Since so many people will be hurt or killed by Trumpism. quote

He is trying to bring an end to a war.

and

I am in favour of stopping wars, and Trump may be doing this for the wrong reason, but when he does something I believe is right., THEN GIVE CREDIT AS YOU WOULD TO ANYBODY ELSE

Dick, Trump isn't ending a war, he's trying to 1) curry favor with Putin and 2) extort Ukraine to give him mineral rights, and in the end it looks like Trump and Putin are trying to carve up Ukraine. No props to anyone for that terrible move. No credit earned or deserved.

Athelric, on Mudcat we often quote from journal articles that are then linked to. Someone wrote something on Facebook that you did a very large copy/paste here. I did a search and found that Hugh Delehanty posted the remarks from Peter N. Bouckaert. You need to cite your sources.

We've gotten a bit sloppy here about following the unwritten (though it may be written, someone can check the FAQs) rule that posts should stick to one screen and should be linked and always attributed. When it comes to copyright material from publications a sample quote and a link to the original is the acceptable method of sharing. It keeps websites out of trouble by using the "fair use" approach.*

I will note to everyone here - we all need to pull back a bit on the lengthy posts. Read it yourself and quote the most important part, don't just dump the whole thing in here. We're not Facebook, we're a music site with a BS section and this is an important discussion but the long-form essays can stay on their own sites and be referred to here. What Aethelric should have done is go to the referring post (Delehanty) and click on the timestamp of that post; that will take you to the lone post and a heckuva long link. When we post links here we try not to fill the screen with them, but for those who only use the "blue clicky" or "blickfier" as some refer to it, it doesn't manage long links well. I like Bitly for shortening links that then can be posted here: for example, that Facebook post).


* The only exception to this is when sharing obituaries of musical folks that apply to Mudcat, because sometimes those sites disappear and we want to preserve the information.