Timeline for New off-topic reason for puzzles where the source is not mentioned
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| Jul 17, 2018 at 22:28 | comment | added | Rubio Mod | 1) Plagiarism is functionally a subset of no-attribution, and shouldn't need its own handling as a close reason (as a reason for deletion after the fact is another matter entirely; the plagiarism=delete policy is more geared toward how we handle content that we didn't know was plagiarised until usually much later). In fact, since the plagiarism policy expressly calls out that "posts containing attribution are not plagiarized", it actually weakens our position, as any token "attribution" evades a plagiarism censure. 2) Ongoing contests aren't even a close reason, if you look at our policy! | |
| Jul 17, 2018 at 18:10 | comment | added | Glorfindel | Thanks! Those are valid points about the wording, I've posted a new version of the close reason. | |
| Jul 17, 2018 at 14:52 | history | answered | GentlePurpleRainMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |