Talk:Alfred Lawson

YouTube links
This article is one of thousands on Wikipedia that have a link to YouTube in it. Based on the External links policy, most of these should probably be removed. I'm putting this message here, on this talk page, to request the regular editors take a look at the link and make sure it doesn't violate policy. In short: 1. 99% of the time YouTube should not be used as a source. 2. We must not link to material that violates someones copyright. If you are not sure if the link on this article should be removed, feel free to ask me on my talk page and I'll review it personally. Thanks. ---J.S (t|c) 04:22, 8 November 2006 (UTC)


 * This appears to have been posted by the film-maker. It's essentially a home movie of a visit to the site. Libertatia 20:04, 8 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Are you sure that it's official? If so, then ok. ---J.S (t|c) 21:20, 8 November 2006 (UTC)


 * The user who posted the film to YouTube is listed as the "museum" that made the film. So, no, I'm not certain, but it looks fine. I'll look a little more, and try to contact the film-maker when I get a minute. Libertatia 23:12, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

University of Lawsonomy sign
Can anyone get a picture of that? That would make a good image for this article. Phiwum 13:29, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
 * So would the principal diagram that appears in many of his books. It may be out of copyright by now.  Also, a Lawson expert should elucidate the mysterious "Cy Q. Faunce".ChoppityChop 07:11, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I doubt that the diagram is in the public domain. The US law has retroactively extended copyright to 70 years after the death of the content producer, as utterly nutty as that seems.  So, unless it fell out of protection accidentally by not being re-registered before the 1970s, the diagram will not be in the public domain for a while.  Phiwum 13:28, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * That's not correct. The "life plus 70" applies only to items copyrighted after 1978. Anything still in first- or second-term copyright at that time got a one-shot extension such that it would expire 75 years after the initial copyright (later extended to 95, but that's another story). No U.S. copyright earlier than 1924 can still be in effect. Copyrights up to 1951 _may_ have expired (you just have to look it up). Eddore (talk) 01:03, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

NPOV
Someone should modify what seem to be needless insults to Lawson and Lawsonomy, and an NPOV violation, like calling his small University "so-called". This system has continuously had a following, mostly in the USA, for over 75 years now, and it should be presented as factually and neutrally as possible. Lawson was quite a significant aviation inventor and business pioneer (and who knows, someday his unusual theories might be vindicated after all).ChoppityChop 07:11, 12 May 2007 (UTC)


 * But it was never accredited... AnonMoos (talk) 10:28, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

From the article: Leading Lawsonomy researcher Mark Carroll is reportedly close to a unified theory of Lawsonomy. Carroll quoted as saying, "combining the trinity of Lawsonomy concepts: penetrability, suction and pressure and zig-zag-and-swirl, into a single concept has the potential to return Lawsonomy to a level of intellectual and scientific acceptance on par with Intelligent Design."

I must admit that I laughed out loud when I read the above passage, but the quote in the article is clearly intended as a joke/insult and has no other value in elucidating Lawson's beliefs. I'm not a believer (my odd -- but loveable -- old neighbor was where I grew up in KC though), but is this really appropriate content for an "objective" Wikipedia article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by RaidEphWolve (talk • contribs) 05:32, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

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