Oops, sorry for the crappy formatting on the previous message (note the stuff below the quoted excerpt from Steven).
This incident shows that nationmaster is acting in slightly bad faith when they make it look obvious that it is their content (even to people active in wikipedia). Good faith in my opinion would have a short sentence infront of the article explaining that this is not actually their work. Oh well.
Best, Sascha Noyes aka snoyes
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 03:57 pm, Sascha Noyes wrote:
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 01:43 pm, steven l. rubenstein wrote:
Before I remove any more text to talk, I'd appreciate it if someone can check this for me. As far as I can tell, the text in the nationmaster encyclopedia is not attributed to Wikipedia, so I have assumed that one of our contributors has been copying from them, rather than vice versa. But I'd appreciate it if someone else can look into this further before I make any more changes,
Thanks,
Steve
Have a look at the notice on the bottom right-hand corner on this page:
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Ottoman-Triumvirate
It says that "The Wikipedia article included on this page is licensed under the GFDL", meaning that the article is from wikipedia.
Best, Sascha Noyes aka snoyes