The article was removed by Nikkimaria 02:08, 12 September 2011 [1].
I am nominating this featured article for review primarily because of plagiarism and copyright concerns that will result in a substantially smaller, less thorough and non-'criteria meeting' article when cleaned. The article was promoted in August 2005 and much of it is copied/close-paraphrased from The Story of Civilizaton by Will and Ariel Durant (starting PDF page 69). The work was published in 1963 and the copyright renewed in 1991. This article does not meet FA criteria right now and it is unlikely it will in the near future. Aside from the copyvio, there is citation and lead concerns. Concerns about plagiarism and FA criteria have been on the article talk since March/November 2010 and it was just reported to WP:CP recently. I have cleaned some text out already and will continue clean more. See the CP report and talk page for more details.-- NortyNort (Holla) 03:40, 15 July 2011 (UTC) reply
This matter is being discussed elsewhere: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics#Blaise_Pascal_at_FAR. Michael Hardy ( talk) 00:43, 20 July 2011 (UTC) reply
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The article was removed by Nikkimaria 02:08, 12 September 2011 [1].
I am nominating this featured article for review primarily because of plagiarism and copyright concerns that will result in a substantially smaller, less thorough and non-'criteria meeting' article when cleaned. The article was promoted in August 2005 and much of it is copied/close-paraphrased from The Story of Civilizaton by Will and Ariel Durant (starting PDF page 69). The work was published in 1963 and the copyright renewed in 1991. This article does not meet FA criteria right now and it is unlikely it will in the near future. Aside from the copyvio, there is citation and lead concerns. Concerns about plagiarism and FA criteria have been on the article talk since March/November 2010 and it was just reported to WP:CP recently. I have cleaned some text out already and will continue clean more. See the CP report and talk page for more details.-- NortyNort (Holla) 03:40, 15 July 2011 (UTC) reply
This matter is being discussed elsewhere: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics#Blaise_Pascal_at_FAR. Michael Hardy ( talk) 00:43, 20 July 2011 (UTC) reply
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