Talk:Erwin Lutzer

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[edit] There is NO Copyright Violation

I restored the article. It's incredibly obvious, if you take the time to look, that the article was originally on Wikipedia and then scraped to | http://quotes-of-wisdom.eu/en/author/erwin-w-lutzer/biography. They even copied the familiar Wikipedia format of "early life" and "career" as headings.

Also, you can see that the article in its finished form was the result of many Wikipedia edits culminating in the final version, not simply copied and pasted from the above website.

Last, the Wikipedia article was completely footnoted and the scraped one was not. I hope that newbies will do some research next time before making such flagrant, unverifiable claims.

I have emailed the site in question and asked them to take down the content they scraped from Wikipedia. I cannot guarantee that they will do so, but let this discussion page stand in case anyone else comes through here doubting the original source. Westmorelad (talk) 02:35, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

I find it ironic that you completely removed (arguably against policy) my comment from over a week ago stating basically what you said—I indeed made an egregious error in marking the article as a copyright violation, due to being in a hurry at the time; I quickly discovered it and explained on this talk page that I had categorized the page as a copyright violation erroneously and why it was in actuality not a copyvio.  I also explained the error on the copyright problems page, hoping that doing so would lead to speedy removal of the copyright violation notice. I did not remove the copyright violation notice because I suspected it would go against policy for me, as a non-admin, to remove the notice once it had been posted, and I didn't want to commit another error in trying to fix the first one.  I apologize for the confusion but am disappointed in your angry reaction to an honest mistake.  CarLuva (talk) 03:23, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I was shocked the first time I posted a picture to Wikipedia and didn't know the right copyright option to choose. Within minutes a mod had come by my talk page and lambasted me for the mistake. It's sort of how things work around here, right or wrong. The one good thing is, it makes you super, super careful about any changes you make in the future. Westmorelad (talk) 05:39, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Early Life

I have a question about what I believe to be a minor error in this section.  Specifically, I'm curious what the source was on his degree from Dallas Theological Seminary.  His education is not mentioned on the Moody Church site referenced at the end of the paragraph, and according to his bio on CBD's site (admittedly not an authoritative source, which is why I wanted to check if you had a better source for the M.A.), Dr. Lutzer's degree from that institution is a Th.M., not an M.A.  Basically a technicality, but we should make sure it is accurate.  CarLuva (talk) 23:17, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

I think they are just different ways of saying the same thing: a Th.M. is a Master's (MA) in Theology. Feel free to change it and footnote the Christian book site, if you really want to. Westmorelad (talk) 05:41, 1 March 2008 (UTC)