blogs.cqpolitics.com — A Wikipedia editor notices some similarities between Sen. John McCain's speech today on the crisis in Georgia and the Wikipedia article on the country Georgia. They appear similar enough that most people would consider parts of McCain's speech to be derived directly from Wikipedia.
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happyscrappyAug 11, 2008
You can't plagiarize from Wikipedia. The info on there (even the wrong info) is released under the GNU Free Documentation License. He could repeat it verbatim and it wouldn't be plagiarism.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the ...</a>
greenbacksAug 12, 2008
his chimp did it for him!
trogdoorAug 12, 2008
Obviously there is more to plagiarism than unauthorised use, namely presenting something as an original work when it is in fact not, otherwise there could be no such thing as self-plagiarism.
macinfloydvolkAug 12, 2008
Here we friggin' go AGAIN! WIKIPEDIA IS OPEN AND FREE YOU CANNOT PLAGIARIZE THAT! AND STOP SUBMITTING THE SAME LAME STORIES HELL STOP SUBMITTING THE SAME STORIES AT ALL! THIS IS THE THIRD FRIGGIN ONE!
phylodomeAug 16, 2008
If you could interpret English correctly you'd know that my statement could just as easily refer to how dumb our nation is. There's absolutely no information in my comment that pigeonholes my reference to the aspect you have cherry-picked, but feel free to keep on evangelizing about things we are all quite aware of.