Talk:John Emilius Fauquier

Squadron No. 617
The sources cited in the 617 squadron article seem to contradict the claims in the sources for this article. The sources in the Fauquier article state multiple times and pretty unambiguously that he commanded 617 from Dec. 1944 to wars end.

The sources in the 617 article say that Commander JB "Willy" Tait was the CO from july 1944 on. The 617 website and the RAF have no mention of him. HOWEVER, the pdf of the logs from 617 clearly show him accepting command and leading raids.....interesting. Protonk (talk) 05:39, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Copyright concerns
The contributor who initially created this article used text directly from Oswald, Mary, They Led the Way, Wetaskiwin: Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame, 1999. Although he may be affiliated with the CAHF, the question of whether or not the author of the text surrendered her copyright to the publisher persists, and there has been no verification of his connection to the organization. (We would need such to be verified either at the website or through communication with the Wikimedia Foundation). See User talk:Cahf and Copyright problems/2009 April 10 for background. Accordingly, the article has been blanked for further investigation. I personally do not have access to this source, which makes it difficult to determine the degree to which that text may have been used. If any contributors to this article do have access, assistance would be much appreciated. Alternatively, we may need to revise those passages placed by the creator. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:33, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Well...considering that one remedy for copyvios is to revert to a known good version, we may have obviated the problem. This is a pretty fundamental rewrite.  If it is a serious enough problem to go back into the history to delete past revisions, I'll do that, but I would prefer not to.  I'll also note that I unfortunately can't verify the text, as I never got a copy of that particular source through inter-library loan. Protonk (talk) 17:59, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * There's only a few problematic passages in that one that would need to be revised. Since this has been your project, would you like to do the honors? --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:30, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Updating to note that it may not be necessary to revise them. A contributor at WikiProject Aviation has the book and may be able to verify if there are problems with those sentences. I don't believe that it's essential to delete past revisions as long as we do the usual caution against reinstatement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:54, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm happy to remove or completely rewrite passages as need be. If someone has the book, it might be even better for them to rewrite them so they may summarize them from that source (otherwise I would be on the edge of superficially rewriting comment). Protonk (talk) 19:34, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Good news. :) The Possessor of the Book indicates that there is no infringement in the passages that remain. Template removed. This one resolved. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:33, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

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