Talk:Castlebar
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Copyright violation?
Compare the second para with [1] -- Picapica 23:29, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Nope. They have copied it from here. Word for word. Note the edit history shows that the content here has been added gradually. The first paragraph at Castlebar travel guide is particularly telling - it matches the original content here perfectly, yet our content was gradually added (some of it by me).
- And they are not copyvio'ing, they provide attribution and link-back at the end of the page, note the "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Castlebar"." (Castlebar is linked to this article)
Okay. Poor research by me there. Sony-youth's verbless sentences (especially the strange one beginning "A routing" -- just who were the French forces aiding?) read far more like a tourist brochure than an encyclopedia entry, and I didn't look before I leapt (to the wrong conclusion!) -- Picapica 11:21, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Material from Wiki IT
Not sure that "excursion" is the best word - feel free to change. The Italian reads migliaia di camminatori si avventurano in passeggiate di quattro giorni. My Italian 101 translates that thousands of walkers/ramblers/hikers adventure themselves in four day walks/hikes".
[edit] Material from Catlebar
Someone created a new page at Catlebar, which I've redirected here. I'm going to paste the content in here, as there are a couple of things that aren't mentioned, in case someone wants to find sources for them and work them into this article.
Castlebar (Caislean an Bharraigh)
Castlebar is the administrative and cultural centre of County Mayo for local government, hospitals and tertiary education. It's situated about 16 miles from the western coast of the Atlantic Ocean, 20 miles from the famous mountain of Croagh Patrick, only 30 minutes' drive from Knock International Airport and one hour from Galway City.
The castle from which the town got its name, was built in the middle of the 13th century by one of the Barry family from Buttevant, Co. Cork.
Until the collapse of the rising, Castlebar was the capital of the ‘Provisional Republic of Connacht’. A 1798 memorial stands at the entrance to the Mall in honour of the French soldiers who died on Irish soil that year. The pleasant tree-lined Mall, once a cricket pitch of Lord Lucan, is now a town park.
Castlebar, with a population of about 9,500 people (2007), is now a developing, industrial, commercial and services centre. There are a number of walking trails in the vicinity. The town holds an annual festival in June/July. Why not visit Christchurch - this fine Church was completed in 1739 and renovated in the early 1800s. The feature clock tower was added during renovations in 1807. The graveyard contains many interesting headstones and also a fascinating plaque commemorating six members of the Frazer Fencibles who were killed in battle in 1798.
prepared by Gintarius Petkus
