johnuniq logic and truth has nothing to do with democratie or how many person say that it is a copyright violation or plagiarism again wikipedia plagiarism states that plagiarism is the incorporation of someone else's work without providing adequate credit while the terms are often confused plagiarism and copyright infringement are not the same thing copyright infringement occurs when copyrighted content is used without permission in a way that violates the copyright holder's exclusive right adequate credit does not efface infringement similarly public domain content is plagiarized if used without acknowledging the source even though there is no copyright issue this guideline addresses when copying and close paraphrasing may not be a problem how to avoid plagiarism when there is a risk and how to address it when it is encountered citation wikipedia copyright issues stats that however material copied from sources that are not public domain or compatibly licensed without the permission of the copyright holder unless brief quotation used in accordance with non free content policy and guideline is likely to be a copyright violation even inserting text copied with some changes can be a copyright violation if there's substantial linguistic similarity in creative language or structure this can also raise problems of plagiarism such a situation should be treated seriously as copyright violations not only harm wikipedia's redistributability but also create legal issues citation both is not given just because there are concerning article passage doens't mean that they fall under such a categorie i heard more times that plagiarism and copyright violation are very serious issues if they are so serious then why in years of existence of the article has been never such an accusation there