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ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 32 pts · 247d

Improper citation ☝️🤓

morrowind@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 247d (1 reply)

This isn't even correct.

No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org · 5 pts · 247d

And even if it was it would be a bad citation at it significantly changed the context

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 247d

All citations must be in the form of memes.

Sunsofold@lemmings.world · 7 pts · 247d

"Yes" ^1^

  1. Lastname, Me (2023). Part 3. In A Book of Things I Wrote Just to Cite Them (37th ed., Vol. 1, pp. 1–100). story, Me Publishing.
J92@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 247d

I once argued this with my teacher in Uni.

"Do I have to find a quote of someone saying it if I say the sky is blue? Do I have to reference my parents when I put my name at the top of the page?"

Unsurprisingly, he said I was being obtuse.

InnerScientist@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 247d

"No"^1

1 No

Capt_Trav@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 247d

I think he cited the wrong source. Technically William Shakespeare was plagiarizing that from someone before him

otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 246d

This issue is clarified in the second part of the next footnote. ^(See 2b)^