Template:Did you know nominations/Governor of Tennessee

The following discussion 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: promoted by Miyagawa (talk) 22:47, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Governor of Tennessee

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... that the Governor is the only state government official in Tennessee who is directly elected by the voters of the entire state?

Reviewed: Sandusky County Jail and Sheriff's House

Created/expanded by Orlady (talk). Self nom at 05:08, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

 Article NOT approved as I am finding too many sentences that are word-for-word or very close parapharsing, otherwise article length (~2500 characters) and date (Jan 25) are fine. I run it through The Plagiarism Checker and many sentences show up as plagiarised.--Doug Coldwell ^talk 12:18, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

As an example: This is what The Plagiarism Checker shows:

Governor of Tennessee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_TennesseeCached You +1'd this publicly. Undo
The Tennessee governor can veto laws passed by the Tennessee General Assembly and has line-item veto authority for individual spending items included in ...
Governor_of_Tennessee - by SriLankaNewsWeb.comwww.srilankanewsweb.com/wiki-Governor_of_TennesseeCached You +1'd this publicly. Undo
The Tennessee governor can veto laws passed by the Tennessee General Assembly and has line-item veto authority for individual spending items included in.....

I was astonished and hurt to read that conclusion, as I had worked to avoid both verbatim wording and close paraphrasing -- not easy to do when addressing a topic like "the powers of the governor," which are based on legal documents that tend to be pretty tersely worded. I dutifully copied the text of the article into the linked plagiarism checker and found the problem -- it seems that "your student's paper" is possible plagiarism of the Wikipedia article entitled "Governor of Tennessee"! (It also is identified as plagiarism of a Sri Lankan website that republishes Wikipedia content.) Please don't flunk me for "plagiarizing" my own article!

If there are issues with too-close wording related to the sources cited, I'd like to hear about them... --Orlady (talk) 15:18, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

O.K. Now I see. It is a mirror. Sorry.--Doug Coldwell ^talk 15:22, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. You had me worried there! I saw the edits you made to the article (particularly the edits identified as removing text copied verbatim from the source) before I looked at this page, and I spent time poring over the sources I had used, trying to figure out where you were seeing copying. For what it's worth, I've added some additional content to the article since you did the DYK review. --Orlady (talk) 16:30, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Article length (~2500 characters) and date (Jan 25) are fine. No copyvio or plagiarism concerns, reliable sources are used. Online reference verified. --Doug Coldwell ^talk 15:25, 30 January 2012 (UTC)