Talk:Paul Wood (author)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by Narutolovehinata5 (talk) 11:58, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
Nominator has been blocked indefinitely for repeated copyvio violations.

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• ... that Paul Wood started a PhD while doing a prison sentence for murder, being the first person in New Zealand to get an undergraduate degree, complete a masters degree, and start a doctorate in prison? Source: "He was the first person in New Zealand history to get an undergrad and then masters degree in prison - the first to begin a doctorate while behind bars." link
  • ALT1:... that Paul Wood started a PhD in psychology while in prison for murder, being the first person in New Zealand to get an undergraduate degree, complete a masters, and start a PhD in prison?? Source: same as above

Created/expanded by Nexus000 (talk). Self-nominated at 12:58, 8 July 2021 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral: - Article almost reads neutrally after I did some cleaning up, but it still needs work (especially in light of the amount of copyvio).
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - Article has fairly significant copyvio given its length vs the amount of content which is copied.

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: The article is new enough and just long enough to make the cut, but it has significant issues. A decent amount of the brief text is directly copied from other articles, making it ineligible for DYK. This has to be fixed before the hook can be approved. There was also a significant amount of non-neutral phrasing and some uncited info. I made some edits to the page to make it more neutral and encyclopedic, which is hard because most of the sources are feel-good type articles. The page doesn't have to be great, but it does need to meet basic guidelines. I am proposing ALT1 if the article gets improved because I think the fact that he studied psychology makes it more interesting. BuySomeApples (talk) 02:42, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

• @Nexus000: FYI, copyvio is one of the most serious issues on Wikipedia. The articles that you seem to have copied the most are [1], [2], [3] and [4]. You will either have to rewrite or completely remove any content copied from them. BuySomeApples (talk) 02:42, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

• That is, unfortunately, a copyvio from a repeat offender. I've blocked the nominator. In the target article, I've reworded some of the copyvio and deleted other stuff. The article is now significantly too short to qualify for DYK. Schwede66 05:51, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Copyvio

I've reworded some parts that were copied word-for-word from the source. I removed other material completely; the sources that refer to that are here. Schwede66 06:15, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

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