Talk:William T. Miller

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removed tag and revised. Racepacket (talk) 02:36, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

William T. Miller

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This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of William T. Miller, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.news.cornell.edu/http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/98/12.3.98/obit.html. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details.

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I have reviewed the article and the source in question and agree that the article is almost entirely a paraphrase of the copyrighted source. It is not a direct cut-and-paste, but it follows the same progression and contains the same content, just slightly reworded. —Notyourbroom (talk) 02:41, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A clarifying note on the above: I was comparing this version of the article to the original source. The later revision was a clear improvement, but more can be done, I think. —Notyourbroom (talk) 03:14, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In my mind, the easiest way to break an article paraphrase is to pull in information from more sources and intersperse it as appropriate. Thus, I'm trying to find more solid sources to use to diversify the article, but I am not having much success. He plays a large role in this article about renovations of Baker Lab, but only as a source of information for the reporter. Here is a notice of his promotion to full faculty member, but that's also of little use here. This is just a brief profile/CV. I'll bet the Sun ran an obituary/feature on him, but that seems to be lost in the date gap between what the archives have and what the website has. —Notyourbroom (talk) 03:05, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you. But the single word "Flourine" summarizes most of what I found. I also checked back issues of the Chemistry Dept. Newsletter and could not find a writeup. Racepacket (talk) 17:12, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Just noticed that the profile/CV up on the department website has a link to some kind of mini biography/eulogy. —Notyourbroom (talk) 20:10, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]