Template:Did you know nominations/Eugenia Washington
- The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:03, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
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Eugenia Washington[edit]
- ... that a great-grandniece of George Washington, Eugenia Washington, founded two lineage societies including the Daughters of the American Revolution?
- Reviewed: Pavona cactus
- Comment: This article was redirected from my sandbox on April 13, 2013. I am open to suggestions for alternative hooks, as there is a lot of notable content to choose from.
Created by Caponer (talk). Self nominated at 14:27, 14 April 2013 (UTC).
Everything seems to be in order, apart from close paraphrasing concerns. For example at 7n and at 9c, though there is likely more. Please fix all instances of close paraphrasing.—♦♦ AMBER(ЯʘCK) 14:17, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
- Amberrock, thank you so incredibly much for taking the time to review my article. I've fixed the paraphrasing mentioned above! Thanks again! Caponer (talk) 01:35, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
- As I said, there is likely more. And there is. Fix all close paraphrasing concerns please, not just the ones I list here. For example, refs 13d, 13b, 27 are still too similiar to the source. Please bring those in line with Wikipedia policy, as well as the instances I have not pointed out here.—♦♦ AMBER(ЯʘCK) 14:57, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
- I've addressed the first two example references you've provided above by rephrasing those sentences, although the third one is a bit more difficult to rephrase as there are a limited number of ways to restate that Mrs. Fairbanks presided over the ceremony at the groundbreaking of the Memorial Continental Hall. I've gone through the entire article, and where there has been somewhat close paraphrasing, the source is fully attributed and is public domain or free use content and quotations are utilized when specific words or phrases have been included from non-free content. According to Wikipedia's guidance on close paraphrasing, public domain or free use content "may be closely paraphrased if it is fully attributed" (which in this article, it is) and "limited quotation from non-free copyrighted sources is allowed." --Caponer (talk) 01:45, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
Many of the examples I pointed out were not public domain sources (Morgan 2005, King 2008), so that policy doesn't apply here. Furthermore, I was never talking about quotation, but close paraphrasing. There's an important difference between the two, namely that you acknowledge the author wrote the exact same words in the first case. I think the article is much better now, but since close paraphrasing has been an issue with this nomination more than once, I would like somebody else to check this nomination as well.—♦♦ AMBER(ЯʘCK) 13:36, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
- Amberrock, again I appreciate your review and comments, and thank you for bringing those instances to my attention so that I could correct them immediately. As you can see, there was a wealth of content to illustrate in this article, and sometimes a few source threads aren't quite entirely sewn in so to speak when weaving together all the information. Thanks again! -- Caponer (talk) 17:13, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
