On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 11:05:05 -0400, Maury Markowitz wrote: They are a known annoyance [1] and under investigation at some WP page that I for some reason can't get access to right now. Roger [1] We had several WP pages mistakenly reported as copyvios based on biography.ms.

It seems this is solvable though, if Google could simply read the attribution links. Of course in this particular case it wouldn't work, because biography.ms has scraped them off, but in general it should world well. I'll write them.

Funny that you mention it. Yesterday, I was looking for an old pdf version of Donella Meadows work. Had a hard time finding it because all what was on the net about her was copies of the wikipedia articles (mine in good part, so this was not what I was looking for). One of the most proeminent copy was precisely this website. It was also one of the first time I regretted articles existed in wikipedia... because I could not find the original paper I was looking for, because the web was so much infested by the wikipedia articles... I suddently regretted Google was not able to distinguish that all the articles were the same, and hidding other articles which are unique, but simply less visible. I actually wonder if this is not a bit problematic. It looks as if the search system was not able to handle this properly any more. Ant PS : I must not forget to add the pdf link to the article so I can find it next time. Maury Markowitz a écrit: _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

Funny that you mention it. Yesterday, I was looking for an old pdf version of Donella Meadows work. Had a hard time finding it because all what was on the net about her was copies of the wikipedia articles (mine in good part, so this was not what I was looking for). One of the most proeminent copy was precisely this website. It was also one of the first time I regretted articles existed in wikipedia... because I could not find the original paper I was looking for, because the web was so much infested by the wikipedia articles... I suddently regretted Google was not able to distinguish that all the articles were the same, and hidding other articles which are unique, but simply less visible. I actually wonder if this is not a bit problematic. It looks as if the search system was not able to handle this properly any more. Ant

/me is astonished. I just did not *think* of adding the "pdf" in the search area. This is perfect. Thanks :-)