I followed this students paper for format and rewrote ideas for background information but cited the original source. There is 9% similarity on turnitin, but I also took the project from him and so at least cited him in material and methods but I am just worried if I will get in trouble.
25% similarity overall including references with most of the references taken from his paper. I couldn't find a good source and was having trouble expanding on the information.
I think 9% is okay, excluding references, but check the criteria
One may have similarity of 25 percent and still be fine, one may have a 5 percent similarity and it might not be fine. The problem is not the percentage. If one uses many citations the similarity percent will be high or very high, but as long as those citations are correctly represented with the source, then there is no problem. No two minds are alike, if there are to the same sentences in two works without proper representation of the source, that is an ethical problem. One sentence or ten sentences, a stolen sentence is a stolen sentence.
Change the references, that is bad to have similar references. If you look carefully , it is not hard to find similar references.
Does the student know that he "inspired" your paper? Did you read the papers that you included in the references? Literature searches are not difficult so get the papers and read them. Then use them to expand your own research.
Regardless of the level of plagiarism, you seem to be worried about the ethics - or at least getting into trouble - so don't do it.
Perhaps you two could co-author the paper. Sounds like he did a lot of your work.
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