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:
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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:26 AM, geni
<geniice(a)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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