Talk:Troubadour/Archives/2018

Removed plagiarism

Hi all, I've removed and reworked part of the Arabist section of "Origins" as it was blatantly, word-for-word plagiarized from pages 8-10 of http://www.muslimheritage.com/uploads/Music2.pdf by WP: Jagged 85 cleanup, originally at [1]. The site is not mentioned anywhere on the page. The source itself is an unreliable religious website (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_18#History_of_Science) and I think a quick look at those few pages will show why.... I've kept what I could salvage and find actual sources for. I've also: elaborated upon Lévi-Provençal’s assertions (babarian/babariol), inserted a couple of sentences explaining what exactly he was claiming and how others viewed these claims; removed Ezra Pound as he was not a scholar; followed the sentence of Ramón Menéndez Pidal’s assertions about the Reconquista with dissenting opinions regarding the historical validity of such claims; and put in a more accurate summation of Magda Bogin’s views has been added and sourced from her work. The reference to the Toledo School of Translators has been left in but with an added note that such romances were not part of the translation work until a later date. Cheers. Dragoon17 (talk) 18:52, 17 September 2018 (UTC)