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8. When you quote a source, you should indicate it and link to it. Which you didn't do. When you leave

out something from a quoted excerpt, you should indicate a portion was left out, with something like -snip- or ....

When you decide to add something, it's unethical to add it as if it's part of what you're quoting. You don't get to rewrite a Wikipedia excerpt because you wish they'd left out something and instead include something you wish had been there, like the sentence about McGuinn you decided to insert in place of a sentence about the priest who played such a key role in the group's history.

Because you didn't handle that quote properly - altered it and didn't provide a link - and because chatbots are notorious for ripping off Wikipedia while stealing traffic from it, I wondered if you got what you posted from a chatbot. You've referred to AI here before:

OMG, Google's AI Overview just told me this:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220462609

So I asked, because what you'd posted - that altered quote not identified as a quote - looked so odd.

You'd given me plenty of reason to ask about it. Which I'd already explained.