Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for May 05, 2009
May 04, 2009
May 06, 2009
Transcript:
Teacher: Gracie, can you tell us about El Cinco De Mayo? Gracie: Of course. Gracie: The holiday commemorates the Mexican army's unlikely defeat of french forces at the battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of Mexican General Igancio Zargoza Seguin. Teacher: Gracie, that's exactly what wikipedia says! you can't plagiarize! Gracie: I'm not plagiarizing! Gracie: I wrote that entry.
oranaiche about 15 years ago
Go, Gracie!
margueritem about 15 years ago
I wouldn’t call repeating historical information plagiarizing. If that’s the case, the whole world plagiarizes.
Keith Messamer about 15 years ago
Repeating a historical account verbatim, rather than the information, is plagiarism, marg.
“If an author can’t plagiarize himself, whom can he plagiarize?” —Arthur C. Clarke
ejcapulet about 15 years ago
The fact that someone of that age was interested in history enough to look that up, memorize the facts, and then write an entry on it really should count for something. So, yes, dear, you CAN quote yourself.
Jaws2z about 15 years ago
If a child that age wrote the entry, it makes me wonder just how accurate the articles in Wikipedia really are.
green_engineer about 15 years ago
Authors still have to cite their own work.
Anyway, got to love Wiki, it’s a good first source for information. Just back up what you’ve read with more reliable sources.
carmy about 15 years ago
Thank you explaining that Gracie. Many people believe that today is Mexican Independence Day, and that is incorrect. Mexican Independence Day is on September 16th.
prasrinivara about 15 years ago
On the nail, green-engineer–since Wiki is “open editable”, I have made more than a few corrections (grammar, context, consistency…).
bald about 15 years ago
Have a Happy Cinco de Mayo everyone
johnnydoc5 about 15 years ago
Fantastic! The teacher has to verify what the student says with wikipedia.
Wildmustang1262 about 15 years ago
More likely, Gracie plagiarized the information from the google via the Internet. LOLs!
carmy says: Thank you explaining that Gracie. Many people believe that today is Mexican Independence Day, and that is incorrect. Mexican Independence Day is on September 16th Carmy, I think Cinco de Mayo celebrated after Mexican and French battled in the war. ?;-/ (the question mark is above my head.) Mexican Independence Day on Sept 16th was that they wanted to disconnect from Spain. I just checked the information from the google via the Internet. Here is the link; http://www.inside-mexico.com/featureindep.htm
prasrinivara about 15 years ago
For Wildmustang1262, 1810/09/16 was the day that Father Hidalgo called for severance from Spain–which only recognised that they had lost Mexico only on 1821/09/27 (technically, the latter could be considered Mexican Independence Day, but see below).
An analogous situation is that of Bangladesh, whose people (after winning an election, which was suppressed) declared themselves severed from Pakistan on 1971/03/26–Bangladesh official Independence Day is commemorated on 03/26 each year, despite of actual liberation from Pakistan’s misrule only being achieved 1971/12/16 (which is termed “Liberation Day” in Bangladesh).
atajayhawk about 15 years ago
Interestingly, the French Foreign Legion is also supposed to claim Puebla as a battle honor, because they fought well. Not very often that both sides claim a battle as an honor.
Ironhold about 1 year ago
2023.
Due to a variety of laws in place around the world, most websites do not allow anyone younger than 13 to register and will eject anyone who tries.
I don’t think she’d be writing articles anymore.