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Saturday, January 21, 2012

On the Use of Wikipedia By way of The Register, London -- Fact check, please

Info courtesy: "A Message from Wikipedia founder Pope Benedict XIII," Computerworld 28:1 (December 2011 / January 2012), 26; itworldcanada.com

Extract:

Did Vatican commit Cardinal sin over Wikipedia bios?

Murder, adultery, asses... nothing here about plagiarism though
The Vatican has once again declared "blessed are the freetards" by justifying the appointment of 22 new cardinals with a raft of backup material culled from Wikipedia.
The Holy See's press department not only lifted biographical details on the latest crop of "princes of the Church" from the online fact bazaar for a press release, but didn't even bother to name the source, and simply reproduced them verbatim, The Daily Telegraph reports.

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