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Originally Posted by maniactive
Of course it's a bad thing!
You admittedly know nothing about lawn mowers, yet you're presenting yourself as an expert on lawn mowers.
Further, you have no way of discerning whether the articles you scrape together represent accurate or useful information.
This practice is deceitful. And dishonest.
Those are what we call "Bad Qualities."
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I hope you're not using wikipedia for anything at any time... No one cares or knows how much the author / editor knows, as long as they can cite a source. And who even checks the sources to see if what they said accurately came from the source they cited. Granted, the information in wikipedia can be correct, and sometimes not, if higher-up editors are diligent on a good day...
However, the principle itself of passing along information that one just researched, or passing along an entire article that attributes the author and doesn't steal credit -- it's a win-win situation for everyone.