Quoting articles form other sites

erolz · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject: Quoting articles form other sites

Please please can we avoid the wholesale copying and pasting of news articles from other sites.

A link and a quoted extract is the way to do this, not a copy and paste of the whole article. 99% of the time you can get the url of the article by right clicking on it and selecting properties. If you still can not find the link necessary PM me and I will help you with this.

There are copyright issues in the wholesale copying and pasting of entire articles. Further I personaly think it is just rude to take someone else's work from it's original location and reproduce it elsewhere in it's entirety without their prior permission.

So can we please try and use links and extracts instead.

Thank you .

cannedmoose · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:32 pm Post subject:

I think as a rule, it's ok to reprint about 5% of the complete article and then paste a link to the rest of it. That 5% gives enough of an idea about the subject.

glitterygert · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:36 pm Post subject:

I hope I haven't done anything wrong, re: GWB ifI have sorry

Crash Test Dummy · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:43 pm Post subject:

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