You can tell it's from Wikipedia by looking at the versions of the article from before Kober rewrote it (an excellent rewrite, btw): old: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Georgia_(country)&oldid=213907... newer: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Georgia_(country)&oldid=213908...
I wonder how many professors would accept the "same facts" excuse the McCain campaign gave.
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Oskar Sigvardsson < oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:26 AM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Not convinced. First extract too short and the second has very different wording and the common structure is a time line that doesn't mean much.
I mostly agree, but the fact that some phrases are completely identical in the second quote ("brief period of independence", "regained its independence", "economic crisis") makes me think that his writers at the very least got the information from wikipedia and rewrote it slightly. But I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Everyone (including presidential candidates and their writers) has to look up stuff from time to time. Whether it's from Britannica, Wikipedia or "Georgian History for Dummies!" is really not that big of a deal.
--Oskar
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