Talk:Betsy Rawls

Duplicate text in this article & University of Texas page
I am putting this here to ensure that text is not indiscriminately removed from this article. There is duplicate text in Betsy Rawls & https://web2.ph.utexas.edu/utphysicshistory/ElizabethERawls.html, as can be seen here:


 * Duplicate Detector: (enwiki:Betsy Rawls & UTPhysicsHistorySite Elizabeth Earle “Betsy” Rawls)

I think that the text may have been copied from the Wikipedia article to the UT page, but I cannot definitively determine this. Here is what I can discern:
 * All the duplicate texts of five words or more appear in the Amateur career & Professional career sections of a September 2012 version.
 * "won" was inserted into the sentence "She also the 1949 Trans-National and the 1950 Broadmoor Invitational." in this .
 * The whole of the "She also won the 1949 Trans-National and the 1950 Broadmoor Invitational." appears in the UTPhysicsHistorySite Elizabeth Earle “Betsy” Rawls article. Presumably this would have only occurred after the grammar correction.
 * The modified date for UTPhysicsHistorySite Elizabeth Earle “Betsy” Rawls is dynamically generated to the current date & time. The earliest copy at web.archive.org is 2018-02-27.
 * The latest dated item in the source code for ElizabethERawls.html is this image:
 * Screen Shot 2014-07-08 at 4.08.52 PM.jpg
 * Please note the date of the screen shot in the file name, 2014-07-08, occurs about nearly 20 months after the text in question appeared in the Wikipedia article.

I therefore believe that someone copied unattributed text from the September 2012 article to the UT web page, even though the UTPhysicsHistorySite Elizabeth Earle “Betsy” Rawls web page contains "Acknowledgement: Thanks to Betsy Rawls for some of her recollections about her UT years and career."

Because of this, I believe that ElizabethERawls.html is not a reliable source because it uses Wikipedia as a source. We are not currently using it as a source, but we should remove it if someone adds it as a reference, or make a note the discrepancy if someone adds it to the External links section.

Peaceray (talk) 18:10, 27 February 2018 (UTC)