User talk:ADavidJohnson

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Copypasting from Wikipedia[edit]

Please don't do that, we are more professional than that here. Plutocow (talk) 00:12, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

See: plagiarism. Bongolian (talk) 02:09, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
Here's the section from Wikipedia and the expansion of it; if you can help make it copacetic, I would appreciate it. cc Plutocow--ADavidJohnson (talk)
For one thing, that has a lot of redlinks and templates we don't use here, and the fact that you're even copying stuff that says "citation needed" is a sign of sloppiness. Just use some of the linked sources to write your own text that covers the same topic. Plutocow (talk) 03:57, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
I am asking you for help to make the sizeable additions in this section that I already did fit your standards. You're saying, "Do something else," and I already did a lot, so I am asking you to help make it actually usable for your standards. I can, on my own, strip out everything that came from Wikipedia, but I think it's apparent that there's much more original work than derivative/plagiarized work in what I'm trying to contribute, and I don't think I know enough about your standards to meet them at this point, so I need help with that to actually get better at it rather than just "you did it wrong, so do it right." I also think it would be more useful to help me fix this section so there is more information for people than the "git gud" that it feels like you're doing. I'm not trying to pick a fight with you, so if there is literally anything you can do beyond telling me I'm wrong and reverting things, I would greatly appreciate you doing that. Also, I removed the "no wiki" tag from the below because I don't think it much helps to make it unreadable to others for the sake of comparison.ADavidJohnson (talk) 04:16, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
We don't want text that is copied from Wikipedia, even if there is some adjustments. Write it in your own words rather than relying on a Wikipedia copypaste. Our tone and mission is much different from Wikipedia's so stuff copied from there simply isn't adequate. Plutocow (talk) 04:26, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Schisms and internal dissent[edit]