[WikiEN-l] Slashdot: Book plagarized Wikipedia

[George Herbert]

Up on slashdot:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/13/0356203

Referencing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ydorb/khobar-copyvio

On first glance, the claim appears valid; User Ydorb wrote the material in
question before the book came out, there's a clear copying of the material,
etc.

Ydorb says he's public-domained most of his contributions, but rightly
points out that other WP contributors were involved in the apparently
plagarized version, and that the WP GFDL sharing license would require
attribution anyways.


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-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com