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Wikipedia Plagiarism Ends Journalist's Career
An anonymous reader writes "Tim Ryan, a 21 year veteran entertainment columnist for the Honolulu Star Bulletin, was fired yesterday after an investigation revealed multiple instances of his incorporating unattributed paragraphs from other sources. This case is unique in that it was first revealed by Wikipedia after an attentive Wikipedia editor noted similarities between a Wikipedia article and one of Ryan's columns. However he wasn't fired until after other news outlets started to run the story. Sadly, though the Star-Bulletin has admitted to the plagiarism, they failed to publicly acknowledge that Wikipedia was responsible for bringing this situation to light."
The new WikiStar-Bulletin has been edited to reflect this fact.
This really makes one wonder how much additional plagiarism is present in the articles and reports presented by the mass media on a daily basis.
This article is [[plagiarism]]. You can [[help]] Wikipedia by [[reporting it]].
"Sadly, though the Star-Bulletin has admitted to the plagiarism, they failed to publicly acknowledge that Wikipedia was responsible for bringing this situation to light."
That the story of a journalist plagiarizing wikipedia, that was revealed on wikipedia, was plagiarized by the Star-Bulletin, the paper that employed the plagiarizing writer?
Irony meter broken!!! Alert Alert!!!
It truly is that difficulty uses babelfish to translate the wikipedia article again from English to Chinese, behind, with repairs grammer? The person deserves is dismissed. Definitely, is plagarism, but heavier important place for is enough stupidly caught, imho.
You mean select with mouse
then press ctrl + c
then press ctrl + v
But, but, isnt that feature of Windows ?
[My english is better than most other people's Turkish, so please point out mistakes politely. Thank you.]
This really makes one wonder how much additional plagiarism is present in the articles and reports presented by the mass media on a daily basis.
I think there's a lot. For example, Tim Ryan, a 21 year veteran entertainment columnist for the Honolulu Star Bulletin, was fired yesterday after an investigation revealed multiple instances of his incorporating unattributed paragraphs from other sources. This case is unique in that it was first revealed by Wikipedia after an attentive Wikipedia editor noted similarities between a Wikipedia article and one of Ryan's columns. However he wasn't fired until after other news outlets started to run the story. Sadly, though the Star-Bulletin has admitted to the plagiarism, they failed to publicly acknowledge that Wikipedia was responsible for bringing this situation to light.
If you include bloggers as journalists (average age about 14) then 21 can be considered a veteran.
also... you fly wwii veterans? cool
So today slashdot loves wikipedia? I'll be looking forward to the "Wikipedia Kills Baby Seals" article tomorrow.
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If my math is correct, the turn of the century only comes around once every hundred years.
What if Tim wrote the Wikipedia article?
Based on that, the mainstream media fails to pass the most simple factchecks.
And most Americans fail to pass the most simple FATchecks. Obesity AND lying run rampant here.
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I know this is wildly off-topic, but the parent reminded me of a story my professor told me...
A student had handed in a paper for an exam and passed with a decent grade. Next year another student handed in the same paper, which he'd "borrowed" from the first student -- this time it was graded a bit higher than the first time though. Third year, yet another student handed in the exact same paper and it was returned to him with an even higher mark than the previous two and with a remark from the professor: "Now I've read this paper 3 times and it just keeps getting better every time I read it."
"Live free or don't."