Talk:Next-Generation Transit Survey

Copyright problem removed

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Despite sterling efforts to eliminate the copyvio problem here by copy-editing, substantial overlap with sources remained, as this comparison shows. In general it is safest to follow the (rather ungrammatical) advice on the bot notice: "Note that simply modified or rephrased text is still an infringement—to remove the copyrighted contents you will need to completely remove them and then write totally new text to replace it". That's what I've done here; I'm not an astronomer, so I apologise in advance for any errors I may have unwittingly introduced. Also, unless there has been a very recent change, the Creative Commons 4.0 licence is apparently not compatible here, though it seems to be OK on Commons. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:25, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for calling my efforts "sterling", but they weren't. They were really just an emergency patch to prevent the article from being deleted entirely. I've intended to do a complete rewrite using multiple sources, but I haven't yet had a chance to do so. What you've written is pretty good. No need to apologize! Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 17:48, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Completely rewritten and tested for copyvio

Tested text with Earwig's Copyvio Detector with a score of 34.6%. Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 15:15, 26 May 2015 (UTC)