Talk:Plattsburgh Air Force Base

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It appears that most of the edit I started working from stole directly from the following website: SAC Bases: Plattsburgh AFB I contacted the owner of the site about the issue, and he initially responded as follows:

The section dealing with SAC bases has been on the web for at least six years, so I do not recall the author. I do know that most of the pages dealing with bases make extensive use of information obtained from the Air Force History Office book on Air Force bases. At the time the article on Plattsburgh AFB was written there was a large website dedicated to the base, so much of the information may have come from it. if there are similarities, they probably result from both articles being based on the same source material. Hope this helps. Marv

He later responded with the following after taking a more detailed look at the article:

I just went out and checked the Wikipedia article.

I noticed that it contained the accident bulletin on the B-52 that crashed into three tankers.

I was at Plattsburgh when it happened and the accident was so spectacular that I saved the SAC Accident prevention bulletin which I posted to my website. To my knowledge, I am the only one to have ever had that information.

It seems that whoever wrote the Wikipedia article used a lot of material from my website.

Marv

Based on the fact that he seems to be the primary source for the information, I am led to believe the article was plagarized in whole from his website. I have flagged the section disputed in the second email; it needs to be either removed or substantially rewritten.--Cg-realms 18:15, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

I deleted the most objectionable, except for the documentation, which is from a US govt source. Its tone, particularly the implied first person account, is original research, forbidden and therefore deletable. The remainder will be re-written from time-to-time but for now will be left as is since most is unit history and appears to originally derive from USAF sources. --Buckboard 17:01, 15 April 2007 (UTC)