VATICAN CITY
BBC News
The Vatican has acknowledged that it used Wikipedia to produce biographies of 22 new cardinals that were sent out to journalists.
The biographies were copied from the Italian version of the user-edited online encyclopedia, word for word in some cases, and without attribution.
One clue was that many new cardinals were described as being “Catholic”.
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