One administrative note, please:
if one clicks the link Bijo graciously provided, and scrolls to the bottom of that page, one sees:
Now, we're acustomed to seeing those notices at the tail end of news items we like to share with our fellow backroomers. We're so used to it, that we ignore it, like we ignore the ads and other peripheral stuff.© 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
But it's important, for reasons I hope are obvious to all here. I'd explain further, but I'm sure it's unnecessary.
When you cite a news story, or other remote, non-Org source, proper, legal, and moral protocol dictates that we:
1. identify the source
2. give proper attribution (name the actual author, lest folks wrongly think they're your words)
3. provide a hyperlink to the source (so as to provide Ceasar what is Ceasar's)
4. quote only an excerpt of the content. That would be 49% or less. Copy/pasting the entire content robs both the author and publisher of their due compensation (eyeballs viewing original content).
Kindly observe these protocols in the future, out of a sense of fairness to the content-providing community (of which we are members), and to keep the Org out of legal trouble.
Disclaimer: I mean no disrespect or criticism of Bijo's posting style, or anyone else's, here. I simply used this thread as an example, to try and straighten out and clarify proper methods of citation/quoting. This has become an issue of some concern, and I've PMd several posters individually. Now I make this general statement.
Bookmarks