On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Charles Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > The Cunctator wrote: >> Sometimes I don't understand people. Carcharoth goes to the trouble of >> finding his birth date, learning he received the Brazilian Order of Merit, >> and lists out some copy errors, but then doesn't fix the page? >> >> I mean, what's the point? >> > Um, maybe email is OK in the working environment, but spending time > editing WP not so? Just a thought. You seem a little impatient with > someone who is not in your time zone.
Thanks, Charles. I did add the stuff I found, but clearly more is possible. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Corell&action=historysubmit&diff=340496552&oldid=340442133 One problem with people rushing around adding sources to BLPs that may be deleted is that other stuff gets missed. Compare this: http://sustsci.aaas.org/content.html?contentid=471 With the initial version of the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Corell&oldid=76775195 Our article started on 20 September 2006. The aaas sustsci forum doesn't give a date for their article (which is unhelpful). So it is not clear which came first, but portions of each are identical. "Prior to joining the NSF in 1987, he was a Professor and academic administrator at"; "Dr. Corell is an oceanographer and engineer by background and training, having received". The facts are not copyrighted, and it is sometimes difficult to avoid standard biographical phrasings, but the wording is too close there. I haven't changed it yet, because I'm not sure which text came first. Taking an unreferenced block of text and working out if any portions of it are straight copy-paste copyvios is a nightmare to do. Many people don't bother, or just stick in a reference. The point here is that the sequence: i) Unreferenced text by anonymous or drive-by contributor ii) Wikified and tidied up by Wikpedians and left unreferenced for several years iii) References hurriedly added to save from deletion Will lead to a lot of situations like this. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
