Talk:Jessica LeCroy

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[edit] Hoax or copyvio?

I created this article in response to a request from an anonymous user, as the history shows. It was a cut-and-paste of the biography from the website of the U.S. consulate, which I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) is acceptable because material produced by U.S. gov't employees in the course of their official duties is in the public domain. I had obviously hoped that this article would be maintained, wikified, and generally put into Wikipedia style—which has not been done adequately. (In particular, we need a first sentence that establishes who the person is, and of course we need new links now that someone else has her old position.)

I have no great stake in the article, and in retrospect I should perhaps have written a short stub rather than copying in a long biography. However, I think efforts to identify it as a copyvio and a hoax were based on very little research (a google search shows, on the same website, a list of her speeches when she was Consul-General) and failed to assume good faith. -- SCZenz 03:30, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

I falgged it as a copyvio per http://www.niagara.edu/news/printnews.php?id=1287, That page specify copyright. _→AzaToth 04:34, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

And I specified quite clearly that the source was a (now modified) U.S. government website. -- SCZenz 06:41, 8 May 2006 (UTC)