[WikiEN-l] Copyvio since 2004

[Brock Weller]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#X_for_Dummies_fork

In the process of investigating a quirky article for unrelated reasons, it
popped up that massive swaths of text in [[Introduction to M-theory]] were
copied verbatim and near-verbatim (rearranged) from the book 'The Turn of
the Century'. This happened at least twice, in this edit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Introduction_to_M-theory&diff=2467832&oldid=2467817
And more was introduced later with the 'What does M stand for?' section.
This has stood for 8 years in a massive article with plenty of attention,
yet should've raised red flags all over the place (as said its a massive
article, yet it has no sources cited.

How can we protect against these things?

-- 
-Brock