Mr. Merkey, you just may have what it takes to win a free box of cookies
from Greg Maxwell.
On 10/23/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/23/06, Tomasz Wegrzanowski <tomasz.wegrzanowski(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Brandt is nothing more than a troll.
Any genuine anti-plagiarism bot would at least look
at article histories whether the allegedly "plagiarized" part
was added at once (possible plagiarism) or build step by
step (definitely plagiarism the other way). The trollbot
doesn't do that because it's not interested in truth, just
in building an impresive list of mostly false cases to
attract attention.
[snip]
No need for emotion. When he is helpful (intentionally or otherwise)
we should take his help, when he is not we should ignore him.
Having a bot check the history isn't so trivial, in any case.
More on topic: A box of cookies for whomever ports the recent enwiki
automated detection advances (wherebot for example) to some of the
other languages which may currently be getting less oversight.
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