User talk:Lbramson

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September 2012
Hello, I'm Smkolins. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Bahá'í Faith in Nigeria without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. The removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Smkolins (talk) 03:43, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

concerns about plagerism
There is a serious misunderstanding. I do not and never have had access to that article by Bramson-Lerche. It is just footnoted that such an article exists. There is no plagiarism. I wrote the article based purely and exclusively based on the references present in the article on the Faith in Nigeria. Smkolins (talk) 16:08, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * truly - how could you have written "Estimates of membership vary widely - a 2001 estimate byOperation World showed 1000 Bahá'ís in 2001[5] while the Association of Religion Data Archives (relying on World Christian Encyclopedia) estimated some 34,000 Bahá'ís in 2005.[6]" with references from a story in 1992. I tell you in good faith I did no such thing. I've now clarified this in the article - that it is a paper for further reading. There is a similar thing on the Baha'i Faith in Italy article. Smkolins (talk) 16:17, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

From: Loni Bramson

I gave you an easy out, to remove the paragraph with my name. I can prove plagiarism. I will give you until Friday evening to remove that paragraph or I will take this further. I tried to edit it out myself, but you refuse to allow me.

'''You classified it as "Further Reading," which is acceptable. Thank you. However, there is still plagiarism. Nevertheless, since there is so much plagiarism on Wikipedia, we can leave it at that. Unhappy Historian 00:58, 13 September 2012 (UTC)Loni Bramson'''

Your recent edits
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Your statements regarding plagirism
I was asked as a third party to review your conflict with User:Smkolins and the Baha'i Faith in Nigeria page. There are couple germane points here. Another important point, threats to other editors like the one you made here are not taken lightly in Wikipedia. Making such threats can lead you to be blocked in Wikipedia, and I would suggest you not make those types of threats any longer. As it stands now, I see no reason for removing the statements you are removing, and I will help restore them if you keep removing them. Warm regards, -- Jeff3000 (talk) 03:31, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) Plagiarism is an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization. Citing on the other hand is "serving to identify the reliable sources on which the article is based".
 * 2) In the case of the material you are removing from the Baha'i Faith in Nigeria page, there is no content from the source that is copying directly the content of the source material, but rather citing that there exists source material. This is clearly not plagiarism.
 * 3) Wikipedia is built on citations as the one you are removing, and the type of citations are quite legal.