User talk:Stevekaw

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-Poli (talk • contribs) 22:12, 2005 July 25 (UTC)

Paraphrasing

Just a quick note to say that your paraphrasing of the Westinghouse Electronic Systems official history is, in my opinion, not thorough enough and could even be described as a copyright violation. The changes seem to amount to integrating the headings (years) into the text, changing the tense of several words and changing instances of "company" to "division". For example the section below is from the Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems article, I've highlighted in bold the characters that are different from the original:

Westinghouse more than doubled its manufacturing area in its Baltimore location to accommodate production of the then highly-secret SCR-270 aircraft warning radar. In 1941, an SCR-270 radar detected the December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor; its warnings went unheeded because of high-level uncertainty about the new technology's reliability. The first ground-based radar built for the Army Signal Corps, the SCR-270 proves to be the only model to stay in action throughout all of World War II.

Also, even if the paraphrasing was satisfactory, you should still have referenced the Northrop Grumman website. Mark83 22:02, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me, though I'm not sure you got my point. As far as I can tell the text you added came from Northrop Grumman's website and is copyrighted by them. Therefore you cannot just lift whole sections and add them to an article. Regards Mark83 19:26, 9 March 2006 (UTC)