Talk:Thomas Leighton Williams
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OCR text?
[edit]The types of error in this text makes it seem very likely that it's been scanned in and OCR'ed from a pape source. That's a copyright violation, but can't be verified in the usual way by using Google.
I'm putting a prod tag on this as unsourced; if someone knows where it came from, please replace it with a summary and an external reference. --Alvestrand 05:28, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
- I see no evidence that this is a copyright violation, nor of a proliferation of OCR-type errors. Googling finds no hits apart from Wikipedia. It could be from a source released to the public domain. Espresso Addict 00:50, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
- A few of the errors (tilde substituted for characters, "of" being recognized as "c", last character being dropped from words) were repaired by User:Bathcover. But - almost nobody writes this kind of prose at one sitting; that's the main reason to suspect that it came from some copied source. And even if the source is in the public domain, Wikipedia policy requires that we attribute it properly.
- BTW, good reference. Now we can cut back the article to what's verifiable from the reference, since we have no way of verifying the rest.. --Alvestrand 14:08, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Copyvio
[edit]This is a straight copy of the article "Williams, Thomas Cuthbert Leighton" in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:37, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you. I've created a clean stub. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:19, 23 October 2012 (UTC)