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How do you avoid Fluther plagiarism?

Asked by robmandu (21331points) October 6th, 2008

Hey, I need some help understanding something.

Please read this quip.

That quip was wholly copy & pasted from the Dallas City Hall web site. I didn’t say that explicitly in the quip, though. What I did do was hyperlink the main sentence that directly answered the question in order to do two things:

1. let the red, underline text highlight that important part of the answer
2. assume that the hyperlink itself acts as a citation to attribute the source of the quoted text.

By overloading the hyperlink paradigm, did I inadvertently plagiarize?

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