November 23rd, 2007Watch What You Wiki
It’s tempting to lift stuff straight from the web and claim it as your own but apart from being incredibly lazy, you can be sure your sins will find your out. A book called ‘Black Gold, The New Frontier’ by George Orwel (no, not that one) was discovered to contain several paragraphs pinched almost word for word from Wikipedia, according to a report in CNet News. The Wikipedia article’s author discovered it; the book publisher’s response was that the passages were added to the book by accident and they’ve undertaken to provide correction and attributions in future reprints. Read the rest of this entry »




