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Improbably named book author George Orwel "inadvertently" added five paragraphs from a Wikipedia entry, without attribution, to his book Black Gold: The New Frontier in Oil for Investors. As with any undue reliance on Wikipedia, Orwel's act wasn't wrong, just stupid. There's a saying at magazines: Don't use Wikipedia as a source. There's no way of knowing how accurate the information is, and the online encyclopedia expects contributors to add only information that can be verified elsewhere. Not that that stops lazy deskbound journalists for leaning on the loser-generated encyclopedia for facts.