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Re:What's the Deal with Fish Oil? by ars on Thursday December 17, 2009 @12:33AM (#1000481)
Parts of this article is almost word for word straight from the wikipedia article on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menhaden.
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Re:What's the Deal with Fish Oil? by zach on Thursday December 17, 2009 @01:10AM (#1000526)
And if that guy who keeps editing the Wikipedia page doesn't stop, this article is going to become wholesale plagiarism!
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Re:What's the Deal with Fish Oil? by ars on Thursday December 17, 2009 @01:26AM (#1000544)
No, I checked the wikipedia article on the date before he published his piece.

And yes, some of his article is making his way back to wikipedia - but now wikipedia has a ref.

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Re:What's the Deal with Fish Oil? by m_eiman on Thursday December 17, 2009 @03:19AM (#1000664)
That might be a business opportunity - create a magazine that publishes rewrites of Wikipedia articles in need of references (for a moderate fee). It could actually even be a magazine with interesting, if diverse, content!
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Re:What's the Deal with Fish Oil? by gwern on Thursday December 17, 2009 @11:45AM (#1001314)
I just subscribe to the Daily Article ML (https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l)!
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