User talk:Swyper

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November 2013[edit]

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Fu]], amongst others, has accused Jacobs of making journalistic distortions in his articles<ref>[http://www.chinaaid.org/2013/07/chinaaid-president-bob-fu-responds-to.html ChinaAid President Bob

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Andrew Jacobs[edit]

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Andrew Jacobs (journalist). Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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Thanks Jim. I've explained my changes in the talk page. As it stood, much of the page was plagiarized. Swyper (talk) 03:07, 7 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

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Request reason:

The following is copied from talk page of Jim1138: "Hi Jim. I have removed excess passages in the article such as, for example, a series of sentences quoting reviews about Jacobs' film because it is not an appropriate place to put them; the article is about the person, not about the film. It does not make sense to have a whole paragraph lavishing praise on the film here. As another issue, Nellie2011 has removed biographical information about the subject's background, which clearly belongs in the article. Thus, I have reverted these changes. I have also tried to pare down and keep the content of some other sentences because they were clearly copied verbatim from NYTimes and other sources and I feel that such plagiarism is not acceptable here." Swyper (talk) 03:27, 7 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

You are blocked for edit warring; you'll need to address that, and only that, in your unblock request. --jpgordon^{::==( o )} 05:17, 7 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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@Swyper: Would you please provide links to diffs of the plagiarism in the article and links to to the original sources? John Reaves 03:33, 7 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure how to do this, so I'll just post the appropriate passages here: "Andrew Jacobs has been a staff writer at the New York Times for the past 10 years, where he has covered a wide variety of beats, from the American South and the aftermath of Sept. 11, to New Jersey politics and the New York City Police Department." taken from http://fourseasonsmovie.com/?page_id=43 versus "Jacobs covered a number of different beats at The Times, including the American South, New York City Police Department, Manhattan Criminal Courts and New Jersey politics" from Nellie2011's latest version. I've tried to change the wording a bit (i.e. remove "beats") to make the sentences sound less similar. Swyper (talk) 03:49, 7 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]