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Yes, and it's a big fucking deal in academia -- you're bloating your publications / citations / reputation without actually contributing anything. http://en.wi

• swolchok 17y ago
  From your linked article: "Typically, self-plagiarism is only considered to be a serious ethical issue in settings where a publication is asserted to consist of new material, such as in academic publishing or educational assignments [13]. It does not apply (except in the legal sense) to public-interest texts, such as social, professional, and cultural opinions usually published in newspapers and magazines."