Talk:Alaska World War II Army Airfields

incorporated text?
The article includes a template indicating text is "incorporated" from a given PD website. Why not put any directly copied text into quotes, or reword? Which passages, exactly, if any, are copied? I would prefer to remove the template if it is not strictly needed, or if the article could be revised slightly so that it is not needed. doncram (talk) 19:34, 4 August 2008 (UTC)


 * When I first stubbed this article I was going to look at the AFRA website, 11th Air Force area for information about the airfields in Alasak during WWII.   That's why I put the template in there.   I coudln't find much about them at the Air Force site, and I wrote the narritive myself, not including any.  I'll just edit it out of the reference section since I dind't use any.     Can always add it later if appropriate Bwmoll3 (talk) 19:59, 4 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks. By the way, I and some others actively dislike use of PD templates in wikipedia articles, for a number of reasons including that using them tends to lead to under-crediting of PD authors.  There is discussion of potential explicit policy to get away from them, in Wikipedia talk:Plagiarism.  PD templates may eventually make articles ineligible for GA and FA status.  So, perhaps it is best not to introduce them in new articles.  Anyhow, thanks again here. doncram (talk) 20:42, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Coordinate error
The coordinates for Kiska AAF are (mostly) in the wrong hemisphere.

The coordinates are given as: 51° 58′ 19″ N, 177° 31′ 12″ W (correct - longitude 177 East) 51.971944, -177.52            (incorrect - longitude 177 West)

The second set of coordinates should be: 51.971944, 177.52

The difference is about 211 miles, and an extra (-) sign.

Most of the Geohack links appear to be based on the incorrect coordinates.

—Tantivy (talk) 01:50, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅. Deor (talk) 10:23, 29 February 2012 (UTC)