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27 March 2017

 * Cube Route ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) (section "Summary") This identical text appears all over the web if you search for
 * "cube route" "This curious quest takes them all over Xanth"
 * — 28 pages including this one. Whatever the origin, it wasn't Wikipedia. Go to http://www.mobinuke.com/archive/index.php/t-96840-p-3.html and search for "cube route". That review, the last in a series of reviews of all the Xanth books by that time, is identical to this section and is dated "26th July 2006, 07:17", whereas this section was inserted here 18:35, 11 March 2011 by IP user 173.176.238.22 with no contributions beyond this page.
 * (Additional observation not inserted on the page) I spent at least an hour looking for this proof of copyvio, and it's 1 am here. I'm all used up, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if some of the other Xanth book summaries were from the same source.
 * Thnidu (talk) 05:13, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention., you may well be right about other plot summaries – and not just of this series, it's a general and widespread problem. I checked a few of these and didn't find any obvious problems. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:13, 6 April 2017 (UTC)