Talk:Thomas Leighton Williams

OCR text?

The types of error in this text makes it seem very likely that it's been scanned in and OCR'ed from a pape source. That's a copyright violation, but can't be verified in the usual way by using Google.

I'm putting a prod tag on this as unsourced; if someone knows where it came from, please replace it with a summary and an external reference. --Alvestrand 05:28, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

I see no evidence that this is a copyright violation, nor of a proliferation of OCR-type errors. Googling finds no hits apart from Wikipedia. It could be from a source released to the public domain. Espresso Addict 00:50, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

A few of the errors (tilde substituted for characters, "of" being recognized as "c", last character being dropped from words) were repaired by User:Bathcover. But - almost nobody writes this kind of prose at one sitting; that's the main reason to suspect that it came from some copied source. And even if the source is in the public domain, Wikipedia policy requires that we attribute it properly.

BTW, good reference. Now we can cut back the article to what's verifiable from the reference, since we have no way of verifying the rest.. --Alvestrand 14:08, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Copyvio

This is a straight copy of the article "Williams, Thomas Cuthbert Leighton" in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:37, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. I've created a clean stub. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 10:19, 23 October 2012 (UTC)