Talk:Alaska World War II Army Airfields
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incorporated text?
The article includes a template indicating text is "incorporated" from a given PD website. Why not put any directly copied text into quotes, or reword? Which passages, exactly, if any, are copied? I would prefer to remove the template if it is not strictly needed, or if the article could be revised slightly so that it is not needed. doncram (talk) 19:34, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
- When I first stubbed this article I was going to look at the AFRA website, 11th Air Force area for information about the airfields in Alasak during WWII. That's why I put the template in there. I coudln't find much about them at the Air Force site, and I wrote the narritive myself, not including any. I'll just edit it out of the reference section since I dind't use any. Can always add it later if appropriate Bwmoll3 (talk) 19:59, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks. By the way, I and some others actively dislike use of PD templates in wikipedia articles, for a number of reasons including that using them tends to lead to under-crediting of PD authors. There is discussion of potential explicit policy to get away from them, in Wikipedia talk:Plagiarism. PD templates may eventually make articles ineligible for GA and FA status. So, perhaps it is best not to introduce them in new articles. Anyhow, thanks again here. doncram (talk) 20:42, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Coordinate error
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The coordinates for Kiska AAF are (mostly) in the wrong hemisphere.
The coordinates are given as: 51° 58′ 19″ N, 177° 31′ 12″ W (correct - longitude 177 East) 51.971944, -177.52 (incorrect - longitude 177 West)
The second set of coordinates should be: 51.971944, 177.52
The difference is about 211 miles, and an extra (-) sign.
Most of the Geohack links appear to be based on the incorrect coordinates.
—Tantivy (talk) 01:50, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Done. Deor (talk) 10:23, 29 February 2012 (UTC)