[WikiEN-l] Our content gets *everywhere*

[Arwel Parry]

About a month ago I was reading the report of the Commission looking into 
the future of British railway pensions (an obscure subject, but of interest 
to me as I'm a deferred pensioner!), when round about page 60 I noticed a 
couple of paragraphs which looked distinctly familiar (since I wrote them), 
which explained some of the history of railway privatisation and its effects 
on the railway pension scheme, which came from an old version of 
[[Privatisation of British Rail]]. That particular wording isn't in the 
current version of the article, however.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Kirk" <gary.kirk at gmail.com>
To: <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk>; "English Wikipedia" 
<wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Our content gets *everywhere*


>I was reading the programme for a theatre show once and as I'd been
> reading our entry for one of the performers an hour or so before I
> instantly recognised the text of their profile in it :).
>
> On 8/17/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It worries me a little that I can spot Wikipedia text a mile off - our
>> house style isn't that obvious, is it? - but it seems to be one of
>> those little skills you pick up after a while. Very useful for marking
>> school essays, I'm sure.
>>
>> Anyhow, I was packing up some boxes today, and happened across the box
>> for the Nokia 770 (a really useful little bit of kit, incidentally),
>> which shows someone merrily using the device to chatter away to a
>> friend on an instant messenger. For some reason, the friend is writing
>> something to them about poetry.
>>
>> I looked at the sentence. Something went click.
>>
>> "Kim: A poem is a composition usually written in verse. Poems rely
>> heavily on imagery, precise word choice, and metaphor, may be written
>> in measures consisting of" [...]
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Literature&oldid=3562677
>>
>> I'm used to seeing our content reused all over the place, but somehow
>> I didn't expect to see fragments used as lorem-ipsum filler on a box
>> cover...
>>
>> --
>> - Andrew Gray
>>   andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
> -- 
> Gary Kirk

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Arwel Parry