possible plagiarism - WikiEN-l

21 Oct 2003

I have been removing text to talk, generally concerning the Ottoman Empire 
(articles on the Ottoman Triumvirate, Suleiman the Magnificent, Ormus, 
etc.).  These seem to be plagiarized from  WWW.nationmaster.com, which
...
 holds copyright on all aspects of this site (including
but not limited to 
content and layout), with the exception of the text from articles taken 
from Wikipedia and where copyrights are held by our sources Before I remove any more
text to talk, I'd appreciate it if someone can 
check this for me.  As far as I can tell, the text in the nationmaster 
encyclopedia is not attributed to Wikipedia, so I have assumed that one of 
our contributors has been copying from them, rather than vice versa.  But 
I'd appreciate it if someone else can look into this further before I make 
any more changes,

Thanks,

Steve

Steven L. Rubenstein
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Bentley Annex
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio 45701

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