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Why can't I copy text from other websites in quizzes?

Funtrivia takes the issue of plagiarism very seriously.

Why? First, it's illegal. Next, it's immoral.

Imagine if you went to a lot of work to create a FunTrivia quiz and suddenly another website stole it from FunTrivia and some guy named Freddy claimed that it was his own? You'd be rightly angry! It's just wrong to copy the work of other people and call it your own.

We do not allow content to be copied and pasted from any source, INCLUDING websites such as wikipedia that do have liberal copyright arrangements. The reason is that there is no guarantee that Wikipedia's content is original or plagiarism-free. If someone copied your quiz into Wikipedia and then another website used it because it was in Wikipedia that does not make it okay!

What you need to do is write every single word in your quiz yourself. By all means you may use sources such as Wikipedia to get or verify information in the course of researching your quiz, but you must put what you learn in your own words.

Plagiarism is the number one reason that authors lose their quiz authoring abilities on FunTrivia. Please avoid this fate!