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The result was: promoted by Keilana (talk) 02:44, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
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Ralph Townsend
edit- ... that Ralph Townsend was described as "the most adamant and extreme of the voices in America defending Japanese policy"?
- Reviewed: Spruce Run (Buffalo Creek)
Improved to Good Article status by CurtisNaito (talk). Nominated by Sovereign Sentinel (talk) at 16:06, 15 August 2015 (UTC).
- @CurtisNaito: @Sovereign Sentinel: This is a GA that has a lot of similar phrasing to [http://www.general-books.net/sw2.cfm?q=Ralph_Townsend this
reference]. Not sure who copied whom? Can you explain? Victuallers (talk) 14:40, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
- I am the primary contributor to the article, and I was not aware of general-books.net at the time I wrote it.CurtisNaito (talk) 16:32, 27 August 2015 (UTC) Thanks for the reply. Can you confirm that this text (general-books.net) is copied without attribution from your original text? Victuallers (talk) 12:29, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Victuallers: The general-books.net page mentions our Wikipedia article as the "Source"; it is copied from us. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:24, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for clearing that up. At least it shows that we do check for close paraphrasing, sorry I missed the credit on the mirror site. Well, this is a GA with more than enough refs and the hook is reffed to an AGF source. Its neutral and it and the hook are interesting. Thanks for creating this GA. Victuallers (talk) 18:10, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
- @Victuallers: The general-books.net page mentions our Wikipedia article as the "Source"; it is copied from us. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:24, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
- I am the primary contributor to the article, and I was not aware of general-books.net at the time I wrote it.CurtisNaito (talk) 16:32, 27 August 2015 (UTC) Thanks for the reply. Can you confirm that this text (general-books.net) is copied without attribution from your original text? Victuallers (talk) 12:29, 29 August 2015 (UTC)