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Originally posted by MagiK:
Plagerism is when you don't accredit the work of others and claim it as your own....I didn't see him do that. No where did he take credit for the source....However *I* might be liable to be called some kind of name since I didn't post proper credits for the material.
Edit: It might also be mentioned that I did say that I had edited the material too to remove certain TOS violations so that I could post it.
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Gee Magik, you're always liable to be called some kind of name... [img]smile.gif[/img]
If anyone uses someone elses material and does not credit the source, it's plagiarism. Publishing anything under your own byline, such as in a blog, is a claim of authorship unless specifically noted otherwise.
If he did credit the sources in his blog then it's not plagiarism, and perhaps you edited that out also.
Actually, since you said up front that you had pulled the info from a blog, you avoided plagiarism, but if the blog author failed to credit the source or at least acknowledge that he didn't originate the material then he is a plagiarist.
The reason I posted the original article is that the blog segment you posted mixes information from one place with other figures without citing where they are from, or what context they are presented in.
I assumed that you, MagiK, had enough integrity not to pull a cut and paste of that type without noting the fact.