Talk:History of Puerto Rico
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History of PR
Not my intention to copy/paste plagiaries anybody's work here, I contacted the author of the page mentioned- waiting for a response. I am researching the subject to see if I can contribute a better article here. If deemed so, feel free to undo any changes.
Copyright violation?
I'm a little concerned that much of the recent changes to this article include verbatim copying of material from this site (http://welcome.topuertorico.org/history.shtml). I've no problem with using that site as a guide, but mimicking the structure and copying exact phrasing is at best plagiarism and at worst a copyright violation. Because it is difficult for me to determine just how extensive the copying is, I'm mentioning it here first, to give some other eyes a chance to look it over before listing it on Wikipedia:Copyright problems.
Also, User:Jmoliver marked the edits as "minor" changes when it is in fact a complete re-write of the article. Please don't mark such major changes as minor. I had left messages on the user talk page, but with no response. older≠wiser 13:18, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Additional Copyright Violations? When wikifying the Invasion of 1898 section I did some googling to check some facts and found that some of the chronology had been lifted directly from this page: http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/chronpr.html. For example, this passage from the Politcal Reforms section was lifted directly from that page:
Dr. Julio J. Henna and Robert H. Todd, prominent leaders of the Puerto Rican section of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, began to correspond with United States President McKinley and Senate in hopes that they would consider including Puerto Rico in whatever intervention was planned for Cuba. Henna and Todd also provided the U.S. government with information about the Spanish military presence on the island.
I didn't closely compare the two pages to find more examples, but it's clear that this is a second area of possible plagiarism in addition to the above. I've added a citation but I don't think that's enough. Both these cases need to be addressed more thoroughly. mennonot 23:37, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
References need to be cited
The problem with this article (amongst so many others, crippling Wikipedia)is nobody cites their sources. All the information on this page is speculative without them.