sailed west from Europe and landed on some islands and then came back.”
Because Dare I write, “In 1492…(fill in the rest dare I be charged for plagiarism)….”
There is a difference between relaying facts, and plagiarising. I usually read three or more different bits on something I am discussing before posting so as to be precise. I am not someone who would claim 218 people were murdered by police in the United States since January, if I had not verified the number.
Now, being slapped down by Admin I will resort to posts I might be ashamed to put my nick on.
There is a legal understanding of ‘fair use’. There is a legal concept of ‘education’.
Many people quote Shakespeare. They are not claiming to have written the play or the sonnet, they are quoting, and some quotes are toss aways; people are not going to give the ‘chapter and verse’.
Newspapers all over the world, websites, radio programs, will state the news. That X gave a speech in the City of Y and said ‘………….’ would be quoted. No one is suing the newspaper for repeating what X said. And others will not quote X, simply precise what X said.
If X says that three hundred thousand people are out of work in the City of Y and I repeat that in an item; to be charged with ‘plagiarism’ is ridiculous.
However, until such time, as Admin gets a better understanding of plagiarism I’ll avoid factual pieces, I’ll avoid Facts. I’ll post in general.
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As long as you give attribution to the source, there is nothing wrong with it.
I usually do that also, citing some date or statistics but I state the source or cite the persons who said it. It is not plagiarism, like what you said in your post; it is merely giving credit where credit is due. It is not owning what other people had said,or what other people had studied or researched.
The problem of A.I., if not properly tweaked is that it can not tell the difference between a quote and plagairism.
Hence if I write; President Barack Obama said, when running for President of the United States, "Yes We Can," I would be flagged for plagiarism by an A.I. checker
Informative article to any newcomer or even someone who has been around for a few months. It is better to write fictional work or details which cover some subject which only we know and no one else would know. But it impedes the number of choices which are available to a writer. I saw your article of Rio Olympics and also the comments as to what was written. I found the article based on facts.
Hence I appreciated the article. That is how an article should be if it is a subject like that if it uses data from source hence forth I will make it a point to quote the source so that my article will not be called plagiarized by the checker. For someone new this article is informative provided they read and know what happens when facts are given. I am thinking as to tackle this issue. One I wrote an article in the forum. Two I am responding to this article by you. I am checking what other options are there for writers safety. Thanks for the share.
If I was taking the information from the NY Times, I would have admitted it, but I took the information from three different sources, and combined them. I put it in my own words, but the problem is that I could not put how much money, how long, when, and what in different words. A stadium was built in the Amazon which was a waste of money. I could not change the place, or the fact it was neglected.
A wiser and more astute Admin would appreciate I couldn't change those facts or put them into my own words without destroying the substance. If I had written 'a lot of money' instead of 12 Billion, then the plag. detector would have passed. But the article would be worthless.