Talk:Catch-22 (miniseries)

Blatant plagiarism

The entire “Premise” section is lifted verbatim from the article at https://deadline.com/2018/12/catch-22-george-clooneys-hulu-limited-series-first-photos-1202523127/, referenced in footnote 29.

Dodiad (talk) 20:59, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Per the above I have tagged for revdel. The violating content dates to the article creation, pinging user:BoogerD. Captainllama (talk) 17:58, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

BoogerD is no longer active and hasn't edited since February. However, this really isn't a case of plagiarism; the text wasn't added with the intention of passing it as original text; the text was added with quotes and was cited properly. This is allowed per WP:COPYQUOTE. Could the text be rewriten in someone's own words to avoid an overly-long quotation? Sure. But I don't think the plagiarism accusations and all this is really necessary. Drovethrughosts (talk) 18:06, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. (BoogerD has a ten-year gap in his editing, while we're exchanging BoogerD observations). I cited for WP:COPYVIO, not plagiarism, and made no "accusations". I realise it was cited and in quotes. WP:COPYQUOTE does say "The copied material should not comprise a substantial portion of the work being quoted…" The material here is (but for intro and outro and cast) a straight copy of the entirety of the original. But that's ok? Well... ok then. I'm no expert in this area and I jumped on it because of the serious nature of possible legal jeopardy, and for the same reason I'd have felt a little happier if an admin had been allowed to pick it up per tag. Cheers! Captainllama (talk) 21:26, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed

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