Talk:Royal Military College of Canada
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[edit] Copyright Information
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This is not compatible with the GFDL which allows anyone to alter the text of a Wikipedia article. Further, the GFDL under which Wikipedia is licensed, does not forbid commercial use, e.g. burning Wikipedia onto DVD-ROM and selling it. The license of the DND forbids this:
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Therefore, this article has to be rewritten from scratch or be deleted. Same for the flag. -- JeLuF 21:21, 29 Jul 2003 (UTC)
The above seems to be referring to an earlier version of this page. I'm guessing it reappeared when the page was recreated. -- Cjrother 15:12, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)
[edit] copyright of images
The new images on the page are copyrighted. Is that acceptable on wikipedia? I thought only public domain images were ok. Cjrother 19:26, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Copyrighted images are OK, as long as the holder of the copyright has granted the public a licence to use them under terms compatible with the GFDL. This is the situation with many images that have been created specifically for Wikipedia: they are copyrighted, but licensed under the GFDL. The other situation where copyrighted images are OK is under fair use. I have no idea what the situation is for the images in this article.--Indefatigable 03:41, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Pierre Berton
Pierre Berton was listed as a notable professor, but I haven't found any evidence that he actually was an RMC professor. He taught courses at RMC during the Second World War, but this was at a time when RMC was used as a training centre. It had ceased operating as a military college in 1942 and did not resume that function until 1948. Eron 03:01, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
I removed the reference to Pierre Berton as a notable professor. VictoriaEdwards 13:42, 17 October 2006 (UTC) My sources had included www.cbc.ca/news/obit/berton_pierre/, www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?0385659385, www.craigmarlatt.com/canada/history&people/berton.html, and www.bookclubs.ca/catalog/display.pperl?0385658427.
[edit] Lists
- A fair number of the lists that dominate this article seem to be fairly irrelevant. While certainly notable professors and alumni should be included, I'm not sure what the need is to include lists of the Governors General, Honorary members, and so forth, it doesn't add much (if anything) to the article itself, and I think the article would be much more improved if we were to focus on information about the school itself. -- Chabuk [ T • C ] 17:40, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] CopyEdit and References
- I just did a fairly thorough copyedit of the article, minor grammar things, removed a couple useless charts. I also tried to standardize the references though there are a fair number missing. I tried to find references for the chart info and some of the other claims (including the ontario law) but couldn't find most of them. I'll look again later, if anyone else wants to help find references, please do! -- Chabuk [ T • C ] 19:37, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] First Year Orientation Period
I added a section on the First Year Orientation Period experienced by all cadets. Feel free to edit the section. I hope not too much information will be removed due to irrelevance. I am sure that all information is accurate as I experienced it first hand. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by OCdt24550 (talk • contribs) 07:26, 18 March 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Trivia
As far as the weathervane and the torpedo trivia, is it provable that the torpedo points in a random direction, and the weathervane does not point to the all-girl dormitory? 64.228.222.85 00:20, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
