User talk:Racepacket

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Request reason:

The blocking Admin gave his reasons on User talk:Bilby. He cites eight examples prompting his action. I believe that each edit was permissible. 1) The Feb 2 RSMAS edit - I inserted one paraphrased sentence, and it would be impossible to convey this fact without paraphrasing it in some fashion. 2) Landis Report - I incorporated a sentence from Administrative Conference of the United States which apparently is the same as a sentence on a public domain government webpage. 3) Phillips v. Wisconsin - When summarizing the background of the case, I paraphrased from a public domain court decision. 4) Mike Lee - I paraphrased one sentence from the source indicated, and it would be a distortion to depart much from this formulation. 5) Johnson Museum - I used two facts from a part of a sentence in the first example, I used the headings and four photographers' names in the second example to summarize the permanent collection. Again, it impossible to describe an art musuem collection without some similar text, and this small amount of discontinuous text is permissible. 6) Decerega - I paraphrased facts in a different sequence. One sentence is the same. 7) Mbata - paraphrased selected facts in a different order. 8) BlackRock Center for the Arts - I incorporated two sentences from Germantown, Montgomery County, Maryland#Culture, which is similar to one sentence cited by admin. An examination of the contrib history of the Admin for the period in question suggests he may not have been in a good mood, using edit summaries like "The hubris!" and "Damn, damn damn, piss and shit; I'm going to have to spend $30 to look at one article that i'm not even sure is the right one" during his recent edits. Again, I am aware of Wikipedia's policies and do my best to comply with them.

Decline reason:

Let's see:

Maybe six words changed in a lengthy cut-and-paste
Direct cut and paste, no alteration
More direct cut and paste, no significant alteration
Again, more cut and paste. Original: he has partnered with Champions for Children, a charity event that benefits Children’s Memorial Hospital. He has donated two ringside seats, air travel and hotel for Saturday’s event. Copy: Lee has partnered with Champions for Children, a charity event that benefits Children’s Memorial Hospital. He has donated two ringside seats, air travel and hotel for his November 2010 fight. That's not a paraphrase.
More cut-and-paste, entire sentence lifted unchanged
Entire sentences lifted unchanged
Changing the order of sentences is not paraphrasing

That you are "doing your best" to comply is not adequate; policy doesn't require attempts at compliance, it requires compliance. Your understanding of our copyright policies is very flawed, even though you assert your awareness of them. --jpgordon^{::==( o )} 16:23, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: Wikipedia policy allows copying/paraphrasing from public domain sources and from other wikipedia pages, which was not addressed by either admin.

Your unblock request must be retained. If you remove it again, you will lose the ability to edit your talk page. --Rs chen 7754 04:17, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It is important to note that on 03:36, 11 December 2010 (UTC) User:Rschen7754 left the following comment for me on his review of Virginia State Route 27:

It's just tacky to quote in the second sentence, when it's pretty easy to paraphrase it yourself.

To which I replied, "I can't paraphrase it any better and don't want to be guilty of a close paraphrase." So on the one hand, the people who were failing GA reviews for failure to paraphrase are gleefully exploiting the situation as an "opportunity."