The first post of BROS includes two verses and two choruses of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, which you are encouraged to read. Unfortunately, the lyrics still include the hyperlinks showing that they were copied and pasted amateurishly from Wikipedia.
(hover over 'gospel', 'the serpent', and 'Christ' to reveal their origin).
And this is the bloke who chewed me out over using Wikipedia for a quick 'n dirty survey of what fast ex-civilian ships/boats the Yanks impressed during WW1*.
ReplyDeleteAnd here he (at least I presume Smithy is male, though given his apparent need for USA-fark-YA perhaps he's compensating for something?) is blatantly pulling big chunks down off wiki without even an acknowledgement?
Talk about a right bloody hypocrite.
*The Anglo-US 1895 war thread last year. Of cause, the sources he suggested were utterly useless; we were arguing about fast yacht and pilot cutters as ersatz-Torpedo Boats... his sources gave bare names and tonnage but not something useful like, oh, speed. Of cause, when others were ranting about the US pulling eleventy grillion-trillion-kajillion anything out of their arses he was suspiciously silent on sourcing. And you know the ironic thing? In that thread I was actually arguing in favour of a US win... but apparently advocating a timeframe of two to five year rather than DOW minus fifty seconds was unacceptable.
This one is pretty minor, though I'm kind of surprised he didn't know the lyrics already. However, he's pulled bigger sections of text from Wikipedia elsewhere in the timeline- see 'Shenandoah your Working' for more details.
DeleteYou do know we caught TFS editing wikipedia to support his arguments? His IP is 76.95.109.246
ReplyDeleteWonder who the guy that tried to change it recently was.
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