How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the Answer

Re:How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the ... by rootsudo on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @09:43PM (#20291042)

If you go to the Wikipedia Article for Radium Girls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls - You'd see it's an exact mirror of much of the text that's reposted on theatlantic.com article.

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Re:How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the ... by dehrmann on Thursday June 27, 2019 @01:51AM (#20292039)

I did, and I searched for several random 4-6 word phrases in the Atlantic article from the Wikipedia one, and I didn't find anything making it obvious much of the content is an exact mirror.

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Re:How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the ... by forgotmypwd123 on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:34AM (#20292668)

Its lazily reworded, still plaigarism

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Re:How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the ... by dehrmann on Thursday June 27, 2019 @12:20PM (#20295869)

> ...an exact mirror...

It might be lazily reworded, but hyperbole like that hurts the commenter's credibility and makes me less likely to believe them.

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Re:How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the ... by ajna91 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @09:46PM (#20291067)

I find this kind of thing quite often, and it always annoys me.

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Re:How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the ... by djtriptych on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @11:26PM (#20291501)

We should automate wiki-plagiarism checks.

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