Talk:Cornell Central Campus/Archive 1

The intended scope of this article is unclear. For example, many people refer to the Ag Quad and Vet School as the upper campus. Will that be covered by a different page? Racepacket 02:57, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Copyright problem

This article has been tagged as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. Text entered in [1] duplicated at least in part material from [2]. Consider the following example:

The quadrangle plan was rooted in traditional models, while the heavy and solid appearance of the simple Italian Renaissance style early stone buildings--Morrill (1866) and White (1867) Halls, both by Buffalo architects Wilcox and Porter and McGraw (1869) and West Sibley (1870) Halls, both by Syracuse architect Archimedes Russell--reflect Ezra Cornell's unschooled and fiscally practical taste. Together, Morrill, McGraw and White Halls comprise the earliest symbol of the fledgling university, "Stone Row", so named for their native gray silt stone building material.

The source says:

The quadrangle plan was rooted in traditional models, while the heavy and solid appearance of the simple Italian Renaissance style early stone buildings--Morrill (1866) and White (1867) Halls, both by Buffalo architects Wilcox and Porter and McGraw (1869) and West Sibley (1870) Halls, both by Syracuse architect Archimedes Russell--reflect Ezra Cornell's unschooled and fiscally practical taste. Together, Morrill, McGraw and White Halls comprise the earliest symbol of the fledgling university, "Stone Row", so named for their native gray silt stone building material.

This article will need to be restored to its earlier version, [3], or rewritten to remove this and other content added by this contributor in accordance with Wikipedia:Copyright violations unless it can be verified to be free of copyright concerns. Content added by other contributors subsequent to the introduction of this material can be reused with proper attribution if it does not merge with this text to create an unauthorized derivative work. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:57, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

It appears that this text was taken from a government website -- I don't remember, but would this make a difference, or does this non-copywriteability only apply to federally produced material?--Xtreambar (talk) 19:27, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Hi. Unfortunately, while the US federal government is public domain, very few state or city governments are. Since copyright is automatically conferred in the US, we would need to verify that Ithaca has explicitly disclaimed copyright to use their text. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:32, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

• I have posted a revised page at Talk:Cornell Central Campus/Temp which I believe will resolve any problems. Racepacket (talk) 11:30, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

• I'm sorry, but the rewrite proposed also contained text duplicated from that site. I have left more information at your talk page. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:33, 11 February 2010 (UTC)