Comments on: someone is copying someone, and it’s all pretty gross

By: Mark Florian

Mark Florian — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:13:57 +0000

From the bottom of every Wikipedia page:

“All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.” Also, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights :

“Wikipedia content can be copied, modified, and redistributed so long as the new version grants the same freedoms to others and acknowledges the authors of the Wikipedia article used (a direct link back to the article satisfies our author credit requirement)”

I doubt ABC are licensing their article in such a way, and I believe there’s no link to Wikipedia. Such ‘journalists’ are a waste of space.

By: Violet/Riga

Violet/Riga — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:34:08 +0000

It wasn’t actually me that wrote it, it was a user called Emperorbma. I’ve written the history of that piece of text at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Parasitic_twin

By: Douglas Jardine

Douglas Jardine — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:57:33 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Violetriga#Fetus_in_Fetu

Violetriga given reference to this page.

By: Douglas Jardine

Douglas Jardine — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:51:22 +0000

I’ve made the same error again — seen the ‘reversion’ from blanking to a previous article as the ‘origin’ of the paragraph.

sorry.

RICHARD had it right, above:

# Richard Says:
August 23rd, 2006 at 1:56 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Violetriga
Wikipedia user Violetriga wrote most of the copied content in September, 2004, and the umbilical cord part was added later.

By: Douglas Jardine

Douglas Jardine — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:48:02 +0000

Comment to JfdWolff, Wikipedia editor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jfdwolff#ABC_News_Copies_your_Paragraph_on_F.C5.93tus_in_F.C5.93tu_without_Attribution

Original text is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Parasitic_twin&diff=next&oldid=5941720

2004-09-17 10:52:58

By: Daniel Beck

Daniel Beck — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:56:47 +0000

I think they have all read “The Dark Half” from Stephen King :-).
In it, a guy named Thad had a twin. The unborn brother was absorbed into Thad in utero and later removed from his skull when the author was a child. Then, in some way…

Oh no, I can not tell you the rest. Read it your self ;-)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451167317/sr=8-1/qid=1156362964/ref=sr_1_1/102-2977538-1418523?ie=UTF8

By: Douglas Jardine

Douglas Jardine — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:54:21 +0000

Previous post in error.

Original author of Foetus in Foetu paragraph is JfdWolff.

2005-03-31T12:58:52

By: Douglas Jardine

Douglas Jardine — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:33:10 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Keenan_Pepper#ABCNews_appears_to_have_copied_you_today_.2823rd_August_2006.29

Brought to the attention of Keenan Pepper, Wikipedia author, whose edit dates from 2005-12-04 20:27:06 (EST? / UTC ?), many months before the ABC article dated 23rd August 2006.

By: no one in particular

no one in particular — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:00:51 +0000

If you look at this edit you see an anonymous wikipedian adding a few words to the middle of that already-existing sentence (those same few words were copied into the ABC article). So it seems likely that the wikipedia paragraph is an original and not just copied from the same source.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:56:17 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Violetriga
Wikipedia user Violetriga wrote most of the copied content in September, 2004, and the umbilical cord part was added later.