[Foundation-l] Allegations of Wikipedia plagurism by Brandt/Websites he has stirred up sending nasty notices

Mon Oct 23 18:31:35 UTC 2006

On 10/23/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/23/06, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I picked two at random - I can't get to his info page on [[John Glover
> > (general)]], and the info on the [[Julius L. Meier]] page does at first
> > glance seem a copyvio, but someone seems to have nuked the WP page
> > recently.  The text Brandt cites seems to be consistent with Google's
> cache.
> >
> > Can someone with an admin bit inform us who's deleting these articles
> (or if
> > that was the only one, that one...)?
>
> Me to a large extent with help from W.marsh.
>
> We sorted this out last night:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AN#Plagiarism_Detector_Bot
>
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Are you sure that the removals were appropriate?  On first inspection,
several of them seemed to be relatively minor and repairable plagarism.

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-george william herbert
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