On 17/08/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
OMG COPYRIGHT
INFRINGEMENT
:p
Don't joke, that *is* copyright infringement. I can't see how
lorem-ipsum text would qualify as fair use, and I very much doubt the
Nokia 770 box is GDFL. While I have no real problem with people using
our content in such a way, it would be nice if they would do so
properly (at least giving credit).
It's a sentence and a half of essentially unremarkable text with no
easily identifiable author or significance. Good luck sorting out who
they ought to credit...
On a lighter note, I know exactly what you mean about
being able to
spot Wikipedia text a mile off. I find the best clues are the words
"neologism" and "portmanteau", I've never seen them used
anywhere
else, but one of them is in the first sentence of pretty much every
Wikipedia article.
Yeah, our first sentences are the easy bits. "PAGENAME is an
(adjective) noun, contextual-phrase other noun"; restate the topic in
a really simple way.
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- Andrew Gray
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