In the news on the English Wikipedia, Eli Manning was named most valuable player for Super Bowl XLVI. TMZ.com, a top 500 website and one of the most popular gossip websites in the world[1], is using English Wikipedia content without license or attribution for almost all of its immense biography database.

A simple rundown using some random Super Bowl related bios, no inline citations for referential comparisons and I don't have the time to find the exact diff, but they exist:

American football players:

*Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Manning *TMZ: http://www.tmz.com/person/eli-manning/

*Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Brady *TMZ: http://www.tmz.com/person/tom-brady/

*Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Welker *TMZ: http://www.tmz.com/person/wes-welker/

Madonna was the halftime show. *Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_(entertainer) *TMZ: http://www.tmz.com/person/Madonna/

Kelly Clarkson sang the American national anthem:

*Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Clarkson *TMZ: http://www.tmz.com/person/kelly-clarkson/

At the bottom of every single TMZ biography, I'm certain of which almost all are ripped from Wikipedia, is this:

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