Talk:How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life

message: I corrected the Rushdie quote to match the primary source rather than the ref cited, which was in error. Much as I dislike Rushdie's writing style, he is way too clever to misuse an apostrophe like that. --John (talk) 01:31, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corrected Rushdie quote 

message: I changed some wording in a sentence and a heading that was calling the plagiarism "alleged plagiarism." No while I know we have to be objective and not make assumptions in our writing, at this point nobody is claiming that plagiarism did not happen. Both the author and the publisher (at least at first, by dropping the book entirely later they suggest the problems were more serious than they first realized) were claiming that all of the copying without permission were unintentional but did not (and obviously could not with the extent of the copying that was done) say that it had not happened at all. DreamGuy (talk) 16:29, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Plagiarism is a serious charge and as our article says, the boundaries are not clear-cut. Whether unintentional copying constitutes plagiarism is debatable. Many dictionaries define it as theft or stealing, which implies some intention.  Our WP:BLP policy requires great care in making accusations about persons not convicted in a court of law. Our readers can make up their own minds about what happened.--agr (talk) 17:42, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: They can, provided the wording in the article is not biased. Saying "alleged plagiarism" when plagiarism is not under any dispute, only whether it was intentional or not, is taking a POV even more severe than the author in question and gives WP:UNDUE weight to the idea of innocence. If you insist upon some sort of disclaimer, you'll need different wording than something that is more severe than any side in the debate has even claimed. DreamGuy (talk) 00:04, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism was not merely alleged 

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message: The Plagiarism section contains too many examples of alleged plagiarism cited in the cases, failing WP:NFCC#3a and possibly WP:NFCC#3b and WP:IINFO as well. The issue remains after this issue was previously raised in 2011, hence the RfC. How many examples should be kept, and which should be removed? (See Special:Permalink/875798994#Plagiarism for the quotes). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:57, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
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