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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>BTW could <A
href="http://www.nationmaster.com">www.nationmaster.com</A> use a larger font
for wikipedia license info ?</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=rubenste@ohiou.edu href="mailto:rubenste@ohiou.edu">steven l.
rubenstein</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=wikien-l@Wikipedia.org
href="mailto:wikien-l@Wikipedia.org">wikien-l@Wikipedia.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 21, 2003 7:43
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [WikiEN-l] possible
plagiarism</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I have been removing text to talk, generally concerning the
Ottoman Empire (articles on the Ottoman Triumvirate, Suleiman the Magnificent,
Ormus, etc.). These seem to be plagiarized from <A
href="http://www.nationmaster.com" eudora="autourl">WWW.nationmaster.com</A>,
which <BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">holds copyright on all aspects of
this site (including but not limited to content and layout), with the
exception of the text from articles taken from <FONT
color=#0000ff><U>Wikipedia</U></FONT> and where copyrights are held by our
sources</BLOCKQUOTE>Before I remove any more text to talk, I'd appreciate it
if someone can check this for me. As far as I can tell, the text in the
nationmaster encyclopedia is not attributed to Wikipedia, so I have assumed
that one of our contributors has been copying from them, rather than vice
versa. But I'd appreciate it if someone else can look into this further
before I make any more changes,<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR><BR>Steve<BR><BR><X-SIGSEP>
<P></X-SIGSEP>Steven L. Rubenstein<BR>Associate Professor<BR>Department of
Sociology and Anthropology<BR>Bentley Annex<BR>Ohio University<BR>Athens, Ohio
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