Re-purposing Dalmatia, Amazon.com and dubious sources Options

[thekohser]

I have to say that this is one of the funniest things I've seen all month, related to free licenses.

This post has been edited by thekohser:

[cookiehead]

Some deutschefellow has a boner against Amazon for it's "collaboration" in selling "books" from some probably scammy publisher. Apparently taking WikiPedia articles and publishing them as books.

As if there already aren't enough crappy "books" around with lousy proof-reading and lack of editorial judgement.

Well, the person in question is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Playmobilonhishorse


Get a load of that user page. Can you say "My sole purpose on Wikipedia is to advocate for a legal case brought against "Dr. Wolfgang Philipp Müller." I knew you could.

So this person posts a blog, user submitted type entry on a German equivalent of "hot e-deals.com". Then uses the German-American gray area of laziness in verifying sources to use it as a "reliable source" about this "controversy" on the Amazon page. Yet there are no WP:RS anywhere reporting on this "controversy".

Matter discussed here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Rel...d#Preisgenau.de

[milowent]

Some deutschefellow has a boner against Amazon for it's "collaboration" in selling "books" from some probably scammy publisher. Apparently taking WikiPedia articles and publishing them as books.

yes, this comes up from time to time. my avatar is the badge that the company added to the front cover of their new "publications" after the last round of outcries against them.