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Questions tagged [plagiarism]

Taking chunks from a source and letting no one know about it as you pass it off as your own.

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What to do when an answer seems like it was copied from somewhere else?

I came across an answer on a question that looked rather suspicious. For context, the user has 1 reputation, with only a few answers on a couple of other sites. The answer in question was posted on an ...
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12 votes
1 answer
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Answer copied and filled up with spam

The content of one of my answers was copied and a new answer was created (with some spam added). This was then "corrected" by a user with a score over 2000. Since he was only shown the "...
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3 votes
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What do we do with plagiarism?

There are many answers here which, due to the fact we don't like link only answers, are copies from other websites. We can include a link to the source. Without this link, it's plagiarism. I'm also ...
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