Talk:Itek

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[edit] Referencing well-done

Nice job with the referencing in this article. I appreciate how the text copied from PD source is set aside in block quotes, as it should be. Not sure whether the general disclaimer "incorporates text from" the one source, generated by use of the "USGovernment" template, is needed or helpful. In my view, that suggests that text written by the editor(s), anything that is outside of quotes, may well have just been copied, too. It appears, instead, that any use of the PD source is completely documented already, so the general disclaimer does not add.

Use of the "USGovernment" template is in fact what called this article to my attention, I have been going through many other articles in the "Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government". This article is better than most of the others, many of which are just careless paste-jobs with the general disclaimer as an apology. I am not sure you want to associate with them. Anyhow, keep up the good work! doncram (talk) 18:31, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

I like it. It is straight forward and clean. Also, such wording helps to educate those who do a direct copy/paste that there are ways to put the information into Wikipedia in a neat format that avoids any semblance of plagiarism. Mattisse 23:58, 18 January 2008 (UTC)