[Wikipedia-l] Re: www.biography.ms is illegally using Wikipedia content

Puddl Duk puddlduk at gmail.com
Thu Jun 9 17:00:59 UTC 2005


On 6/7/05, Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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 

Google search string;

"Donella Meadows" pdf  -wikipedia



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