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To be fair, the "self plagiarizing" thing got way out of hand. It's a little bit not cool to not tell your audience that you've recycled some of your own colum
by phillmv 14y ago
To be fair, the "self plagiarizing" thing got way out of hand.
It's a little bit not cool to not tell your audience that you've recycled some of your own columns. But… at the time I really didn't see any grounds for all the cries of lèse majesté.
- ghaff 14y agoAgreed. Reasonably large chunks of material in A-list pubs was probably over the line of accepted practice. But way, way different from plagiarizing someone else or making stuff up. In general, I don't find anything especially wrong with judiciously reusing material. If I've explained XYZ tech in an article in the past, I may well cut-and-paste that paragraph, reworking it a bit for flow, if I need the same explanation again. Similarities might well be sufficient to be called plagiarism if it were someone else I cut-and-pasted. That said, I would be a lot more conservative in the case of a commissioned article from a major publication.