Talk:Frick's Lock, Pennsylvania
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[edit] What?
Is this a bad novel or an encyclopedia article?
Please read other articles in Wikipedia before writing a new one so that you understand the appropriate conventions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DonDaMon (talk • contribs) 18:57, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
- Concur. I cleaned up "productionz" advertising a bit, but didn't touch the prose. Also wondering about copyvio. The two external sites use pretty much the same prose (although they may have stolen it from Wikipedia). Anybody have a copy of Weird Pennsylvania to compare to? --J Clear (talk) 01:23, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Copyvio?
{{cv-unsure|[[User:J Clear|J Clear]] ([[User talk:J Clear|talk]])|2=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frick%27s_Lock%2C_Pennsylvania&oldid=185330609}}
The (bad?) prose section should be investigated for a possible copyright violation. It may have been copied from the cited reference book, perhaps verbatim. The two external sites use pretty much the same text, which made me suspicious. While they may have "borrowed" it from Wikipedia, someone should see if it is a copy from Weird Pennsyvlania. --J Clear (talk) 01:39, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
- I got Google books to give me one page of Weird Pennsylvania. The article is definitely not a copy of that book. The book is actually somewhat readable. That still leaves that the article is pretty much the same as the web sites. How to tell who copied who? --J Clear (talk) 03:02, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
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- Actually it is identical to parts of BBHproductionz' page. While it may have been that organization that copied it to wikipedia, it was clearly not encyclopedic in style, so I rewrote the article, which eliminated both issues. I defanged the {{cv-unsure}}, but left it above to document. --J Clear (talk) 18:51, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] No Trespassing
There are now no trespassing signs everywhere, including on the individual buildings, and they've boarded them up a lot securer than before. I think trespassing is more than just "discouraged" now, unfortunately ... Just a warning. 207.172.186.128 (talk) 23:47, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
