User talk:Hsgard58

Public domain
Saw your post to the MoS talk page. Just because something is part of an official bio page doesn't mean it's in the public domain. In the U.S. a work doesn't enter the public domain until so many years after the death of the author (the author, not the subject), so many years after registration of corporate ownership, or unless the work has been specifically released into the public domain by the copyright owner.

However, if you look on WP:BIOL, you'll probably see that the website you mentioned would certainly be an acceptable source for a Wikipedia article. You would just have to either paraphrase its content or mark any direct quotes as such. Darkfrog24 (talk) 06:21, 10 January 2010 (UTC)