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If you go to the Wikipedia Article for Radium Girls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls - You'd see it's an e
by rootsudo 7y ago
If you go to the Wikipedia Article for Radium Girls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls - You'd see it's an exact mirror of much of the text that's reposted on theatlantic.com article.
- ajna91 7y agoI find this kind of thing quite often, and it always annoys me.
- djtriptych 7y agoWe should automate wiki-plagiarism checks.
- dehrmann 7y agoI did, and I searched for several random 4-6 word phrases in the Atlantic article from the Wikipedia one, and I didn't find anything making it obvious much of the content is an exact mirror.
- forgotmypwd123 7y agoIts lazily reworded, still plaigarism
- dehrmann 7y ago> ...an exact mirror... It might be lazily reworded, but hyperbole like that hurts the commenter's credibility and makes me less likely to believe them.