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A fact from Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 November 2008, and was viewed approximately 1,110 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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This page received a large text dump (11,000 bytes) on 8 July 2013 from User:Sjaddade without any inline citations. The same text appears verbatim on the website for art historian Stéphane-Jacques Addade (now listed in sources). The information looked solid — it appears that user Sjaddade was simply uploading their own research — but as there was no indication that this text is copyright-free, I have gone through and cleaned it up so that what is on Wikipedia should now be free of copyvio and any COI issues. Alafarge (talk) 20:54, 6 September 2017 (UTC)Reply
Well caught, Alafarge! Unfortunately, unless Addade happens to decide to release the content of his website to us through the OTRS system, no part of it can be kept here (it is of course very possible that Sjaddade is the same person, but we can't be sure or make assumptions). At the moment, despite your work, there is still considerable (and unacceptable) overlap, even if some of it is just book titles and the like. The best way to remove that would be to revert to this version, and then build from there. Would that work for you?
@Justlettersandnumbers: It might not surprise you that my first thought was to revert to the version immediately prior to Sjaddade's additions, but I didn't want to wipe out other people's intervening work if possible. As it is, in trying to curtail the copyvio and improve the sourcing (as well as address other issues), I took out almost half the page (8000 bytes). As far as how to deal with the remaining overlap, how to do this beyond a certain point frankly puzzles me. There are after all only so many ways to say X was born in Y or X won Y medal or X wrote Y book— the facts of a life. Thanks to your link, I do see a few places remaining where further rewriting is in order, but I really don't know what to do about the rest. Is the solution really to have a page in which major facts of the person's life must be eliminated? Even if we reverted the page and then built it back up, there will surely end up being a lot of overlap again since the facts will all be there once more. In any case, I'm happy to keep working on it. (And I'm sure you're right about the other two pages, which I haven't had time to look at.) Cheers, Alafarge (talk) 16:25, 7 September 2017 (UTC)Reply
