User:Bootmii/Conservapedia:Blatant plagiarism/Morality

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 * Catholic Encyclopedia article on Morality - cited, but with no indication it's being quoted
 * Morality and Political Order, weblog post by Thomas Brewton - this post is not cited or linked to, but another weblog post by the same author is (supposedly) quoted
 * Morality, Justice and Judicial Moralism by Kelly L. Ross - this page isn't cited, but another by the same author is, copied along with the rest of the material from this source. Note: A link and a wholly insufficient citation was added on May 28th, following the initial posting of this examination. Following email from yr hmbl editor, the wording was changed to indicate that the material was, in fact, copied.
 * Buddhist Morality by C. George Boeree - linked to but quote not acknowledged; also included (with no link) in References section.
 * Imitating God: The Basis of Jewish Morality by Joseph B. Soloveichik - this page isn't cited; the link that is cited for the relevant paragraphs doesn't work. It may have been intended to accurately point to the quoted material.  Even if so, no indication was given that the material was a quote; also included (with no link) in References section.

The following changes have been made in the CP article for this presentation:
 * The long quote supposedly from Brewton's weblog post Moral Models from Mainstream Media has been broken up into the apparently-intended original paragraphs (it actually is not from that weblog post).
 * The Paramita list in the Buddist(sic) Morality section has been formatted as a list rather than one long line
 * An image copied from Republican Voices has been removed

The quote from Hobhouse is cited to an excerpt from his Liberalism, but the quote does not appear on the cited page. It does appear, exactly as quoted, in the Catholic Encyclopedia article.

The long Brewton quote isn't from the cited weblog post, it's from a different one by the same author. And somewhat ironically, it's been edited in a few important ways, including at least one which puts words into Brewton's mouth. Even when acknowledging its copying, Conservapedia has problems.

On May 28th, a footnote was added to the "Morality and Law" section heading, reading "This section relies heavily on the Proceedings of the Friesian School, available here.". I don't believe "relies heavily on" as an adequate way of phrasing "is a direct quote from", but it is an improvement.

Following email from your humble editor, the wording for that section was finally changed to "This section copies, with permission, material in the Proceedings of the Friesian School, available here". I believe this does in fact meet the licensing requirements.