Talk:Group B streptococcal infection

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[edit] New

New article, will add more info today.--FloNight 00:13, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

New info should indeed be added and this article should be rewritten to remove wholesale borrowing as discussed below. It has been a while since this was created so this situation should be fixed. It also might be good to move most of this information to Group B streptococcal infection as suggested previously (below) by Wouterstomp and as suggested on the Streptococcus agalactiae article. Perinatal Group B Streptococcal Disease might be merged to the new article as a subheading perhaps along with the subheading Bovine group B streptococcal disease. CharlusIngus 20:39, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
I would suggest moving this page to Group B streptococcal infection, as group b streptococcus is the same as Streptococcus agalactiae and this page is more about the infection than about the bacteria itself. --WS 10:50, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Copyvio?

  • This article was marked as a copyvio from [1], but it seems that CDC is a part of US federal government, thus the text is in public domain. Conscious 08:34, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
  • It is NOT generally good to just lift whole sections of text from another website and drop them in Wikipedia. Please note that the site http://www.cdc.gov/groupbstrep/general/gen_public_faq.htm is essentially the same text as is written here. This is already noted below. Although not a copyright violation because the government can't copyright anything and, hence, its legal, this makes for a poor article and is still not a good way to create a wikipedia article. From any other source this would be both illegal and poor article policy. CharlusIngus 07:34, 21 February 2007 (UTC)