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::Could you please elaborate? I don't really see it... '''<font color="navy">[[User:NuclearWarfare|NW]]</font>''' ''(<font color="green">[[User talk:NuclearWarfare|Talk]]</font>)'' 02:09, 31 October 2010 (UTC) |
::Could you please elaborate? I don't really see it... '''<font color="navy">[[User:NuclearWarfare|NW]]</font>''' ''(<font color="green">[[User talk:NuclearWarfare|Talk]]</font>)'' 02:09, 31 October 2010 (UTC) |
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:::Note, that IP has been blocked one week (not by me BTW) <span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — [[User:Rlevse|<b style="color:#060;"><i>R</i>levse</b>]] • [[User_talk:Rlevse|<span style="color:#990;">Talk</span>]] • </span> 02:16, 31 October 2010 (UTC) |
:::Note, that IP has been blocked one week (not by me BTW) <span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — [[User:Rlevse|<b style="color:#060;"><i>R</i>levse</b>]] • [[User_talk:Rlevse|<span style="color:#990;">Talk</span>]] • </span> 02:16, 31 October 2010 (UTC) |
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:::There are a couple of sentences that fairly closely mirrow what's said in the ''USA Today'' article, which is what I guess is what's being got at: |
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:::*From ''USA Today'': "No one was executed for witchcraft in Virginia, although Katherine Grady was hanged in 1654 aboard an English ship bound for Virginia when passengers blamed her for causing a storm, Pollard said." |
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:::*From the article: "None of these Virginia cases resulted in execution, but Katherine Grady was hanged on board an English ship bound for Virginia in 1654 after passengers accused her of causing a storm." |
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:::*From ''USA Today'': "The latest Virginia witchcraft case was in 1802 in Brooke County, now part of West Virginia. A couple accused a woman of being a witch and the court ruled that was slander. That was a frequent result in such cases, with people fined for bringing false charges, Pollard said." |
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:::*From the article: "The last Virginia witchcraft trial took place in 1802 in Brooke County, now part of West Virginia. A couple accused a woman of being a witch, which the court ruled was slander. This was a frequent outcome in such cases and fines were often imposed on those bringing the false charges." |
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:::They do look fairly close, but I'm not sure I'd say that three pretty closely structured sentences merits the description of plagiarism, and certainly not of that whole section. [[User:Malleus Fatuorum|Malleus]] [[User_talk:Malleus_Fatuorum|Fatuorum]] 02:25, 31 October 2010 (UTC) |
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It looks to me like the "cultural background" section was copied verbatim from the USA Today article http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-07-09-witch-pungo_x.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.175.113.16 (talk) 02:03, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
- hardly, esp since there are a couple dozen refs in that section and that ref is only used twice in that section. — Rlevse • Talk • 02:06, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
- There are a couple of sentences that fairly closely mirrow what's said in the USA Today article, which is what I guess is what's being got at:
- From USA Today: "No one was executed for witchcraft in Virginia, although Katherine Grady was hanged in 1654 aboard an English ship bound for Virginia when passengers blamed her for causing a storm, Pollard said."
- From the article: "None of these Virginia cases resulted in execution, but Katherine Grady was hanged on board an English ship bound for Virginia in 1654 after passengers accused her of causing a storm."
- There are a couple of sentences that fairly closely mirrow what's said in the USA Today article, which is what I guess is what's being got at:
- From USA Today: "The latest Virginia witchcraft case was in 1802 in Brooke County, now part of West Virginia. A couple accused a woman of being a witch and the court ruled that was slander. That was a frequent result in such cases, with people fined for bringing false charges, Pollard said."
- From the article: "The last Virginia witchcraft trial took place in 1802 in Brooke County, now part of West Virginia. A couple accused a woman of being a witch, which the court ruled was slander. This was a frequent outcome in such cases and fines were often imposed on those bringing the false charges."