Board Thread:General Discussions/@comment-27050484-20170407091114/@comment-4820209-20170514162647

Scoobydooman90001 wrote: Isn't paraphrasing the Wikipedia page technically just plagiarism? Yeah, you're probably changing words around but surely when making a page, it should be made from the ground up? Quick note. No, plagiarism is taking someone else's work and passing it off as your own, not just using content in general. With how licenses work between Wikias and Wikipedia, you can use Wikipedia info word for word if you want, you just need to cite it/the list of authors present with it. There's even a specific template used for it. That's if you used information word for word, though.

Paraphrasing isn't that. You'd be altering content and twisting wording to be different while meaning the same thing. Given there're only so many ways to say X issue, it's far from plagiarism to do that.

May as well be called a plagiarist for using other's ideas in school essays, but conveying them in your own way.