8. Cutting and pasting / plagiarism
a. General
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It duplicates information that is easily accessible elsewhere.
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It may breach copyright laws.
Therefore, we ask that posters abide by the following guidelines:
All quotes from other sites must be attributed (e.g. by posting a link to the site).
Quoted text should be restricted to a few lines or a paragraph unless the poster is quoting the text along with his or her, own detailed analysis (interspersed with the text).
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