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== Hemingway quote ==

Since there seem to be a few misconceptions about ] here, I'd better get this started before {{u|Lord Such&Such}} edit-wars themselves into trouble.

The editor wishes to include a lengthy blockquote from Hemingway in the article, which makes it look like . That's an unacceptable take-over of a short article by a peripherally relevant, large quote. At the risk of inciting further high dudgeon by slandering Nobel laureates, literary quotes in species articles are '''frills''' - stuff that can be added after the basics are covered and a well-developed article exists that covers taxonomy, ecology, and human use. Having the article look like a Hemingway excerpt with the relevant material forming a light fringe around it is not an acceptable state. Comments by other editors would be welcome. --<span style="font-family:Courier">]</span> <small>(] · ])</small> 00:10, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

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I took this out since it doesn't really reference the subject of the article.

'381 world records have fallen to Fin-Nor reels, including Glassell's 1560-pound black marlin caught in 1953 while filming The Old Man and the Sea (the record still stands).'

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For more information on this situation, which involved a single contributor liberally copying material from print and internet sources into several thousand articles, please see the two administrators' noticeboard discussions of the matter, here and here, as well as the the cleanup task force subpage. Thank you. --Geronimo20 (talk) 02:45, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Hemingway quote

Since there seem to be a few misconceptions about WP:BRD here, I'd better get this started before Lord Such&Such edit-wars themselves into trouble.

The editor wishes to include a lengthy blockquote from Hemingway in the article, which makes it look like this. That's an unacceptable take-over of a short article by a peripherally relevant, large quote. At the risk of inciting further high dudgeon by slandering Nobel laureates, literary quotes in species articles are frills - stuff that can be added after the basics are covered and a well-developed article exists that covers taxonomy, ecology, and human use. Having the article look like a Hemingway excerpt with the relevant material forming a light fringe around it is not an acceptable state. Comments by other editors would be welcome. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 00:10, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

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