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Re: Unintentional plagiarism
by
coolcoinz
on 27/07/2021, 09:44:53 UTC
There is no accidental plagiarism only ignorance. If you recite or get your information from another source please include the link. If you're paraphrasing and building your arguments based on some research you've done it's probably still better to include the source.

OP mentioned a situation with a wrong source/source link. I guess that can qualify as unintentional plagiarism. I don't believe someone who gave wrong sources for their quotes or did not quote all copied texts, only some of them, would be banned on this forum.