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Baccalaureate board probes [b]Wikipedia plagiarism claim[/b]BBC NewsThe credibility of the International Baccalaureate (IB) has been questioned amid claims parts of its marking guides were plagiarised from Wikipedia.
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Baccalaureate 'copied [b]Wikipedia'[/b]BBC NewsThe credibility of the International Baccalaureate (IB) has been questioned amid claims parts of its marking guides were plagiarised from Wikipedia.
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This is a refreshing story in a sense: Wikipedia has done no wrong, yet finds itself at the centre of yet another scandal.
I think this is one for Mr A. as it strikes at the heart of what is so damn worrying about Wikipedia - that responsible people are so, erm, normal and human that they take a lazy way of cut and pasting chunks of Wikipedia rather than putting the effort in.
Wikipedia isn't really the core problem, it is just a visible symptom of how intellectually weak the world is.
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IB lifted exam marking guides from [b]Wikipedia[/b]Times Educational SupplementThe credibility of the International Baccalaureate (IB) was badly undermined this week as it emerged that it has plagiarised large chunks of its marking
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