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Apparently he was...

Let's look at this from a more non-defensive perspective. Yes, there are quotation marks (point for you), but no reference to what you are quoting (point for justin). I think a combination of these two views can produce a better product. Here is an example:

From the Inquirer, "Since we wrote a yarn about how opening OpenOffice was slower than a Lada full of elephants going uphill, we have had a few tips from our readers as to how to speed it up. The changes are not difficult and do seem to have an effect. We can't be certain how much this will affect the functionality but we pass these ideas on."

As always, thanks OSNews for the links and interesting postings.

That would be the Slashdot way of doing it, but pretty much every other news site I visit goes by the same principle as OSNews. And as pointed out by a fellow little lower, OSNews has been doing this way since the very beggining(?). No need to change it now.

Don't worry about it Thom, I got your back. This is the way OSNews has been doing its stories for years. Since back in the Eugenia days. They always took the first paragraph of the article and put it up.

There are QUOTATION MARKS around the text. Are you blind?

That was unnecessary. Let the post get modded down (or up) as your readers see fit. If it gets modded down, it'll be invisible to most.

If you want to respond like that, don't hide behind your editor position. Create an account that people can vote on.

Thom,

What kind of journalist passes off quotation marks as credit to another writer? Hello, anyone home?!

- j

Obviously I know when someone commits plagiarism and when he doesn't. I've been attending university for quite a while now, so, surprise, I know what I'm talking about.

Justin, if you only want to visit websites that ie. use the APA 5th norms for creating and listing references, and that attach EndNote libraries for each newsitem posted-- than be my guest.

You'll have a hard time browsing the web.

You say I should use "The Inq writes...". In case you don't know, in the real academic world that's not a proper reference either-- no matter which of the literally hundreds (thousands?) of norms you follow.

HyperText inevitabily introduces a new form of referencing-- LINKING. The reference is IN THE LINK and that's more than a proper way of doing this. Have fun emailing all the involved, and please, see for yourself how the Inq handles references.

And to satisfy your obsession, here is the correct and complete reference for the article I linked to, using the APA norms, from the top of my head (so I may fcuk up spacing/punctuation, and due to the limitations of our commenting engine I cannot properly apply hanging indent either):

Farrel, N. (2005). How to speed up Open Office. Viewed 28-10-2005, http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27292.

You want the EndNote library too? In v7, v8 or v9 format?