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Re: The "Wikify" Tag
edit- Are there problems aside from the links issue, which I've tried to address?
In this edit, anonymous user 99.38.145.115 added the following to the article:
***Look, Professor Jowitt deserves much better than a plagiarized superficial biography of his life. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Ken_Jowitt. Someone please legitimately cover him.***
A quick look at http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Ken_Jowitt seemed to confirm the copyvio. I've placed a {{copyvio}} notice on the article, and reported it at Wikipedia:Copyright_problems/2009_April_19. -- Boracay Bill (talk) 08:35, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
There's plagiarism here all right, but you have it backwards. The Absolute Astronomy page is a copy of the wikipedia page, not the other way around. The proof of this is to go back to the original article as it appeared on wikipedia. The original wikipedia article has Francis Fukuyama's name correctly. This was then 'corrected' to Fukayama, which is wrong. The Absolute Astronomy includes this misspelling. Which is to say, the AA article includes a change made subsequent to the wikipedia article correctly. And what is more, it is an erroneous change; to believe this page was copied from Absolute Astronomy we would have to be willing to believe that it was copied, with the Fukuyama spelling and both were subsequently identically edited to incorporate the same mistake. This is absurd. The Absolute Astronomy article is clearly a plagiarism of the wikipedia article from sometime after the Fukuyama-to-Fukayama edit was made. Lots of websites steal content from wikipedia and copyright violation is a serious charge - please think a bit more carefully before throwing it around. 86.134.174.196 (talk) 07:07, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
- On the basis of that info, I've removed the {{copyvio}} designation. Note -- I didn't lay the charge, I reacted to the laying of the charge. -- Boracay Bill (talk) 03:56, 21 April 2009 (UTC)