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|source={{cite journal | last=Whitty | first=Monica T. | last2=Buchanan | first2=Tom | title=The online dating romance scam: The psychological impact on victims – both financial and non-financial | journal=Criminology & Criminal Justice | publisher=[[Sage Publishing|Sage]] | volume=16 | issue=2 | date=3 September 2015 | issn=1748-8958 | doi=10.1177/1748895815603773 | pages=176–194 | url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=2c5f26ef5bb746d64ca84842281fb83c3f00e2f2}}
|authorship-date=between January-June 2013
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The most recently published works cited in {{harvtxt|Whitty|Buchanan|2015}}:
* {{cite report | author=National Fraud Authority | date=6 June 2013 | title=Annual fraud indicator | publication-place=London | publisher=Author | url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-fraud-indicator--2 <!-- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c7507ed915d6969f45001/nfa-annual-fraud-indicator-2013.pdf -->}}
* {{cite journal | last=Whitty | first=Monica T. | date=4 April 2013 | title=The Scammers Persuasive Techniques Model: Development of a stage model to explain the online dating romance scam | journal=British Journal of Criminology | publisher=Oxford University Press | volume=53 | issue=4 | issn=0007-0955 | doi=10.1093/bjc/azt009 | doi-access=free | pages=665–684}}
* {{cite journal | last=Buchanan | first=Tom | last2=Whitty | first2=Monica T. | date=28 March 2013 | title=The online dating romance scam: Causes and consequences of victimhood | journal=Psychology, Crime & Law | publisher=Informa UK | volume=20 | issue=3 | issn=1068-316X | doi=10.1080/1068316x.2013.772180 | doi-access=free | pages=261–283}}
This work was cited as "in press" in {{harvtxt|Whitty|Buchanan|2015}}:
* {{cite journal | last=Whitty | first=Monica T. | title=Anatomy of the online dating romance scam | journal=Security Journal | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | volume=28 | issue=4 | date=11 February 2013 | issn=0955-1662 | doi=10.1057/sj.2012.57 | doi-access=free | pages=443–455}}
|description={{harvtxt|Whitty|Buchanan|2015|p=15}} seems to be based on a version of our article after this [[Special:Diff/457597716|26 October 2011 revision]].
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| The following source may be dependent on Wikipedia for its information, and should be avoided or carefully scrutinized when used as a source to prevent circular referencing:
The source was probably written between January-June 2013
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Notify editors in an article talk page that a source is dependent on Wikipedia to prevent circular references.
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| Boolean | optional |
| Source | source | A citation, possibly using a citation template. | Content | required |
| Date of writing or creation | authorship-date | A free-form date describing when the source was written or created. This is often useful to determine which revision of Wikipedia it might be based on.
| Line | suggested |
| Date of authorship certain? | authorship-date-certain | Is the date of authorship certain? If not, it is described as probable.
| Boolean | optional |
| Source is textual? | text-source | Is the source a text that was written? If not, it will be described as being "created" rather than "written".
| Boolean | optional |
| Authorship date explanation | authorship-date-explanation | Evidence to support the date of writing or creation provided. | Content | suggested |
| Description | description | Description of the similarities between the source and specific Wikipedia articles and evidence of dependence. | Content | suggested |
See also
edit- {{Backwards copy}}, for when a Wikipedia is copied by another work and the Wikipedia article might be incorrectly regarded as a copyright violation of the other work.