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Contents 1 Prologue Magazine 2 open to public? 3 UK National Archives 4 Additional citations needed 5 National Treasure 6 WikiProject class rating 7 Fact check!

[edit] Prologue Magazine

Over on Talk:Panay incident, we had a little confusion over whether the contents of the NARA publication Prologue Magazine are in the public domain. I asked, they responded:

Features written by NARA staff are in the public domain. Prologue does not hold any copyright, but individual authors may choose to copyright. Trevor Plante is a NARA archivist, and therefore his article is in the public domain. Copyrighted articles are indicated by the (c) symbol after the author's name.

Even though there is no copyright, we are interested to know where Prologue features are reprinted and ask that, as a courtesy, Prologue is given as the source.

Thank you for inquiring.

Mary C. Ryan

Policy & Communications Staff - NPOL

The contents in question were by a specific author. However, the response applies to all contents of the magazine. Hopefully this won't come up again.

-- Cyrius 20:14, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] open to public?

does any one know if the National Archives is open to public? (not the exhibit) Today i went in (the front door facing north) and the security at the door bared me, saying somethig about i need to be a researcher. Xah Lee 02:33, 2004 Oct 17 (UTC)

yes, it's open to the public. certain areas are restricted to researchers, but the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, etc. are all in public exhibits. I went today, actually.

[edit] UK National Archives

I removed the "See Also" section, since it contained nothing but a link to the National Archives of the United Kingdom, which has no direct affiliation with NARA. The British counterpart for the United States National Archives is irrelevant.

[edit] Additional citations needed

Fellow contributors, I removed the "citations missing" tag and replaced it with the "refimprove" tag, as noted in my edit summary. At the time of my edit, there are three inline citations, but this article could benefit from a few more sources. I placed the tag above the ==References== section. The template suggests placing this tag at either the top or the bottom of an article, so I apologize if I have over-extended my interpretation of the template guidelines. I felt that three citations was at least strong enough to remove the banner from the top of the page. Ukulele 04:22, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] National Treasure

Should there be a notice somewhere saying that the building was a key landmark in the film National Treasure? Just wondering...

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 15:57, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fact check!

The article currently states:

It holds the original copies of the three main formative documents of the United States and its government: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.

Since nobody knows what King George did with the original of the Declaration of Independence, it seems somewhat unlikely that it's located in the National Archives... Tomer^talk 04:38, 9 May 2008 (UTC)