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Governor of Tennessee

 * ... that the Governor is the only state government official in Tennessee who is directly elected by the voters of the entire state?
 * Reviewed: Sandusky County Jail and Sheriff's House

Created/expanded by Orlady (talk). Self nom at 05:08, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Article NOT approved as I am finding too many sentences that are word-for-word or very close parapharsing, otherwise article length (~2500 characters) and date (Jan 25) are fine. I run it through The Plagiarism Checker and many sentences show up as plagiarised.--Doug Coldwell talk 12:18, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
 * As an example: This is what The Plagiarism Checker shows:

Governor of Tennessee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_TennesseeCached You +1'd this publicly. Undo

The Tennessee governor can veto laws passed by the Tennessee General Assembly and has line-item veto authority for individual spending items included in ...

Governor_of_Tennessee - by SriLankaNewsWeb.comwww.srilankanewsweb.com/wiki-Governor_of_TennesseeCached You +1'd this publicly. Undo

The Tennessee governor can veto laws passed by the Tennessee General Assembly and has line-item veto authority for individual spending items included in.....


 * I was astonished and hurt to read that conclusion, as I had worked to avoid both verbatim wording and close paraphrasing -- not easy to do when addressing a topic like "the powers of the governor," which are based on legal documents that tend to be pretty tersely worded. I dutifully copied the text of the article into the linked plagiarism checker and found the problem -- it seems that "your student's paper" is possible plagiarism of the Wikipedia article entitled "Governor of Tennessee"! (It also is identified as plagiarism of a Sri Lankan website that republishes Wikipedia content.) Please don't flunk me for "plagiarizing" my own article!
 * If there are issues with too-close wording related to the sources cited, I'd like to hear about them... --Orlady (talk) 15:18, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
 * O.K. Now I see. It is a mirror. Sorry.--Doug Coldwell talk 15:22, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. You had me worried there! I saw the edits you made to the article (particularly the edits identified as removing text copied verbatim from the source) before I looked at this page, and I spent time poring over the sources I had used, trying to figure out where you were seeing copying. For what it's worth, I've added some additional content to the article since you did the DYK review. --Orlady (talk) 16:30, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Article length (~2500 characters) and date (Jan 25) are fine. No copyvio or plagiarism concerns, reliable sources are used. Online reference verified. --Doug Coldwell talk 15:25, 30 January 2012 (UTC)