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Originally Posted by pdurrant
But the wikipedia article can't have been copied out of the book before the book was published. So if the passages really are the same, either the author copied from wikipedia, or the author added that section to wikipedia.
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True, unless that part of the book had been published elsewhere.
Unlikely, I know, but the point is that it's very difficult for you (or anybody) to prove who's plagiarising who. I think you're right to be cautious.