Daniel Brandt is again embarassing himself, this time claiming that he’s found evidence of widespread plagiarism among Wikipedia entries. But how much of this is genuine plagiarism rather than just Brandt’s typical incompetence.
Take, for example, the Wikipedia entry on Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. Brandt claims here that large portions of Wikipedia’s entry on de Tournefort has been swiped from an entry on de Tournefort at Armenica.Org, an online encylopedia of everything Armenian.
The only problem is that the origins of the Armenica.Org entry is made quite clear at the end of the article: Source: Wikipedia.org”
That’s right, Armenica.Org borrowed its entry from Wikipedia, not vice versa — so it’s not surprising the entries are almost identical!!!
This is fairly typical of the quality of Brandt’s investigations and conspiracy theories about Google and Wikipedia.