Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American Volunteer Forces in The War With Spain


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was Delete. DES (talk) 21:09, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

American Volunteer Forces in The War With Spain
This is a word for word copy of source material obtained from the U.S. Army Center for Military History. The author of this article freely admits this in the opening paragraph and then declares that the article itself is "copyrighted". A clear case of "What Wikipedia is Not" in that the article is a collection of source material.-Husnock 06:20, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * FOLLOWUP: According to the user who created the article, this has been moved to Wikisource. The user attempted to remove the VFD notice and blank the article, but I restored the page for the purpose of finishing the VFD and having an admin properly remove the article. -Husnock 17:17, 12 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete. Looking at the notice on the bottom, I'm not sure if it's copyrighted. However, a text dump of source material like this is inappropriate. This issue is a chronic problem for this user and he has not followed the advice of other editors regarding copyright and text dumping, even after repeated warnings. -- Kjkolb 07:38, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - inappropriate as per Kjkolb. (Vote by CLW)
 * Keep and re-work the text. The topic itself is appropriate, and it is not a clear copyright violation. Trollderella 15:48, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Clearly not copy-vio (US Gov't work, and circa 1898), but primary source material. Wikipedia is not a document repository.  Maybe Transwiki-able, though. Xoloz 16:01, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Xoloz. MCB 22:39, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and transwiki if possible. Youngamerican 17:05, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete As stated in the followup, it's already on wikisource. -Haon 14:31, 16 October 2005 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.