Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Morris Janowitz


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   speedy keep. No valid deletion rationale advanced, and the claim that this is a copyvio (which would merit stubbing down or speedy, not AfD) has been debunked by the timing of the source publications. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:53, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Morris Janowitz

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This article have been copied and pasted from several sources. Hakken (talk) 17:54, 14 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep -- this article should have its copyright issues fixed, not have the article deleted. You can help! And I encourage you to do so. TeriEmbrey (talk) 19:21, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. NewYorkActuary (talk) 04:35, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions. NewYorkActuary (talk) 04:35, 15 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep - There's nothing in the nomination (or on the talk page) providing evidence or information about the alleged problematic copying/pasting. It may well be true, but it would have to be such that none of the content is usable per COPYVIO, since the subject is clearly notable. &mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 05:18, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep, no valid argument for deletion advanced. Earwig's tool reports that a copyright violation is unlikely. In any case, copying can be easily fixed, no need to delete. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 07:44, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Looking at the page history, it seems  suspected copying from this PhD dissertation. The dissertation only mentions Janowitz once, and although there is a strong similarity between this passage and Morris Janowitz, that text has been in our article since June 2011 and the dissertation was submitted in 2014. So if any plagiarism has occured, it's more likely to be in the other direction which would be, well, a major oops for the author, but not our problem. And anyway, to reiterate, copyvio issues can be fixed without deleting the article. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 08:02, 15 September 2017 (UTC)


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