On 17/08/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
OMG COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
:p
Don't joke, that *is* copyright infringement. I can't see how lorem-ipsum text would qualify as fair use, and I very much doubt the Nokia 770 box is GDFL. While I have no real problem with people using our content in such a way, it would be nice if they would do so properly (at least giving credit).
It's a sentence and a half of essentially unremarkable text with no easily identifiable author or significance. Good luck sorting out who they ought to credit...
On a lighter note, I know exactly what you mean about being able to spot Wikipedia text a mile off. I find the best clues are the words "neologism" and "portmanteau", I've never seen them used anywhere else, but one of them is in the first sentence of pretty much every Wikipedia article.
Yeah, our first sentences are the easy bits. "PAGENAME is an (adjective) noun, contextual-phrase other noun"; restate the topic in a really simple way.