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    FRENCH LAWMAKER MOCKED AFTER DRAFT LAW COPIED AND PASTED FROM WIKIPEDIA

    Washington Post
    April 2 2015

    French politician Valerie Boyer and her staff seem to like Wikipedia --
    too much, maybe. Their admiration for the online encyclopedia will now
    be forever documented in governmental transcripts, after the opposition
    politician presented a draft law which was allegedly copied from the
    platform in large part. She and her assistants didn't even remove
    Wikipedia's footnotes, according to French newspaper Le Figaro.

    On Tuesday, French media outlets exposed the plagiarism when they
    analyzed the law proposal which argues that France should recognize
    the Assyrian genocide during the World War I under the Ottoman Empire.

    As WorldViews reported earlier, in the final days of the Ottoman
    Empire, hundreds of thousands of ethnic Armenians and Assyrians were
    killed. Armenians argue that the killings were committed by Turkish
    soldiers, but Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has refused to
    acknowledge the historical guilt.

    Speaking to Le Nouvel Observateur's Rue 89, an unnamed assistant to
    Boyer confirmed the allegations: "There are only few information
    on this subject, so the MP decided to overtake some wordings from
    Wikipedia." The assistant was also quoted as saying that the copied
    sentences had been fact-checked before being published.

    Boyer is considered an expert on the topic among French politicians --
    an aspect which has raised larger questions over how much politicians
    really know about the goals they pursue.

    This tweet, published by an Armenian organization last month, appears
    to show the MP during a commemoration of the killings in Marseille
    in the south of France.

    "In their haste, the delegates did not even take the time to erase
    the traces of their iniquities. In their reckless and rude act of
    plagiarism they even copied the links leading to the original sources
    of the encyclopedia," France's leading center-left Le Monde newspaper
    commented.

    The incident has certainly shed an uncomfortable light on the
    conservative UMP opposition party, headed by former president Nicolas
    Sarkozy. The party had recently been shaken by a series of scandals
    and internal squabbles.

    Sarkozy himself acknowledged in a recent interview with Le Figaro
    that his party's "brand is a little worn off." Last month, however,
    the UMP party made unexpected gains in local elections and can now
    even hope to win the 2017 presidential elections.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/04/02/french-lawmaker-mocked-after-draft-law-copy-and-pasted-from-wikipedia/

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