footnotes, notes, citations, references and bibliography
Note: Many of today's style guides forbid or deprecate footnotes and reference endnotes when used simply to cite sources [1]. The
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The article on
Tony Tether was copied directly from
a US government website. I've seen things like this multiple times. Although the material appears to be in the public domain, it doesn't seem proper to copy-and-paste into Wikipedia what others have written. Are their any policies or guidelines about this? Thanks! -
Medtopic 00:13, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
This is done often with this sort of public domain material. Of course, it should be edited for NPOV and encyclopedic style, as well, it needs to be wikified.
Rmhermen 02:05, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
In academia, it would certainly be improper. Here, we usually give attribution if the borrowing is substantial (see my newly-created
Category:Attribution templates; I know there are templates somewhere for government works too). —
Simetrical (
talk •
contribs) 03:07, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Source material clearly in the
public domain, such as the source in question, is proper to bring over to Wikipedia. The source is indicated in the References section, as is standard for Wikipedia. However, it should be improved with with an
inline citation, and further edited for NPOV and encyclopedic style.
Intermediate source
Is it appropriate to use material from a particular source, but to credit that particular sources citations in the article instead of the author?
Torturous Devastating Cudgel 16:54, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
No. If you use an intermediate source, your content is depending on the reliability of that intermediate source as well as the quoted source. Your citation should reflect that.
Section 3.1 of WP:CITE -
Clubjuggle 01:43, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
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