Stop quoting an entire article from newspapers/websites

[Animo]

The Philippine forum shall implement the following guidelines on posting news and articles.

For posting any news or any articles:

- One must cite the source and to contribute the link of the online URL. The news that do not contain any sources or any URLs will be erased without prior notice.

- It will suffice with putting the title and a brief statement of the news or with a pair of paragraphs.

-The content will go inside the labels of appointment [quote] [ / (end) quote]

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Skyscrapercity Administrators and Moderators have the complete authorization to implement this rule and any violators will be given a fair warning.

[hakz2007]

Addendum:

Originally Posted by DaiTengu

It's fine to post a paragraph or two from an article, and then a link to the complete thing. That falls under "fair use" Posting five paragraphs is a bit much. Posting the entire thing is bad.

Word needs to be spread all over the site about this so that no one can complain that they "didn't know"