User:Geo Swan/exploring close paraphrasing/haaretz -a

A contributor recently excised half a dozen passages from the article on targeted killing, asserting they were copyright violations.

I am going to copy what looks like the target passages from the original articles, and use the diff function to compare it with the excised passages, to see how closely they differ.

In this particular case, after spending about five minutes trying to determine which passage from the original the exciser thought was being improperly paraphrase, and am just going to guess. I asked the exciser for clarification. They offered one sentence, and expressed surprise I couldn't identify all the sentences. I'll put the specific sentence in bold.

Should a quality control volunteer excise a whole paragraph when just when sentence is a copyright violation? How about when all but one sentence is a copyright violation? I dunno. I'll ask for more input on this.

original article excision diff Geo Swan (talk) 18:05, 23 November 2011 (UTC)


 * In order not to leave what some regard as copyvio material online I am trimming the excised passage. Compare the first two entries in the revision history to reach your own conclusion of the validity of this excision.