Template:Did you know nominations/Zandra Flemister
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The result was: rejected by BorgQueen (talk) 11:16, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
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Zandra Flemister
- ... that Zandra Flemister was the first African American woman to become a U.S. Secret Service agent? Source: Asma-Sadeque, Samira. (2023-02-26). "Zandra Flemister, first Black woman in Secret Service, dies aged 71." The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/26/zandra-flemister-first-black-woman-secret-service-dies
Created by Topshelver (talk). Self-nominated at 02:24, 28 February 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Zandra Flemister; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
New enough, (barely) long enough, and not a stub. QPQ done. I'm wary of "first X to do Y" hooks, but I think this one is interesting enough. Properly sourced. However, there appears to be some inappropriate copying or close paraphrasing from the Washington Post obituary: compare our article "Consul General in Pakistan and worked as the senior State Department representative at the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center in Washington" with WaPo "consul general in Islamabad, Pakistan, and in Washington as the senior State Department representative at the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center"; compare also our article "affidavit in support of a class action lawsuit alleging rampant racial discrimination within the Secret Service" with WaPo "affidavit filed in support of a class-action lawsuit ... that alleged rampant racial discrimination within the Secret Service". This needs to be fixed before this can be promoted. —David Eppstein (talk) 03:22, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
- @David Eppstein: Thanks for the review. I made some edits - please take a look and let me know if additional edits are needed. Topshelver (talk) 13:12, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
- That is the kind of edit one makes when trying to hide plagiarism, rather than to avoid it. It keeps the overall sentence structure the same and merely replaces some words with synonyms. All content must be written in your own words, based on your understanding of the sources, rather than merely copying the source material and making cosmetic edits to disguise the fact that it is copied. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:39, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
- Topshelver, it has been over a month since you last commented at this DYK. Are you still wanting to go through with it, or are you wanting to withdraw? ♠PMC♠ (talk) 20:35, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
it's been over a week since ♠PMC♠ pinged the nominator to remind him of the outstanding issues; as such, the nomination should probably be closed up. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 21:00, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
- Topshelver, it has been over a month since you last commented at this DYK. Are you still wanting to go through with it, or are you wanting to withdraw? ♠PMC♠ (talk) 20:35, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
- That is the kind of edit one makes when trying to hide plagiarism, rather than to avoid it. It keeps the overall sentence structure the same and merely replaces some words with synonyms. All content must be written in your own words, based on your understanding of the sources, rather than merely copying the source material and making cosmetic edits to disguise the fact that it is copied. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:39, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
- @David Eppstein: Thanks for the review. I made some edits - please take a look and let me know if additional edits are needed. Topshelver (talk) 13:12, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
