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Confederation of Madya-as
This peer review discussion has been closed. I've listed this article for peer review because I think this new article is a potential for re-classifying it as C or anywhere than Start. I am also a bit confused if this article is violating WP rules because many huge chunk of information were copy-pasted anywhere.

Thanks,  JL 09  q? c|undefined 14:19, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Brianboulton comments:-

The following extracts from the article's History section are exact or nearly exact copies of the wording in your online source. Please note that these are given as examples; there may well be other, similar extracts:-
 * early in the thirteenth century, a group of datus, namely, Sumakwel, Bangkaya, Paiburong, Paduhinog, Dumangsol, Dumangsil, Dumaluglog, Balkasusa, and Lubay who were lead by Datu Puti and a thousand followers, took to the sea in their barangays and sailed northward
 * Datu Bangkaya and his people stayed in at Madyanos, but Paiburog and his people went farther south and upstream lured by the Mangkosarok. They went further and further south until one day, they realized that Mangkosarok had vanished. But they went on south anyway to Irong-irong
 * Datu Puti left for farther explorations to the north after assuring himself that his people were secure in their new home. Before he departed, he designated, Datu Sumakwel, being the eldest, as the chief datu of Panay.
 * In 1213, Datu Sumakwel convoked the council of datus to a conference for the purpose of drawing up plans for their common defense and a system of government for the Island. Six articles were adopted and promulgated, which came to be known as Articles of Confederation of Madya-as, and which historians have come to refer to as the first written constitution of the Philippines.

In the whole article there is only one citation to the online source; none of the above statements are cited. This is plagiarism as defined by WP:Plagiarism. Any verbatim quotes from a source need to be in quotation marks and clearly cited. Such quotations should be short; in the main you should paraphrase the source information using your own words. If this is not clear to you, please contact my talkpage and I will try to explain further. The article cannot be reviewed until it has been substantially rewritten with proper regard to WP:Plagiarism. Brianboulton (talk) 00:28, 14 October 2009 (UTC)