Talk:Sherman Coolidge

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I copyedited this a few hours ago, with similar qualms to edits I have made of articles about African Americans of the era. Frankly, I don't know the politically correct terminology, which I think was "Indian" in his era, but "Native American" or "Indigeneous People" today. Still, I hope my trims of redundant or passive constructions improved the article. Using a clergy infobox might also help, but no examples came immediately to mind and that would require removing the extensive caption on one photograph which the original editor added, and which are part of the article's charm.Jweaver28 (talk) 08:23, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There are chunks of text quoted directly from their sources with no direct quote marks (and if one just plunked them in, then without integration). For example this text:

the Society anticipated by decades important Indian reforms: a major reorganization of the Indian school system in the late 1920s, the codification of Indian law in the 1930s, and the opening of the U.S. Court of Claims to Indians in the 1940s.

is word for word from its source.

It's cited, but it's still plagiarism. I'm planning to have a closer look after fixing similar problems on Laura Cornelius Kellogg but wanted to give a heads up on this page. Sharp-shinned.hawk (talk) 22:45, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]