Talk:Frank Hedges Butler

I certainly didn't cut and paste from this website, which in fact I have never seen: the material comes from the cited sources. Any resemblance is coincidental: biographies tend to have the same information in similar order, and sometimes it is almost impossible to avoid using identical or very similar phraseology.TheLongTone (talk) 10:52, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Regarding sources, I note that the bot-identified source uses much the same phrasing as the ODNB article, which in turn is very similar to the obit in The TimesTheLongTone (talk) 08:10, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
 * It could be (I don't have access to either to be able to check). The point here, however, is not where artwarefineart.com got its content from, but where the content in this article came from. It seems to me unacceptably close to the supposed source. Examples:


 * That seems to me to be a closer resemblance than could be accounted for by coincidence - as, say, "was born in London on 17 December 1855" reasonably might be. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:23, 4 August 2014 (UTC)


 * I've edited or removed the offending phrase.TheLongTone (talk) 13:13, 4 August 2014 (UTC)