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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “Maus”
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The source
Art Spiegelman’s Maus: A Survivor’s Tale: A Bibliographic Essay
Hye Su Park
Shofar · published April 2011 · cited 7 times by other papers
Retracted Apr 28, 2011
Date of Article and/or Notice UnknownInvestigation by Company/InstitutionPlagiarism of/in Article
Where Wikipedia cites it
- Maus20,086 views a month · open since Nov 5 · editors toldZombie
Case log
- FoundFound on Maus: the citation is live and nothing near it mentions the retraction.
- ReviewedRead by hand (Maus). Shofar retracted this essay for plagiarism. It is listed in the article's list of scholarship on Maus.
- Note postedNote posted on the talk page of Maus. See the note.
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