The BBC is ripping me off!

[keithlard]

The BBC web site news story "Row over 'street in sky' estate" describes the notorious Robin Hood Gardens estate thus:

Robin Hood Gardens is a council housing complex in Poplar, London designed in the late 1960s by architects Alison and Peter Smithson and completed in 1972... It was intended as an example of the 'streets in the sky' concept: social

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[tla]

On the one hand, it's kind of hilarious. On the other hand, I just submitted a complaint to the BBC, because I am actually rather appalled by the idea that they would cut & paste from Wikipedia. If the author of that article were a university student, he/she would be in very deep shit.

Looking stuff up is all very well, but for heaven's sake, weren't we all taught in school how to paraphrase?

[keithlard]

It's now been rewritten! :D

[tla]

Yes, and as a result one of my friends thought I was stretching the definition of "plagiarism" to an unreasonable degree. :) I'm now waiting to see if they contact me to acknowledge my complaint, like I asked them to.

[flexagon]

Ha, that's awesome!

[lucypevensie]

It is like you are famous only no one knows it!!

[bellanna]

How cheeky of them. Have you complained?

[mutster101]

Like Robin Hood Gardens, I was also completed in 1972.

The article's not an exact copy of yours now, btw.