While I was happily improving Wikipedia's article on HIV/AIDS today I came across a recently published textbook that perfectly supported our article on HIV. I than realized that it to perfectly supported our article and that it was little more than extensively copied and pasted from us without appropriate attribution. This is becoming more and more common now that Wikipedia is getting better. The academic press is comes and borrowing extensively from us and claiming our material as their own.
The bigger question is regarding how this effects verifiablity going forwards. This cartoon is coming true http://xkcd.com/978/ The Wikipedia page on HIV from Dec 2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HIV&oldid=402612350#Sexual In general, if infected blood comes into contact with any open wound<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wound>, HIV may be transmitted. This transmission route can account for infections in intravenous drug users <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_injection>, hemophiliacs <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemophiliac>, and recipients ofblood transfusions <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_transfusion> (though most transfusions are checked for HIV in the developed world) and blood products. It is also of concern for persons receiving medical care in regions where there is prevalent substandard hygiene in the use of injection equipment, such as the reuse of needles in Third World<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World> countries. Health care <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care> workers such as nurses, laboratory workers, and doctors have also been infected, although this occurs more rarely. Since transmission of HIV by blood became known medical personnel are required to protect themselves from contact with blood by the use of universal precautions<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_precautions>. People who give and receive tattoos <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattoo>, piercings <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_piercing>, and scarification<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarification> procedures can also be at risk of infection. HIV has been found at low concentrations in the saliva<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saliva> , tears <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears> and urine<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine> of infected individuals, but there are no recorded cases of infection by these secretions and the potential risk of transmission is negligible.[45]<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HIV&oldid=402612350#cite_note-pmid2963151-44> It is not possible for mosquitoes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito> to transmit HIV.[46]<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HIV&oldid=402612350#cite_note-45> This textbook from Mar of this year. Go to page 264 to see an exact copy of this: Gupta, Priya (2012). *Understanding and Management of Special Child in Pediatric Dentistry*<http://books.google.ca/books?id=VAqP7xd4r74C&pg=PA264>. JP Medical Ltd, 2012. pp. 264. ISBN<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number> 9350256312 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9350256312> -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l