About a month ago I was reading the report of the Commission looking into the future of British railway pensions (an obscure subject, but of interest to me as I'm a deferred pensioner!), when round about page 60 I noticed a couple of paragraphs which looked distinctly familiar (since I wrote them), which explained some of the history of railway privatisation and its effects on the railway pension scheme, which came from an old version of [[Privatisation of British Rail]]. That particular wording isn't in the current version of the article, however.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Kirk" gary.kirk@gmail.com To: andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk; "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Our content gets *everywhere*
I was reading the programme for a theatre show once and as I'd been reading our entry for one of the performers an hour or so before I instantly recognised the text of their profile in it :).
On 8/17/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
It worries me a little that I can spot Wikipedia text a mile off - our house style isn't that obvious, is it? - but it seems to be one of those little skills you pick up after a while. Very useful for marking school essays, I'm sure.
Anyhow, I was packing up some boxes today, and happened across the box for the Nokia 770 (a really useful little bit of kit, incidentally), which shows someone merrily using the device to chatter away to a friend on an instant messenger. For some reason, the friend is writing something to them about poetry.
I looked at the sentence. Something went click.
"Kim: A poem is a composition usually written in verse. Poems rely heavily on imagery, precise word choice, and metaphor, may be written in measures consisting of" [...]
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Literature&oldid=3562677
I'm used to seeing our content reused all over the place, but somehow I didn't expect to see fragments used as lorem-ipsum filler on a box cover...
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- Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
-- Gary Kirk