User talk:NRLBuilder

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The text on the website is a product of the Builder™ Team's collaboration and Builder™ is posting this to Wikipedia®.NRLBuilder 15:06, 6 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Not quite sure what you mean? Could you give me a link or something?--Commander Keane 15:34, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

It got flagged as a "copyright violation" when i had posted the text at this link *About Us and i don't see how it is copyright when the US government pays for it and we were the ones who wrote it and posted it to Wikipedia®. NRLBuilder 15:42, 6 April 2006 (UTC)


 * OK, you are talking about Interactive Scenario Builder and SIMDIS. If the material is released under a free licence (public domain or GFDL etc) then we could use it - but do we want to? Material copied from a website like that is bound to not be from a Neutral point of view. I think the best solution would be to re-create the Wikipedia articles with some researched, neutral writing - which I'm sure you are capable of.--Commander Keane 15:54, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

The problem with this is that anything new posted about Builder needs to be approved by the Naval Research Lab as releasable. If i write something new, i've got to wait months upon months for approval. How do i indicate that this was released under a free liscense since it is government produced in the article? NRLBuilder 16:11, 6 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Well I'm not asking you to write something new, because anything you do write has to be verifiable (ie published or on the internet etc). I suppose you could use the Naval Research Lab info if you established that it's under a free licence, and then explained the licence on the talk page. For example for US Gov't image there is the explanation used in PD-USGov-Military.--Commander Keane 16:34, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, there isn't anything else on the public domain about Builder. How do i use the template while replacing the  message with the Builder website's url? NRLBuilder 16:50, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

--- Commander Keane isn't around at the moment, but is there something I can help you with? Pepsidrinka 19:41, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Certainly, i'm trying to figure out how to use the USGovernment Template. I don't know how to get the sourceURL to show the URL i want it to. if you look at the bottom of Interactive Scenario Builder you'll see what mean. NRLBuilder 19:54, 6 April 2006 (UTC) Also, is there a way to make my own template? and if so how do i do it? Is the citation i have on the page now sufficient or will the article be flagged as copyright violation again?


 * To my knowledge, it won't be flagged as a copyright violation, but, why don't you write in your own words what it is. And if you can, add more information from other sources. As it stands now, it offers no more information than the source file. Also, I fixed the template. Pepsidrinka 20:07, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * m:Help:Template has a little excess about templates. I, personally, learnt by looking at the code of other templates and built upon on that. Computerjoe 's talk 20:13, 6 April 2006 (UTC)