Wikipedia Plagiarism Ends Journalist's Career

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday January 15, 2006 @03:32AM from the someone-quick-post-this-story-into-wikipedia dept.

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."

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More worthy news story is... by layer3switch · 2006-01-15 03:57 · Score: 0, Troll

Wikipidia editor actually checked the articles for similarity. Wow, world never seize to wonder...

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Re:How much more that we don't know about? by Tommac2005 · 2006-01-15 04:50 · Score: 0, Troll

PDF warning you dickhead.

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