Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2020 January 12

12 January 2020
Fixed the problems with this article But user still sees copy vio, which I already explained to him doesn't exist. As of this edit the article is copy vio free, at least from my view.--Biografer (talk) 20:35, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Mohamed Trebak ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite)


 * I recognize the difficulties in trying to give the plain facts of someone's career in a different form from the CV source (or, in this case, the university page source, which is not the full CV). The names of the positions will be the same; the names of the universities will be the same. This is especially true for listings of honours. The difficulty is that though we can change the words, we cannot very well change the order of sentences, because it has to be done in chronological order. (The material for this is typically taken from a reliable but not necessarily independent source; the full CV when available is such a source, the abbreviated description on the university page is what is normally used, tho it is not quite as reliable. (The full CV is a document used for promotion purposes, and in the academic world the fairly rare cases of something being wrongly stated in a significant way usually leads to a well-publicized scandal; the university page is often prepared by the PR staff, even if written in the first person, and tends to simplify things, and, if it matters to notability or there's a serious question about accuracy, things there have to be confirmed. I can go into the details of this elsewhere)

---filling in the blans now 
 * What was done here was to take a single source at  and omit or change a few words, & excerpt a few of the lines from the honours list in the same source. I will typically divide the article in sections, and try to add at least some material from some other source, even if its another non-independent university page. I'll add missing dates if I can find them; I will use different arrangement to give the sequence of positions, rather than follow the sentence structure.  For honors, even they can be expressed differently. In thecurrentcase, instead of the source's   or the editor's  , I might have said.  DGG ( talk ) 22:53, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Moot - the article will remain deleted per CSD G5. MER-C 02:11, 13 January 2020 (UTC)