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Rather than use an example of academic dishonesty to point out an academic dishonesty-related jargon issue, you could use something other than Watson and Crick.
– Nij
Commented Feb 9 at 4:36
@Nij There is some irony in that, I agree.
– Karsten
Commented Feb 9 at 5:28
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I'm confused about what the issue with the example in the referencing article is. The example quotes from a page; the help center links to the page where it quotes from. The fact that that page doesn't mention who wrote that text, and that it has links we would normally not accept as direct references as per our standards seems secondary — the fact remains that the relevant piece of quoted text is properly referenced as per our standards. If we wanna change the example to one without the redirects/dead links, and with a clearer author, we can; but the current example is as per standard, no?
– JNat StaffMod
Commented Feb 14 at 15:02
@JNat The current example does not seem to follow two items in the standard, "Provide the name of the original author", and "This ensures that the original creator gets credit for their work." I don't know who wrote the page, and so the original creator does not get credit for their work. Giving a link to a page is always a problem because 10 years later, the URL might be gone or the content might have changed. If you link to a Wikipedia article (like for the definition of plagiarism), the page is very likely to be different after 10 years, unless you link to a specific version of the article.
– Karsten
Commented Feb 15 at 2:00
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For the parts of your answer marked as [status-planned] as of the answer's third revision: we plan to work on these, but feel these changes aren't necessarily blockers for the other proposed changes, so we'll be working on them after rolling out the other changes currently proposed in revision 13 of the question.
– JNat StaffMod
Commented Feb 16 at 14:57

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