PathfinderWiki talk:Plagiarism

I understand your Plagiarism policy, but my question is this.

According to the Paizo Publishing, LLC Community Use Policy, you are allowed to use the text or artwork published in the Paizo Blog. Much of the blog is a very good description of places, people, events, etc., Is it against your plagiarism policy to use word for word text from the Paizo blog? Dragnmoon 10:11, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Many of the early articles are directly from the blog, and we haven't really discussed this one way or the other. once we obtain the actual books the blog is written from we usually try to go back and edit the direct blog articles, as 1) some of the blogs are written before final editing is done, and some things might change. and 2)Its confusing enough to some people that they can't copy right out of the book, they would never understand that they can copy righto out of the blog. - Cpt kirstov 11:55, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

As the good captain says, it is a confusing spot. To date we have copy/pasted directly from the blog quite often. When this info is comprises an entire article, I usually try to change a little bit here or there to make it less a direct c/p, but legally it's not necessary. If it's part of a larger article, I usually try to divide the quote up into the subsections where its components belong. I think we could clarify the plagiarism policy to include permission to copy/paste directly from the blog given Paizo's granting of such, but we would need to stipulate that correct citation of that blog entry would be a necessity. Also, welcome to the Wiki! -- yoda8myhead 15:51, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Quotes from in-universe characters

How should one avoid plagiarism when using quote from an in-universe character? I.e. I'd love to include a quote from Seeker of Secrets in the Pathfinder article: "To be a Pathfinder is to give up all sense of home, to marry yourself to the road and let your words be your children..." —Pathfinder Jaroven Kesk

Is that allowable? Should the content of the quote be re-phrased as regular article content? "Some pathfinders say that to be a pathfinder means to marry the road..." Should only part of the quote be used? --Capt pantsless 15:08, April 16, 2010 (UTC)

There is {{Quote}}, which you can use to quote short sections of in-world-attributable text to an article. As long as we're not doing so for every bit of in-character flavor text in every book, I don't see it as a problem. We're likely to have memorable quotes once the fiction line kicks off, as well, so no point avoiding it. I'd keep quotes at the top of articles for layout reasons, though. —yoda8myhead 15:59, April 16, 2010 (UTC)

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Added {{Plagiarism}} as an option to flag an article for violations of this policy and to categorize flagged articles into Category:PathfinderWiki maintenance for administrative attention. -Oznogon (talk) 00:56, 15 October 2019 (UTC)