Talk:Hal Higdon

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As one of the finalists for NASA's Journalist in Space program, Hal Higdon made the first cut to 100 out of approximately 5,000 applicants. Then he made the second cut to 40, before NASA abandoned the program in the wake of the Challenger explosion. KarateLadyKarateLady 03:53, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Material copy/pasted from Higdon's biography page
I noticed that a lot of the material in the biography section seems to be cut and paste, and very slightly rewritten, from Hal Higdon's biography page on his website (http://www.halhigdon.com/biography/bio.htm). For example, this is from the WP page:

Here's the opening of Higdon's biography page:

And again, from the WP page:

From Higdon's bio:

Ain't no way that's coincidence. Maybe it isn't a copyright violation--heck, for all I know, Hal Higdon himself set up this WP page and copied in material from his bio. But it looks fishy to me. -- Narsil 01:13, 31 October 2007 (UTC)