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It is inevitable that there will be overlap between Health.SE and Biology.SE, and as a member of Biology, that is absolutely fine with me. This questionThis question is answered with an attributed answer from Biology.SE (and an additional resource was added as well.)

My questions:

  1. Is importing an answer from another SE site acceptable? What if it is one's own answer? I have not seen this done before, and don't know the 'official' policy if there is one.

  2. On some SE sites, such as EL&U, unattributed sources are deleted on site for plagiarism. Will we have the same policy?

Two questions:

It is inevitable that there will be overlap between Health.SE and Biology.SE, and as a member of Biology, that is absolutely fine with me. This question is answered with an attributed answer from Biology.SE (and an additional resource was added as well.)

My questions:

  1. Is importing an answer from another SE site acceptable? What if it is one's own answer? I have not seen this done before, and don't know the 'official' policy if there is one.

  2. On some SE sites, such as EL&U, unattributed sources are deleted on site for plagiarism. Will we have the same policy?

Two questions:

It is inevitable that there will be overlap between Health.SE and Biology.SE, and as a member of Biology, that is absolutely fine with me. This question is answered with an attributed answer from Biology.SE (and an additional resource was added as well.)

My questions:

  1. Is importing an answer from another SE site acceptable? What if it is one's own answer? I have not seen this done before, and don't know the 'official' policy if there is one.

  2. On some SE sites, such as EL&U, unattributed sources are deleted on site for plagiarism. Will we have the same policy?

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Overlap, reliable sources, and attribution

Two questions:

It is inevitable that there will be overlap between Health.SE and Biology.SE, and as a member of Biology, that is absolutely fine with me. This question is answered with an attributed answer from Biology.SE (and an additional resource was added as well.)

My questions:

  1. Is importing an answer from another SE site acceptable? What if it is one's own answer? I have not seen this done before, and don't know the 'official' policy if there is one.

  2. On some SE sites, such as EL&U, unattributed sources are deleted on site for plagiarism. Will we have the same policy?