Comments on: 50 Reasons to Subscribe to mental_floss (#42, One Scheming Princess)

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:30:51 +0000

F*ck… I am so embarrassed. I made such a stupid mistake, and I apologize.

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:59:06 +0000

Um, does Jessica understand what Wikipedia is? Did she look at the sources at the bottom, to see where the information came from?

Apparently not. Jeez.

By: Allison

Allison — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:12:50 +0000

Jessica, the wikipedia entry actually uses Mark Longo’s article as one of it’s sources.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:27:39 +0000

“Like this piece?” Yes, but too bad it was almost entire lifted (and unsourced) from wikipedia. Even phrases are the same… “Honoria was smart, ruthless and conniving as a young woman,” “She refused to lead a chaste life and during her teen years she slept her way through the royal court,” “Valentinian refused and Attila invaded Roman territory in 451 C.E using the excuse that he was a “wronged husband,” and “For Honoria, living as a nun was a fate worse than death” are all phrases directly from the wikipedia entry. This is all out plagerizing–are you PUBLISHING this stuff? Because, just so you know, that’s illegal. And morally wrong. Would I ever consider subscribing to mental_floss now? Forget it.

By: GTT

GTT — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:45:46 +0000

I love this story… Makes my teenage years look like a walk in the park!