Talk:Prompt book

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This article needs a major expansion it needs to be wikified and needs more references please address the problems, than nominate it soon, thank you. Lakers 04:49, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

What sort of things would you like to see in an expansion? Also, could you quantify "wikify" a little for me please? I'm afraid someone absconded my copy of Lawrence Stern's book, there should be some useful stuff in there if someone has a copy handy. --starX 18:07, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Plagiarism found

A "db-copyvio" tag was placed because parts of this article's text were taken verbatim, without quotation marks or attribution, from a 2013 edn. of a facts101/Cram 101 study guide, ISBN 9781490274232, written to accompany the Theatre: Collaborative Acts, textbook by Ronald J. Wainscott, see citation at end of quote below.

Here is the entry for "Prompt book" in that study guide. The bold text appears verbatim in the article, and so is plagiarised:

The prompt book, transcript, the bible or sometimes simply "the book," is the copy of a production script that contains the information necessary to create a theatrical production from the gound up. It is a compilation of all blocking, business, light, speech and sound cues, lists of properties, drawings of the set, contact information for the cast and crew, and any other relevant information that might be necessary to help the production run smoothly and nicely. [opening paragraph of lede]

In modern theatrical productions, the prompt book is generally maintained and kept by the stage manager, with differences in the specific construction and organization to suit the style of the stage manager keeping the book, and the type of production (legitimate theatre, musical theatre, dance, opera, etc).. [opening sentence, second paragraph, duplicated period corrected (only difference)]

I understand that the date of the original posting of this material, in the very first 2007 edit to create the article—where a now defunct about.com citation is at least provided—calls into question the mechanism by which identical text now appears here and in this copyrighted source. (It may be that both works plagiarised a third.) What is absolutely clear is that the text, that appears, is identical to a copyrighted, on market source.

The existence of this complete and unadulterated copy and paste plagiarism from this study guide to a text book raises the possibility that further text was copied from the Wainscott textbook, or elsewhere, see the copyvio tag. Further checking is in progress.

Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 14:51, 24 April 2016 (UTC)