User talk:Flyingkiwi

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Hello. It looks like you have added some valuable information to a Wikipedia article on George P. Abbott. However, in the course of making these changes you also wiped out a lot of text, and an explanation was inserted that the removals were of text “coped [sic] from Browning”.

If the word was “copied”, then with respect to Wikipedia the word is used in a context that is factually incorrect. I know where the text came from and it was not plagiarized from anyone. It was a complete rewrite from cited sources led by Elspeth Huxley. Perhaps Huxley was the copyist? I hope this can be worked out, as I do not like plagiarists any more than you do.

Yours, Bigturtle (talk) 02:40, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Bigturtle: Apologies for implying you copied it from someone. What I was meaning was that it was copied from the entry of Frank_V._Browning, which now that I look at it, it was just the first line "As a messdeck seaman, Browning helped sail the Terra Nova from Cardiff to McMurdo Sound in Antarctic waters". I had assumed that you had copied the wrong text into the Abbott entry. Looking at the rest of the text I'm sure that there is extra information in there and when I have time I'll look to merge the two together.

Regards, Flyingkiwi (talk) 11:21, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your response, I look forward to seeing your work! Bigturtle (talk) 15:31, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 20:02, 5 April 2021 (UTC)