Talk:Military history of Laos

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Copyright problems[edit]

I have added the {{copypaste}} template to this article. It only sites one source, and large sections of the article appear to be copied directly from the source. there are numerous "(see glossary)" or "(see chapter 1)" comments within the text instead of proper wikilinks. I have changed these all over to wikilink as part of project:wikify. The reason I have not marked this for speedy deletion as a copyright violation is that the author labels his source as public domain, and indeed it does appear to be public domain thru the library of congress. I freely admit I am a bit naive about the deeper complexities of copyright on wikipedia, which this appears to be a case of. can someone who understands the copyright rules a little better than me take a look at the referenced site and determine if something beyond wikifiying needs to occur here? Will (talk) 16:08, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have also found copypasted material (see section '1828 to 1900') at [1], dated 'from 1994', which predates WP's existence. I am making the same assumption—that it is public domain text. Therefore I am continuing to copyedit the article. --Greenmaven (talk) 12:34, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]