Talk:Magellanic Stream

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[edit] No evidence for copyvio

The copyvio tag should be removed. The indicated source, [1], is simply a Wikipedia mirror. The user who tagged this as a copyvio, The Mad Genius, listed it at Wikipedia:Copyright_problems/2007_March_20/Articles with the comment:

Note that the brainyencyclopedia page says it got some of it's content from Wikipedia. However, the formatting in the Magellanic Stream makes it nearly certain that the content was pasted from brainyencyclopedia.

but there's no indication of what characteristics of the formatting he's talking about. It looks like a Wikipedia article to me. Moreover, the alleged source includes a note at the bottom:

"The Wikipedia article included on this page is licensed under the GFDL."

I would remove the copyvio tag as patently silly, but it seems only admins may do so. --Reuben 23:53, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I didn't realize that brainyencyclopedia was a mirror. The formatting issue is that the line breaks in the article source text match the formatting of the brainyencyclopedia article. Seems like a chicken-and-egg problem, but I agree there doesn't appear to be an actual copyvio problem at this point. The Mad Genius 03:21, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
The line breaks match because the whole article was copied verbatim to brainyencyclopedia (which is perfectly legitimate). --Reuben 17:29, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to declare this closed, as the source for brainyencyclopedia being here and history here appear pretty consistent and not a Copyvio problem. Georgewilliamherbert 23:43, 3 April 2007 (UTC)