Forum:Plaigiarism in a featured article?

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Parts of Guyana are lifted from This book, San Sombrero. The part about the census and the people in doorways is directly lifted and quite memorable. --Nikau (talk) 15:32, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Here is a link to copied sections. --Nikau (talk) 15:53, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Seems like User:Moneke was the naughty boy. The offending stuff comes from his contributions (check out the difference between the first ever edit and the last one he did). Shall we strip it of its privilege?

By the way, did I tell you guys I shot a moose once? Really funny story. I shot a moose, and I am driving along the George Washington Bridge, and the moose wakes up! So I panic, you know, in the event of any... Leverage (talk) 16:06, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Someone else wrote the bulk of it, so maybe we should just cut the naughty sections? I think it's pretty inconsistent anyway, parts are good and parts are copied one liners. --Nikau (talk) 16:28, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

I guess we need a vote going to remove it. Seems like a slap in the face to have this alongside actual work that took effort. A large portion is just straight copied and then later cleaned up by an unaware SPIKE. --Nikau (talk) 16:55, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

I reckon just delete the naughty bits. Would it be a pain in the ass for you to do? Leverage (talk) 17:30, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Well, it's pretty anemic without them, all 7,000kb of stolen text. --Nikau (talk) 06:10, 25 September 2014 (UTC)