Comment on Is the Editor of the Springer Journal Scientometrics indifferent to plagiarism? by Bill White

Who puts those “rules”? And, are they infallible, perfect “rules”? If you cite a person, you should cite him/her as faithfully as possible. Otherwise, we risk to deform his/her intention.
Successive citations or multiple paraphrases may end by loosing the original meaning after X times of citations.
“A sacred text should be cited as is”! If academic works are not as important as scientists declare, then, OK, citations could be in any form…! We would end with ignoring who and how an original idea was said…
Anyway, this is a long debatable question…