Template:Did you know nominations/Stan Pitt

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was not promoted after 31 days. The closing paraphrasing issues raised by Cuchullain (talk · contribs) have not been addressed by the nominator after 10 days. If the nominator addresses the close paraphrasing concerns within the next five days, I am willing to reopen the nomination. Cunard (talk) 09:45, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Stan Pitt edit

Created/expanded by Dan arndt (talk). Self nom at 10:09, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

  • Dates and expansion both good and hook fact confirmed. Unfortunately there appears to be plagiarism issues as a spot check of another fact found the following:
Article: Stan's artwork was inspired by his idol, Alex Raymond, the Flash Gordon artist.[3]
Source: Stan's artwork was inspired by his idol, Alex Raymond, the Flash Gordon artist.
Rest of article needs to be thoroughly checked before promotion. --Allen3 talk 14:27, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
  • Was a direct quote from the newspaper article - have modified & provided additional reference. Dan arndt (talk) 01:21, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

There is further plagiarism in the article. Another example:

Article: "The brothers prepared high-quality bromides (black and white photoprints) of the sample art pages, which Stan hand-tinted using coloured inks."
Source:[1] "The brothers prepared high-quality bromides (black & white photoprints) of the sample art pages, which Stan hand-tinted using coloured inks."

Other sentences are far to close to the sources as well. This needs to be vetted closely.--Cúchullain t/c 21:19, 4 November 2011 (UTC)