The lede here is essentially two passages copied verbatim from AP, put in a different order. I didn't look beyond that; this problem needs fixing everywhere that it occurs.
Avoid imitating the overall arrangement of ideas in a source, or the paragraph structure, sentence structure, or phrase structure. Avoid imitating distinctive words or peculiar turns of phrase. By the time you've done all those things, there probably won't be much that's at all similar, but a rule of thumb is that you shouldn't have more than three consecutive words identical to a source, with obvious exceptions like titles.
We're okay for only about another day or so on freshness here, because we need something new to have come to light within 2–3 days. The most recently come to light information here is from the ABC News article, on Monday. (The publication date of the article doesn't matter, but we do have new information there, so it counts.)
If possible, please address the above issues then resubmit the article for another review (by replacing {{tasks}} in the article with {{review}}). This talk page will be updated with subsequent reviews.
The lede here is essentially two passages copied verbatim from AP, put in a different order. I didn't look beyond that; this problem needs fixing everywhere that it occurs.
Avoid imitating the overall arrangement of ideas in a source, or the paragraph structure, sentence structure, or phrase structure. Avoid imitating distinctive words or peculiar turns of phrase. By the time you've done all those things, there probably won't be much that's at all similar, but a rule of thumb is that you shouldn't have more than three consecutive words identical to a source, with obvious exceptions like titles.
We're okay for only about another day or so on freshness here, because we need something new to have come to light within 2–3 days. The most recently come to light information here is from the ABC News article, on Monday. (The publication date of the article doesn't matter, but we do have new information there, so it counts.)
If possible, please address the above issues then resubmit the article for another review (by replacing {{tasks}} in the article with {{review}}). This talk page will be updated with subsequent reviews.
This is at the outer edge of what could reasonably be judged fresh (at the reviewer's discretion). The need for a not-ready/revision/resubmit, and reporter-reviewer timing differences (submissions came in the late evening for this reviewer), dragged things out. The story was also less than ideally fresh when first written, on which it didn't help that the mainstream press was slow picking up the story in the first place (the sources came out Sunday and Monday, following the jury's decision on Friday).
I increased distance from source with a number of edits (see the edit history). This is more than a reviewer would do on a regular basis, but a meaningful effort had already been made, and hopefully it's a useful demonstration of some techniques.
Nice first article.
The reviewed revision should automatically have been edited by removing {{Review}} and adding {{Publish}} at the bottom, and the edit sighted; if this did not happen, it may be done manually by a reviewer.
This is at the outer edge of what could reasonably be judged fresh (at the reviewer's discretion). The need for a not-ready/revision/resubmit, and reporter-reviewer timing differences (submissions came in the late evening for this reviewer), dragged things out. The story was also less than ideally fresh when first written, on which it didn't help that the mainstream press was slow picking up the story in the first place (the sources came out Sunday and Monday, following the jury's decision on Friday).
I increased distance from source with a number of edits (see the edit history). This is more than a reviewer would do on a regular basis, but a meaningful effort had already been made, and hopefully it's a useful demonstration of some techniques.
Nice first article.
The reviewed revision should automatically have been edited by removing {{Review}} and adding {{Publish}} at the bottom, and the edit sighted; if this did not happen, it may be done manually by a reviewer.
