Talk:Albany Research Center

Copy and paste
While it is nice to add to the article, we generally do not copy & paste directly from other places. First, most of the time it would be a copyright problem. Secondly, it introduces problems, such as occurred here.

As to the copyright issue, since the agency is a federal government entity, there is a good chance the material is in the public domain, but we would need to confirm that. The ARC does apparently use contractors, and it is possible this was written by a contractor. But, odds are it is PD.

The second issue is actually the main problem. When you copy and paste, it often creates problems with out neutral point of view, which it certainly does. Not to mention we would never write "We are now known as NETL-Albany". We don't use we, as this is not the NETL-Albany's website (ditto with "our"). We would write: The laboratory became NETL-Albany in 2XXX. Here, we also avoid the "now" as we try not to leave statements that can age quickly. Additionally, all that information concerning the name already existed in the article (in the preceding paragraph), so I fail to see a need to repeat it.

Back to the NPOV issue; we would avoid terms such as "unique" and "leader", especially when coming from the entity we are writing about. Analysis about the lab needs to come from third party sources. Which is what I did last year when I re-wrote most of the article, using most if not all of the usable information from that same NETL source, which appears as footnote #1. If you need more information or more of an explanation, please let me know. Aboutmovies (talk) 06:11, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

No this should be plenty for now, still got alot to learn about how things all work but I will see what I can do to pull up additional sourses for information on it and get it from a third party to get the information in a NPOV formate.MathewDill (talk) 09:08, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

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