User talk:68.161.238.220: Difference between revisions

I assume the text you have been copying from the Library of Congress is in the public domain (not all of it is). If this is the case then please indicate the source of the text in the article itself (see below). Not doing so is plagiarism (of course if it isn't in the public domain then it is also a copyright infringement). --mav

Reference

• Initial text adapted from The Library of Congress Country Studies

Plagiarism is academic :) Copyright infringment now that is another matter

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Your input in the Laos and Thailand related articles is very welcome as there are not many from that area active here yet. However when you start new topics like Thonburi it would be better to make it longer then just one sentence if possible. Otherwise others have to do the de-stubbing work, like I did already for those Thailand related ones I can provide input. andy 08:40 Apr 2, 2003 (UTC)

At the very least please write in complete sentences. --mav

And put the title in the first sentence in '''bold'''. -- John Owens

No problem

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Please stop to create article but copying text from websites - that's not what I meant by trying to avoid stubs. This is a copyright infringement, and you are doing the project absolutely no good by that, and create additional work to other to find them and clean it up. andy 22:32 Apr 15, 2003 (UTC)

Give me an example of what you are talking about. The beauty of wiki is that it changes. Text is not static. You can start out as a stub or as something lifted from the LOC, but it quickly changes into something of its own. With things that can't be changed you can legitimately be concerned about copyright violation but text that constantly evolves cannot be protected and cannot violate protection. It's a living document in a literal sense of the term. The entry a year, a month, a week, even a day or an hour from now can be different. Why fret over something that has a life of its own?

Examples:

• AC-47 and Gunship was copied 100% from http://www.aircareintl.org/history/army_puff.htm and http://www.ac-119gunships.com/gunshipac47.htm
• Lao cuisine was copied from http://www.galanga.com/bookReview/dxayavong.html except the introducing paragraph
• Phoumi Nosavan is based heavily on http://www.drugtext.org/library/books/McCoy/book/53.htm - without any reference given (the one now on the article was added by me)
• If 167.226.81.5 is your other IP, then there were two already deleted copies from the Lao embassy

Please read Wikipedia:Copyrights - everything is said there. If you find a great text in the web you want to have on Wikipedia, you have to rewrite it in your own words, never just copy it - unless you have explicit permission by the author. It's more work for sure, but everything else is not accepted here. Of course a copyrighted text will evolve here, but if it's a nearly perfect text already it won't change enough to loose its roots. andy 07:38 Apr 17, 2003 (UTC)

WHERE IS THE COPYRIGHT VIOLATION??? WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THE AUTHOR DID NOT GIVE PERMISSION?? WHY ARE YOU MAKING ASSUMPTIONS??