Are people copying?

Question

Is it just me, or are some people just going to internet reference sources, such as wikipedia, and copying whatever they find there?

Answer 1

Cut, copy and paste
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Windows keys for cut and pasting: Control + x (cut), Control + c (copy), Control + v (paste)
In human-computer interaction, cut and paste or copy and paste is a user interface paradigm for transferring text, data, files or objects from a source to a destination. Most ubiquitous is the ability to cut and paste sections of plain text. This paradigm is closely associated with graphical user interfaces that use pointing devices.
The term cut and paste derives from the traditional practice in manuscript editing in which paragraphs were literally cut from a page with scissors and physically pasted onto another page. This was standard practice as late as the 1960s. Editing scissors with blades long enough to cut an 8-1/2"-wide page were available at stationery stores. The advent of photocopiers made the practice easier and more flexible.
The cut-and-paste paradigm was widely popularized by Apple in the Lisa (1981) and Macintosh (1984) operating systems and applications. It was mapped to a key combination consisting of a special control key held down while typing the letters X (for cut), C (for copy), and V (for paste). These key combinations were later adopted by Microsoft in Windows. Common User Access (in Windows and OS/2) also uses combinations of the Insert, Del, Shift and Control keys. Some environments allow cutting and pasting with a computer mouse (by drag and drop, for example). The first multiple clipboard utility CopyPaste appeared on the Macintosh in 1989 and extended the keyboard concept for each clipboard so that holding down the command key + c + any number (0-9) would copy to a separate clipboard. CopyPaste later displayed and allowed editing hundreds of clipboards and added a clipboard recorder or stack of the most recently made cuts or copies.

Answer 2

Yes, they obviously are. It doesn't bother me too much when they cite the source, but the ones that do that and then don't put anything under sources are plagiarists and they deserve to be reported. Their answers also tend to have a lot of irrelevant junk because they've copied a whole article instead of just parahrasing the important parts.

Answer 3

May be, but then the problem lies with the people who ask a question which can be answered by wikipedia :-)

I mean, if one has a serious problem, and needs help, logically, they would first check Wiki, and other FREE Internet sources, and if the Q cannot be answered, only then proceed to ask people

So, if someone is asking a question that is easily answered by Wiki, and gets a "cut-and-paste" solution from Wiki, I think the person who raised the question got what he/she wanted ... :-)

Answer 4

Yes, they obviously are. It doesn't bother me too much when they cite the source, but the ones that do that and then don't put anything under sources are plagiarists and they deserve to be reported. Their answers also tend to have a lot of irrelevant junk because they've copied a whole article instead of just parahrasing the important parts.

Answer 5

Some people do copy from various internet sources. I don't see anything wrong with it as long as they cite their source, or even better, provide a link to it in the answer.

But if they don't that's not right.

Answer 6

Haha it's not you at all... although it makes me wonder why the people asking the questions don't just skip the middle man :P

Plagiarism is the practise of claiming or implying original authorship of ... hhaaaa just kidding...

** edit **
To the person below.... haha CUT and paste... seems like somebody found a new way to hax wikipedia

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Of course we do. When people ask a question, it's nice to give them a source. It also shows them that with a little work, they could have gotten the answer themselves.

Answer 9

YUP all the time it is sooo annoying. They feel all smart cause they copied a bunch of info totally funny.

Answer 10

some people do the cut and paste thing