Talk:Stars & Stripes (America's Cup syndicate)

Changes
I made a few changes to the 1988 section. Firstly, I changed the no time part to limited time. I'm not quite sure how long they had to answer the challenge in but they obviously had some time otherwise they couldn't have designed the 2 catamarans. Whether the time they had was insufficient time or just decided to be dickheads is always going to be debated so best to say limited time.

I also changed the part about design being unrestricted. Team NZ's argument in the court case was that there was design requirements/restrictions since a race between a catamaran and a big boat couldn't be called a match and the deed called for a match. The court eventually ruled in favour of SDYC but there is still great debate who was right. In cases like this, it's best to take the most neutral and factual answer. I think all sides agree that there was no explicit design requirements specified in the original deed so if we just stay this, there's no problem Nil Einne 16:00, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Catamaran-hull yachts
Editor WPPilot left this on my talk page. I've copied it here because discussion about articles belongs on article talk pages.


 * I created this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morrelli,_Chance_%26_Hubbart_%26_MacLane&redirect=no and if you look into the history you will see the bios that I wrote and researched in great detail. I posted the story on the wetta tri page on facebook well after I wrote it, some discussion regarding merging this data onto the Stars and Stripes page, and I am just now doing it.


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morrelli,_Chance_%26_Hubbart_%26_MacLane&action=history


 * Please refrain from removing it, if you have something to say please use the talk pages. Thank you.


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Morrelli,_Chance_%26_Hubbart_%26_MacLane  --WPPilot 23:34, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Editor WPPilot's comments refer to a reversion that I made. WPPilot added a fair amount of text to §Catamaran-hull yachts. That text, in my opinion, was/is poorly constructed and something about it just didn't feel right. On a hunch, I googled several passages from WPPilot's addition and found that the new article text significantly matched text found on Facebook. Because the new text appeared to be a copy and paste from Facebook, and therefore apparently plagiarism, I deleted it.

Now, Editor WPPilot asserts that the Facebook posting is his writing. That seems to be true. Still, WPPilot, you need to rewrite it so that it's quality improves. Simply tossing it in as you've done, declaring the job done, and going off to do something else, hasn't significantly improved the article.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 00:33, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Possible copyright problem
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External links modified
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 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20140808063605/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080712/NEWS06/807120343/1008 to http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080712/NEWS06/807120343/1008
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20100807084909/http://33rd.americascup.com:80/en/contexte/que-sont-ils-devenus/1995-young-america-usa-36-25-663 to http://33rd.americascup.com/en/contexte/que-sont-ils-devenus/1995-young-america-usa-36-25-663

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