On 8/17/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
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...
At the very least they could say "[Taken from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature]". While not anywhere near enough for GDFL compliance, it's still much better than nothing.
How is it better than nothing? Wikipedia didn't write the text, a person did.