Talk:Cold War Victory Medal

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[edit] Protection

I have semi-protected this article due to anon ip users cutting and pasting large amounts of text in from other websites, namly a website called Foxfall Medals. In addition, the mateiral is highly POV, making statements that the creator of the medal is "reknowned" and that the medal "shows respect and dedication" to name but a few. The anon ip user was contacted regarding these edits, but did not answer and promptly reverted to the previous version. This protection should be removed only after a talk page discussion has resolved the issue. -Husnock 04:49, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

What Mr. Husnock must realize is that he personally copy and pasted text directly from the Fox Fall Medal website. The picture of the medal and the direct wording came from that site. That is not really a problem though as the owner of Fox Fall owns the rights to the medal. Links have been provided proving it. The owner himself typed in additional information about the medal. For reasons unknown Mr. Husnock deleted the owners own typing. When the owner of the medal and the web page types in information it is not a copyright violation. Despite belief to the contrary the medal is not in public domain. It wasn't created from thin air. It was in fact privately created. Mr. Husnock can easily contact the owner of the medal and he will be enlightened. —This unsigned comment was added by 209.216.179.19 (talk • contribs) .

I compared the current version of the article to the Foxfall website and it actually does not contain any similar wording or exact pasting from the site. the "extra information" was a second article tacked on the end of this one which was a direct cut and paste. As far as the picture goes, I believe it comes from the Institute of Heraldry. Finially, the article was not protected due to content dispute but to prevent open cutting and pasting from another website which is a clear copyvio problem and is alaso bad form as Wikipedia is not a mirror to other sites (see Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not). In addition, it seemed that one user was using several anon ip address to reinsert the disputed edits over and over again, thus coming very close to violating the Wikipedia:Three revert rule. -Husnock 05:25, 22 March 2006 (UTC)