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Anarchopedia:Copyright
From meta:Licenses:
- GNU Free Documentation License - Anarchopedia's license
- GNU GPL - It's OK to use this license on Anarchopedia, too.
- Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License - It's OK to use this license on Anarchopedia, too.
- Creative Commons Attribution License - It's OK to use this license on Anarchopedia, too.
Wikipedia fails to recognize the long-standing right to quote short passages of a work. In fact, Wikipedia fails its responsibility to not misrepresent the nature of works when it paraphrases and summarizes them as a matter of course. Everywhere else in academic circles, and indeed on the Commons, with respect to image files, this responsibility is taken quite seriously.
Consequently, academic contributions are always first removed from Wikipedia[1] by overzealous "anti-plagiarists",[2] and only those academics who are persistent enough to learn and emulate WP's irresponsible ways contribute.
This brain drain problem is exacerbated by the additional deviation from the standard academic practice of listing sources and then referring to them within the text with notes of the page numbers, although Wikipedia's version of citations is a practical solution with only the one problem and the alternative of academic practice is not obviously preferable.
Citations
- ↑ Note the example of Origin of the Romanians
- ↑ Note the example of Literary sources for the origin of the Romanians, sources for which are quotations of 14th Century and earlier texts, and thus at least 500 years older than any material covered by US copyright law
