[WikiEN-l] 1995 bio still the Wikipedia on Warren

[Daniel R. Tobias]

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=1208&u_sid=10325513

This article uses the headline "1995 bio still the Wikipedia on 
Warren", but isn't actually about Wikipedia in any way; it's 
apparently regarding "Wikipedia" as a generic term for a "source to 
check dates, names and events".  While this is a much more positive 
thing than if "Wikipedia" were being used as a generic term for "an 
unreliable source that can be screwed up by any idiot on the street" 
as some of the critics would be likely to do, it still possibly poses 
a threat to the Wikipedia trademark; just like Google's lawyers are 
concerned about the widespread use of "googling" especially if it 
threatens to become a term for online searching even when the Google 
brand search engine is not used, it could cause 'genericide' of the 
WP trademark if (as I've seen in other places occasionally) 
"wikipedia" becomes a common term for reference sources and online 
projects of various sorts, like "the wikipedia of baseball 
statistics".





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