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PostPosted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 11:42 am    Post subject: Still think wikipedia isn't a viable source? Reply with quote

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Indiana_Department_of_Homeland_Security_violates_Wikipedia_copyright?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+WikinewsLatestNews+%28Wikinews+Latest+News%29

Indiana Department of Homeland Security violates Wikipedia copyright

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The Indiana Department of Homeland Security was revealed on Saturday to have violated the copyright of a number of contributors to online encyclopedia Wikipedia in a document on racial profiling by quoting Wikipedia articles without any attribution.

The PDF file, which was created as a guide for students in grades 9–12 "[t]o research positions related to the topic of racial profiling post September 11, 2001 with a primary focus on citizens of Middle Eastern descent, and to give an informative speech", quotes from seven Wikipedia articles without mentioning Wikipedia at any point. These are: Racial Profiling, USA PATRIOT Act, Bigotry, Internment, Terrorism, Counter-terrorism, and The War on Terrorism, all in the "Vocabulary" section. This is against Wikipedia's Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) License, which requires that the original author(s) be attributed.

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