Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-10-30/Plagiarism cleanup

Plagiarism cleanup

Work underway to purge plagiarized text from articles

Wikipedia editors launched an effort last week to clean up a number of articles, following a report that found a significant amount of plagiarism in biographical articles. Most of the affected articles needed to have the plagiarized text removed and several were deleted entirely, although in a few instances the source was in the public domain and the problem could be solved simply with a correct attribution.