Talk:Badush prison massacre

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The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future: Factual and legal assessment of acts committed by ISIL (Da’esh) in Iraq during the attack on Badush Central Prison on 10 June 2014 (PDF) (Report). UNITAD. 2024. Retrieved 15 December 2024. Hawley, Emily (2018). "ISIS Crimes Against the Shia: The Islamic State's Genocide Against Shia Muslims". Genocide Studies International. 11 (2). University of Toronto Press: 160–181. ISSN 2291-1847. Retrieved 15 December 2024. "Iraq opens mass grave to identify victims of IS group's Badush prison massacre". France24. 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2024. Report on the Protection of Civilians in the Non International Armed Conflict in Iraq, 5 June – 5 July 2014 (PDF) (Report). 2024. p. 10. Retrieved 15 December 2024.

Article bounty

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WikiProject Human rights is posting its first article bounty! Using article bounties, we aim to improve vital articles about human rights. Currently, there are 2 top-importance and 49 high-importance human rights articles that are rated as stubs. Among them is the article Badush prison massacre, which is the subject of this bounty. Editors who improve this article may be eligible for various rewards, or "bounties".

Bounties will be awarded for improving the article in the following ways:

For expanding the article to 500 words: The Minor Barnstar

For expanding the article to 1000 words: The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar

For promoting the article to GA: The Human Rights Barnstar

Criteria

• Once the article is at 500 words, if you have contributed at least 1,250 characters on the revision history statistics page, you can reply to this post to receive The Minor Barnstar.
• Once the article is at 1,000 words, if you have contributed at least 3,000 characters on the revision history statistics page, you can reply to this post to receive The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar.
• Once the article is promoted to GA, if you are the nominator, you can reply to this post with a link to the successful GA review to receive The Human Rights Barnstar.
• Contributions must be of sufficient quality. This is subjective, and the bounty coordinator reserves the right to withhold bounties from editors whose contributions are of insufficient quality.

If you have any questions about the bounty or help with the GA process, feel free to message the bounty coordinator, Spookyaki, or reply to this post. If you are unsure where to start, check out the refideas on the article's Talk page.

Spookyaki (talk)

Spookyaki (talk) 16:11, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I have done about as much as I think I can handle. KingLeonid1 (talk) 20:50, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Great job! Since the article is at 1,068 words, and since you have contributed 7,146 characters, you have been awarded The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar. However, the bounty is still open for anyone who wants to improve the article to GA. In addition, anyone willing to clean up the sources to increase text–source integrity will receive an additional Cleanup Barnstar. In most cases, sources should be cited by the end of the sentence or paragraph. Thank you! Spookyaki (talk) 21:17, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, sorry. Ran a copyvio check, which caught a lot of plagiarized text from the UNITAD report. Thank you for your work, but please see Wikipedia:Plagiarism and ensure that you correctly follow Wikipedia's guidelines in the future. Spookyaki (talk) 21:32, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Does this not take into account citations? I added them as often as possible so it was clear :( KingLeonid1 (talk) 21:36, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

So the issue was that there were large portions of article that were copy-pasted directly from the text. In general, it's better to paraphrase using your own words. If you do use words copied directly from the text, you must include quotation marks and ideally some kind of in-text attribution (see Avoiding plagiarism). You should also keep directly quoted text to a minimum. It seems like it was an honest mistake, so I hope this doesn't discourage you too much, and if you'd like to take another crack at it, the bounty is still open to you. Just something to keep in mind. Plagiarism is pretty serious, and plagiarized text generally must be removed as quickly as possible from articles. I'm also sorry, because I should have run the copyvio check before awarding the barnstar.

In the future, you can use a copyvio check as a baseline measure to determine whether text is plagiarized. I would also generally cite text no later than the end of a sentence/paragraph to make it as clear as possible where information is coming from (see Text–source integrity). Spookyaki (talk) 21:47, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thank you! KingLeonid1 (talk) 21:53, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]