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I hope that the Signpost will report on the results of the Medieval Weirdness competition! PamD (talk) 08:57, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is it worth noting that the Register also included a photo of David Gerard in both incorrect versions of the Norman Wisdom article? Nathan^T 13:30, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Academic Plagiarism[edit]

The irony is that the 11 citations to the plagiarized research article contributes to the notability of the authors, under our fundamentally flawed WP:PROF guidelines, which equates citations with notability instead of biographical coverage. Gigs (talk) 15:36, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

as a rule, detected academic plagiarism at this level is rare and does greatly contribute to notability--if confirmed by the sort of unquestionably reliable sources necessary for negative BLP. Notability is not always positive. DGG ( talk ) 16:25, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Although, do see this. ResMar 03:42, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats to Jimmy for the award! -- œ ^™ 06:14, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Book scam[edit]

Is anyone aware of any action by the Foundation to contact Amazon about this book scam? It seems to me that Amazon is making itself a party to this fraud (in the ethical sense, not the legal one) by selling these books.--Chaser (away) - talk 03:49, 14 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]