Template:Did you know nominations/Measures of gender equality

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The result was: rejected by BlueMoonset (talk) 20:12, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
Close paraphrasing issues, and copied material from other Wikipedia articles requires 5x expansion, which wasn't done and is not feasible.

Measures of gender equality

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... that there are over 300 measures of gender equality, many of them collected in several major indices?

Reviewed: Blow book

Created by Piotrus (talk). Self nominated at 10:17, 14 August 2014 (UTC).

Article was created on August 11. This was nom'ed three days later within the time limit. Article is long-enough. Mentioned in article with an inline citation (ref is offline but AGF). No copyright vio, fine policy wise. Hook is within length-limit and it is interesting and punctual. Good to go. NickGibson3900 ^Talk 23:13, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Article copies extensively from other Wikipedia articles without proper attribution - see WP:CWW. Nikkimaria (talk) 04:35, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
- Suuure. Easy to fix. Done. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:08, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
  - Not so easy to fix, actually: in addition to the problems caused by intra-Wiki copying, the article also contains copying from external sources - compare for example "It is based on information available that can be compared internationally, and it makes it possible to classify countries and rank them in accordance with a selection of gender inequity indicators in three dimensions, education, economic participation and empowerment" with "The GEI is based on information available that can be compared internationally, and it makes it possible to classify countries and rank them in accordance with a selection of gender inequity indicators in three dimensions, education, economic participation and empowerment" from this source (among others). Nikkimaria (talk) 15:49, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
  - There is also very close paraphrasing of cited sources - compare "Focusing on socioeconomic opportunities, it has been criticized for ignoring underlying causes of gender inequality such as health" with "focuses on socioeconomic opportunities...the GEI also ignores other important dimensions of gender inequality such as health". Nikkimaria (talk) 16:03, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Closing comment: in addition to the very close paraphrasing, a large proportion of this article was copied from pre-existing Wikipedia articles. Per WP:DYKSG#A5, If some of the text were copied from another Wikipedia article, then it must be expanded fivefold as if the copied text had been a separate article. For this article, the lion's share of the GDI and GEM sections are exact copies (837 and 1423 characters respectively are copied), and the SIGI section copies another 276. (There may be additional shorter phrases, but I haven't bothered counting them.) In this case, 2536 of the article's 6821 prose characters are copied from pre-existing articles, over 37% of the total. To get a 5x expansion, at least 12,680 prose characters would be needed, which doesn't seem feasible to me under the circumstances. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:12, 2 October 2014 (UTC)