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Contributors to the online encyclopedia Misplaced Pages, often referred to as Wikipedians, license their submitted content under a Creative Commons license, which permits re-use as long as attribution is given. However, there have been a number of occasions when persons have failed to give the necessary attribution and attempted to pass off material from Misplaced Pages as their own work. Such plagiarism is a violation of the Creative Commons license and, when discovered, can be a reason for embarrassment, professional sanctions, or legal issues.

In educational settings, students sometimes copy Misplaced Pages to fulfill class assignments. A 2011 study by Turnitin found that Misplaced Pages was the most copied website by both secondary and higher education students.

Notable instances

Many notable individuals and institutions have been credibly said to have committed plagiarism from Misplaced Pages.

See also

References

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  3. "A famed oncologist's bestselling new health book about 'animal secrets' got yanked off the shelves after the LA Times discovered he copied from Misplaced Pages". Yahoo News. 6 March 2023. Archived from the original on 27 November 2023. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  4. Rich, Motoko (June 24, 2009), "Chris Anderson apologizes for plagiarizing Misplaced Pages", The New York Times, archived from the original on February 8, 2018, retrieved February 8, 2018
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  7. "Why plagiarism took down Monica Crowley, Trump's pick for a top national security post", The Washington Post, 2017-01-16, archived from the original on 2018-02-08, retrieved 2018-02-07
  8. "Elsevier retracts entire book that plagiarized heavily from Misplaced Pages". Retraction Watch. 2021-05-28. Archived from the original on 2022-09-24. Retrieved 2022-09-24.
  9. "Italy's Five Star Movement accused of plagiarizing Misplaced Pages and rivals' political speeches in election programme", The Local Italy, February 8, 2018, archived from the original on August 13, 2018, retrieved August 13, 2018
  10. Flood, Alison (2013-03-25), "Jane Goodall book held back after accusations of plagiarism", The Guardian, archived from the original on 2018-02-09, retrieved 2018-02-07
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  12. Bhavya Sukheja (October 15, 2024). "Kamala Harris Accused Of Plagiarism In 2009 Book About Being 'Smart On Crime'". NDTV. Austrian professor [Stefan Weber] alleged that one particular mention of New York City's Midtown Community Court in the book pertains to its use of language and structure that closely mirrors a Misplaced Pages article, indicating a lack of proper citation and paraphrasing.
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  14. Stewart, William (October 8, 2010), "IB lifted exam marking guides from Misplaced Pages", The Times Educational Supplement, p. 1, An IB examiner who spoke to The TES said they were "shocked" to discover there were "serious examples of academic dishonesty", throughout the document with guides for 14 of the 24 questions containing large sections copied wholesale from unattributed websites, including Misplaced Pages. The TES has learned that the mark scheme is one of at least three being urgently investigated by the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO) over plagiarism allegations as part of a "wide review" into the issue.
  15. Alba, Davey (March 29, 2020). "How Russia's Troll Farm Is Changing Tactics Before the Fall Election". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 2, 2022. Retrieved March 30, 2020. The Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency, which interfered in the 2016 election, is using different methods to hide itself better...Now Russian operators are trying to avoid detection by copying and pasting chunks of texts from other sources directly into their posts. When Facebook took down 50 accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency in October , many of the posts featured text copied from Misplaced Pages.
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  24. Wong, Kristina (2016-11-17), "Intel chairman: Pentagon plagiarized Misplaced Pages in report to Congress", The Hill, archived from the original on 2018-02-08, retrieved 2018-02-07
  25. Keynes, Soumya; Parker, George (26 October 2023). "New book from shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves lifts from Misplaced Pages". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 6 January 2024. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  26. Amanda Bartlett (June 5, 2022). "Bay Area woman paid to write county history book reportedly plagiarized from Misplaced Pages, SF news outlets". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on May 10, 2023. Retrieved January 6, 2024. After the 580-page manuscript was finally submitted by Jean McCorquodale last January, the Mercury News found that many excerpts were allegedly copied word-for-word from the websites she was drawing her research from, including a section from the Misplaced Pages page for politician Jonathan D. Stevenson, a paragraph from a History Channel article about the Spanish-American War's Treaty of Paris and segments from another page on the Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation website.
  27. Markay, Lachlan. "Book Alleging Biden Corruption in Ukraine Lifted Passages From Misplaced Pages". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on October 3, 2019. The Daily Beast found more than a dozen instances in which Secret Empires, the bestselling book by investigative journalist Peter Schweizer, copied nearly complete sentences or sizable portions of them verbatim or near-verbatim from other sources. In a number of instances, those sources were uncited Misplaced Pages pages created before the book's publication in early 2018.
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  32. "La Primera dama de Argentina plagia presuntamente 20 páginas de Misplaced Pages para su tesis". abc (in Spanish). 2021-05-31. Archived from the original on 2021-06-01. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
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