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Does not appear to be copyvio on Wikipedia's part. Compare earliest entry on archive.org for this website against earlier revision on Wikipedia. Note that the WP revision does not have a URL to the website. --Ian Weller (talk) 05:11, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Can you definitively say that the webpage mentioned did not exist on October 18, 2006, when the Wikipedia article was written? --Rschen7754 (T C) 07:02, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The domain was registered 29-oct-2004. The site was first seen by netcraft in Jan 2005 [2]. The site was first indexed by archive.org in Feb 2005 [3]. The bell_curve_grading.htm page was indexed Jan 2007. One of their pages that links to it (http://k12academics.com/parentinfo.htm) was indexed by archive.org from Dec 2005 onwards [4] but didn't have a link to bell_curve_grading.htm until Jan 2007. So bell_curve_grading.htm was either only created in Jan 2007 (and was copied from Wikipedia) or the site went to extraordinary and unbelievable lengths to hide only that page and no others from archive.org until 2007 or they created that page and hid it somewhere away from the internet for two years and then put it on their website (and during those two years someone with access to their physical computers stole it and wrote the wikipedia article with it). The only believable possibility is that it was copied from Wikipedia. See also the previous copyright violation tag in Jan 2008 [5]which was removed [6] because of Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Jkl#K12_Academics. Year Zero is a concept (talk) 19:57, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Green tickY Thank you for doing so much of the legwork here. :) I've linked to this discussion at the article's talk page and added a few more details that lend reason to our presumption that Wikipedia is not in violation of copyright. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:34, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]