User talk:Doncram

This is the Talk page of editor doncram. I don't log in here often; it is probably best to contact me at my Talk page in the English wikipedia, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Doncram. --Doncram (talk) 18:09, 30 May 2013 (UTC) Reply

Hi, i answered your question in Easier table's description Discussion page. Dorivaldo de C. M. dos Santos (talk) 23:19, 15 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

[1] Me: "Ideally, 1 sentence should be the summation of 10 or more sentences in a critical work. Anything less starts to cross the line of what is fair use and what is not. "

You: " didn't you mean "anything more [than 10 percent] starts to cross the line"? "

When I said "anything less," it should be "less than 10 sentences." A summary of 1 sentence with 1 sentence is more likely to fall under plagiarism than a 1 sentence summary of 100 sentences. Now, it is not a hard and fast rule when it comes to larger summaries - a 500 word summary of 3000 words (2 pages summary of 12 pages) would have enough words that it could be unique. It is hard to uniquely summarize anything when there is little original work to base a sentence from. The unique part is difficult and the summary becomes near impossible the fewer words that exist. Ottava Rima (talk) 13:41, 30 April 2016 (UTC) Reply