<p>I’m with Hanna. Being fired is not a good analogy to failing a course. If the student had been expelled from college, I think it would be comparable, but I wouldn’t imagine firing anyone – even an experienced litigator – for minor slip in an otherwise well-written and well-researched application. It’s really expensive to do that!</p>
<p>This story still seems a little fishy to me. I can understand someone using a source like Wikipedia; I personally don’t condone it, but I can understand how someone might do that. I don’t really understand how the student would have even found an Italian gaming website, much less confused it for a source that even pretended to be authoritative (at least Wikipedia calls itself an encyclopedia!) If the OP really is gone, I guess we’ll never know the truth.</p>