User blog:TheAdfeng/Project: Plagiarism Pyre

I have noticed throughout my time here that mutliple pages have been plagiarized. Plagiarism is defined as "the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own", via Google. Sources are not cited and blocks of text are copied and pasted from websites and nowhere are they mentioned where they are from.

Plagiarism also occurs when you take a source and change a few words. Sure, it's a little different, but you didn't do anything besides take out a word or rephrase it! You still have to credit your source. It wasn't your idea. You didn't come up with it. If you did this at college or a university, you would be expelled and it would go on your record forever. If you look at "Aerokinesis", the second and third paragraph is copied from a website and they replaced the word "techniques" with "lessons". That's plagiarism.

I have started to compile a list of every page that is plagiarized and the place it is plagiarized from. We cannot simply slap quotes around it and say it's from that website. That's not how it works. We have to create original content written by ourselves, from our own community. Getting ideas from other places is great, but if you use an idea from somewhere else you most definitely need to include it as a source. Direct quotes need to be cited in-text. Look at Wikipedia for an example of in-text citation on a Wiki page, or look at another Wikia.

Here begins my compilation(not in any particular order). Please note that I might not have gotten everything.

Psychokinesis

Aerokinesis Agrokinesis (none found)
 * First Paragraph, first sentence: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1615186-le-cre-o
 * First Paragraph, second sentence: https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/14628742/
 * Second Paragraph, first sentence: REBAZAR TARZS IN THE ATOMIC AGE
 * Second Paragraph, second sentence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ravi13Rogue
 * Second and Third Paragraph(yes, rewording is plagiarism):  http://imagin.wikia.com/wiki/Aerokinesis (this may be wrong as it gives credit later for its techniques to Psi Wikia)
 * Aerokinesis Tech 1 & 2(reworded/removed stuff):  http://pyroar.tripod.com/id13.html  >  http://www.scribd.com/doc/40041996/Aerokinesis-Techniques (perhaps original source?
 * Aerokinesis Tech 3 & 4:  http://mindandsoulsecrets.com/aerokinesis-empowering-wind/
 * Medium Tornado: http://www.scribd.com/doc/40041996/Aerokinesis-Techniques

Atmokinesis Biokinesis Chronokinesis None that I am aware of. I would like to mention that it seems there may have been some ideas from other sites taken that need to be credited if they were reworded. Also, as this is a wikia, users do not credit themselves for what they contribute. We are a community and our work is collective. However, the major edits that are done are shown up in the edits and credit is given that way. Stating it on the individual pages can be considered egotistical.
 * First Paragraph, second sentence:  http://howtotelekinesis.com/atmokinesis.html  (cited lots of places, picked one)
 * First Paragraph, last sentence:  http://advancing-evolution.wikia.com/wiki/Atmokinesis  (was in that wikia before this one)
 * http://z13.invisionfree.com/Black_Thorn_Academy/ar/t2905.htm
 * Cloud Seeding, Mist Generation, and Rain Generation:  http://marvel.wikia.com/Glossary:W  (woo, fluff!)
 * Season Manipulation(entire category):  http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/forum/topics/changing-the-weather-through-meditation?xg_source=activity  (original source that the link linked to gave "Connection link reset", so it was inaccessible.  This, however, did have the information)
 * First & Second Paragraph(re-arranged here):  http://bangalore.olx.in/learn-biokinesis-iid-728120713
 * Understanding(all):  http://bangalore.olx.in/learn-biokinesis-iid-728120713
 * Training -> Eye Color:  http://genericindigo.com/forum/topic930.html (It was not on the Wiki as of May 12, 2012)

Cryokinesis  Notes:  All of it seems plagiarized. Needs to be completely re-written. There will be more later. I've got to go to bed now. G'night!
 * Capabilities(all):  http://kinesises.weebly.com/hydrokinesis.html  (website was published before it was added)
 * Techniques:  The previous edits SPECIFICALLY state they gave credit to other websites but didn't list them.  The techniques now need to be rewritten completely as there is no way to give credit to the original source.  The only source I find is the one stated above, but it was published with that information after it was added.  Here is even a website referring to the techniques as well(Nov 19, 2012):  http://globalinc0.wikifoundry.com/page/Cryokinesis

~Ad