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anon1040on Author Finds Another's Name on an Elsevier Book Chapter She Wrote

A friend of mine once said on LinkedIn that he found a paper about his Ph.D. work plagiarised 100%: the clone had another author name on it, but even cited his original Ph.D. thesis!

In contrast, I once found my Ph.D. thesis cited on a Wikipedia page, but with another author's name on it! This was easier to correct, the "edit" button is your friend. But it makes you wonder how many errors are on Wikipedia that have so far gone undetected.

anon1040on Wc2: Investigates optimizing 'wc', the Unix word count program

> ...the real wc works with a lot more character-sets...

This should read: the real wc works with a lot more character _encodings_