I'd be happy to ask your dean personally if it is the position of his institution that "a little editing" is the appropriate response to and resolution of cases of plagiarism discovered in her/his institution.
Why don't you show us a Dean at any college that would accuse a student of plagiarism for pasting 2 edited sentences about a common knowledge, recent historical event, with 1,000 possible sources besides Wikipedia. Maybe a 9th grade English teacher trying to make a point, or if this were a pattern throughout a paper, but not by itself. No way. And don't forget, this is a hiking forum, not a university.
Please chill out, Dale. Nobody is going after you, we just don't care about copying 2 sentences stating historical fact on a hiking forum.
