Talk:William Churchill (ethnologist)

William Churchill (ethnologist)

Moved here from Help talk:Introduction to editing with VisualEditor/2 -- John of Reading (talk) 08:00, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

I'd like to point out that the bulk of this article including the illustration is from my original article on William Churchill in the Hawaiian Journal of History some 20 years ago. Joetheroux999 (talk) 22:58, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

@Joetheroux999: Looking at the revision history of the article, I see that the text of the Wikipedia article was built up to its present state over the course of 11 years by several different editors. To me it seems unlikely that any of them were copying directly from a journal article. Is a copy of the Hawaiian Journal of History article available online anywhere? Without the exact text, it will be hard to tell if copying has occurred.

The image is over 100 years old and is in the public domain. The description page, File:William Churchill Apia Consulate.png, says that Wikipedia's image was cropped from this scanned newspaper, not from the the Hawaiian Journal of History. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:14, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Joetheroux999, John of Reading, the article "William Churchill: A Fractured Life" by Joseph Theroux is available here. Beyond the fact that both are about the same person, I don't see any similarity to our article or any evidence of copying. As for the image, File:William Churchill Apia Consulate.png is clearly different from that in the published article, which does not have the caption "William Churchill, nominated for the Apia consulate". Does that settle this, or is there some specific text that you believe was copied, Joetheroux999? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:55, 14 March 2016 (UTC)