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by Willie_Dynamite 5944 days ago
It said right there on the page I looked at that the information was from wikipedia.
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As the title of this posting suggests, that's apparently the backup plan because they lack enough original content.

The fact that they attribute it is nice but does not detract from that point.

JC is on the record stating more than once that mahalo.com is built using user supplied content, he seems to have stretched that definition to now include the content of other sites as well.