Bob wrote:
I was reading Scott Burnside's article, http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/preview2005/news/story?id=2172427 about top NHL rivalries, and I discovered that some passages appear to have been directly lifted or slightly edited from The Sporting News and Wikipedia articles. Who do I contact to address these concerns?
I tend not to worry about it too much, it just shows that Wikipedia is very much the quick-research option for pressured journalists ;-) You might email him thanking him for a nice article, and that you're pleased Wikipedia is reliable enough for him to use as a research tool, and asking if he can include links to the source articles in future as that would be very helpful to a reader. i.e. gently let him know you've spotted his source ;-)
- d.