kq wrote:
Yes, that's all well and good, but sometimes apparent copyright violations are actually not violations at all. That happened today with a Czech Republic article--someone at another site had claimed copyright on writeups from the U.S. State Department, which are in the public domain. The text was removed, listed for deletion, and restored. I thought you noticed when that happened. :-)
And that is exactly why we should always give credit where credit is due by placing a ==References== section in articles that have a good amount of public domain text in it.
Just because we legally aren't required to credit public domain text doesn't mean we shouldn't do the academically correct thing and not take credit for text we did not write. A great side benefit is that others will not suspect a copyright violation after reading the ==References== section.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)