•    Detect copies of articles on the Internet that have been deleted
•    There are print screens of the published texts on Espasa.com and tests in the cache of Google.

Incredible but true. The editorial web page that published the most famous encyclopaedia in Spanish has been caught plagiarising texts from Wikipedia as El Mundo says today. This includes opening a site which shows the plagiarism on the website of Espasa.com

The accused part of the blogosphere. The blog GaedDal is echoed from the report of the main author of the article about Baltasar Gracián in the online encyclopaedia by José Manuel Moreno. Moreno whose nickname is “Escarlati” wrote an email to those responsible at Espasa.com and explained the license of Wikipedia (that between other things, they are obligated to extract the texts of the same publishing also under the license GNU Free Documentation License and the copyright of Espasa.com are incompatible).

In spite of the disappearance of Baltasar Gracián’s profile and other profiles on Espasa.com, the news has been extended in the network; print screens also exist that shows some plagiarisms and you can read them in the cache of Google.

Wikipedia has been authorised entrance about these plagiarisms and it shows until this moment, copies of the biographies of Voltaire, Albert Boadella, Dámaso Alonso, Giovanni Boccacio, Joan Manuel Gisbert, Azorín and Arcadi Espada.

Editorial sources of Espasa have assured that they have received a notification by email from Wikipedia that the copy of the profile of Baltasar Gracian will be back in place on the website.

“We delay the withdrawal for 45 minutes whilst others are checking it”, commented the sources. Since, Espasa has stated that they entrust the new design of the page with an external company.

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