Talk:Walter Wellman

Removed copyrighted text
I had to remove certain sections because they were verbatim copies of a copyrighted book. I replaced some with expand-sect tags because I do not have time to paraphrase them right now. I stopped checking at Airships. -84user (talk) 15:30, 18 July 2008 (UTC) fixed typo-84user (talk) 15:52, 18 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I know the author of this text personally -- might it not be easiest to simply ask him to license the text under the GFDL? Clevelander96 (talk) 16:48, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Update: (over two years later) I have just noticed there was more copyright violations in Walter Wellman that I missed the last time I checked in 2008. There was extensive copy paste from a 1999 book added here. Here I removed some parts, and rewrote others with inline citations. There remains several sentences that are uncited; they each need citation, they may be copyright violations or plagiarisms. If the original author (Capelotti) were to license the text under the GFDL, I suppose we could accept the text, but the added texts would need attributing in any case. Maybe a few quotes could be used if they summarised an opinion in a nice way? Meanwhile I have listed this article at Copyright problems in case there are problems I have missed. -84user (talk) 23:47, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Searching Google Books confirms that the bulk of content contributed by this user was copied from 2005's Encyclopedia of the Arctic, Volume 3 by Mark Nuttel. Some of this content had already been removed, but whole sentences remained unchanged. Cf., , , . --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:01, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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