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Originally Posted by 4X4
What if the student was the one that wrote the Wiki article? Would they have to cite themselves as the source?
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You raise an interesting point--though wiki may be a bad example, because wikipedia articles don't have authors in a conventional sense. But as a matter of fact, it is possible to plagiarize work that you did yourself--for instance, by using a paper that you wrote for one class to satisfy the requirements of another.
Let's say you receive an assignment next week. You decide that the article you wrote for The New Yorker would be a good substitute for a paper. Is that plagiarism--well, technically yes. And if you use that article as a source, you still must cite it properly, even though it's your own work.