As you may have noticed, I often work pieces by others into my essays and poet's notes. Here's one example: https://marcus17043.medium.com/are-you-well-advised-to-follow-your-heart-dea0cbeb214b

A writer commented, "Thanks for the mention. I appreciate all you do to promote other writers."

I replied:

"It's a combination to varying degrees of on the one hand wanting to promote others and on the other hand, ethics, which are different than morals. I got in a row with a writer a couple of years ago when as an Illumination editor I was reviewing a story that I knew right away had borrowed from and germinated from something I had written a few days earlier. I didn't just suspect, I knew, because of the comment the writer had left in mine. When I suggested he might want to at least acknowledge that he decided to write his after reading mine, he threw a hissy fit, at first denying that he saw mine, and then making some statement about writers don't own ideas, and pulled the story and placed it elsewhere."

What that writer and many others do is "soft plagiarism." Patrick Paul Garlinger writes about that here https://medium.com/change-your-mind/the-unbearable-repetition-of-spiritual-writing-bbee67d53803 and a year later here https://writingcooperative.com/are-you-skipping-a-key-step-in-your-writing-a355eea85118 saying "But the absence of any nod to your fellow writers, driven by the need to churn out one piece after another, to get some meager payout at the end of the month, is tragic. It’s tragic because it suggests that certain core values of integrity and community are not being honored in our writing. Publications often spill a lot of electronic ink about supporting writers and building community. But if we aren’t honoring our respective contributions by citing them, what kind of community are we building?"