You know the footnotes on wikipedia articles? Would it be considered plagiarism if i copy and pasted a footnote from there and used it as a footnote on an essay of mine?
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Anonymous2011-05-01 16:36
fuck off
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Anonymous2011-05-01 16:37
be sure to realise them under the GPL otherwise it's theft
Yes it would. Any text you copy/paste is plagiarism, even if it's just footnotes. Guttenberg, a German politician, just recently had some 'fun' with his plagiarism being uncovered (footnotes counted as well)