Vatican Lifts Bios for New Cardinals From … Wikipedia

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By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 9, 2012

(Newser) – Well, this is embarrassing: The Vatican was recently caught lifting biographical information for its own cardinals from Wikipedia. The biographies for 22 new cardinals appointed Friday were sent to journalists, who noticed that the information had been taken from the Italian-language version of Wikipedia with no attribution.

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