jaylar
On another site, I wrote about the history of Jamaica. I mentioned when Columbus landed, where he landed, and when. The article was rejected for ‘plagiarism’. That is because I included these unchanging facts. There is no way to write a factual item without including the facts.
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When a publishing site uses crappy plag detectors, a factual item will always get flagged. This is because the writer can not change the facts. To be published, what I found myself doing was to avoid direct facts. Instead of saying 1494 I had to say; “In the late 1400s” and instead of writing ‘Discovery Bay’, wrote ‘on the North Coast of Jamaica’. The item was then passed and I felt… crummy.
I felt crummy because instead of giving a reader hard facts they could use, I gave them vagaries.
On a site which instituted one of these plag detectors, I had to go back and remove the quotes which substantiated my article. Simply put, if the leading experts on False Memory states; [and I post his exact words] despite my clear indication that this is an attributed quote, the item will be flagged.
Yes, there are sites where there are actual moderators, who may run a plag checker, and then see what is flagged, and make the decision that posting the attributed quote is NOT plagiarism, or including the actual facts is NOT plagiarism, by most sites run the checker and pray to it.
Sadly, I adopt a policy that when writing factual pieces I try to leave out as many facts as I can, and add remarks which cheapen the value, but at least get published.
I always run my writing to avoid even the appearance.
In many cases I will provide a quote with attribution to give my writing credence. I will use a ‘fair use’ image to explain.