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From a book review

Unread post by Poetlister » Sun Mar 26, 2017 8:53 pm

Scientific accuracy appears to be rather patchy, with much of the content having been extacted from Wikipedia, re-worded in part, and occasionally misinterpreted somewhat.
"Dawn of Small Worlds: Dwarf Planets, Asteroids and Comets" by M. Moltenbrey. Reviewed in The Observatory, 2017 February, page 28. Comment is superfluous.
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Unread post by Zoloft » Sun Mar 26, 2017 10:56 pm

The book is being criticized in other reviews for poor grammar and uneven writing.

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Re: From a book review

Unread post by AndyTheGrump » Mon Mar 27, 2017 12:12 am

If the book really does contain content lifted from Wikipedia, it probably shouldn't be cited as a source in the Rosetta (spacecraft) (T-H-L) article.

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Unread post by Poetlister » Mon Mar 27, 2017 7:14 pm

AndyTheGrump wrote:If the book really does contain content lifted from Wikipedia, it probably shouldn't be cited as a source in the Rosetta (spacecraft) (T-H-L) article.
That would scarcely be the first time something like that has happened. There is even a name for the phenomenon: citogenesis.
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Unread post by The Garbage Scow » Tue Mar 28, 2017 6:16 pm

It's marginally better than those sham "publishers" who lift the Wiki article text wholesale (including typos, bad formatting, and vandalism), bind it and sell it on Amazon as a book with a bunch of fake authors listed.