Talk:Politics of Kyrgyzstan

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Seems to be remarkably similar to http://www.russiannewsnetwork.com/politics/kyrgyzstan-pol.html - possible copyvio? --131.111.8.96 22:30, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)

more like a possible citation problem. A wikipedian wrote me about it, and here's what I wrote back:

That was originally a public domain writeup taken from the CIA website and/or the U.S. Department of State website. Both are public domain sources; sometimes one will cover something that the other doesn't; sometimes they're in disagreement.

I neglected to cite them all when I imported them, and I was working on a spreadsheet of what came from where so that some enterprising soul who knows how to write a solid bot could have it go through and add the citations. But then there was a disagreement between Mav and some other fellow about adding the citations after this other fellow had worked on it--he felt it an insult to his work to add the citation (no, I don't remember how it was worded, though Mav might be able to point you to it).

Anyway so I just dropped the issue and I think Mav did too. Nonetheless this issue comes up all the time, and it's my fault for not citing them properly in the first place.

I gave up on the spreadsheet. I'd made it through Slovakia on the countries and hadn't yet started on the territories, islands, etc. I've last worked on it October 23 2003. I can send it along for someone else to continue, if anyone has any interest in it.

Feel free to post this response anywhere you see fit; this question comes up fairly frequently.

KQ

[edit] Comments from Wikipedia:Copyright problems

• Politics of Kyrgyzstan from [1]--has noncopyvio parts from CIA, but I'm not sure how to remove the copyvio w/o removing all of it. Meelar 22:35, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • I think this may be the other way around since the text in question was written by Koyaanis Qatsi 2 years ago diff. Maximus Rex 22:58, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
    • Have emailed Koyaanis Qatsi to try to find out...
      • Here's what I have in the unfinished spreadsheet referenced at Politics of Kyrgyzstan: Politics of Kyrgyzstan y http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5755.htm . If anyone would care for that spreadsheet, with pointers on where to look to finish it (something like "Status of the porting of the U.S. Department of State info), I'd be happy to send it so these kinds of questions can quit coming up. Essentially you should treat skeptically any claim to copyright of one of our country pages on History / Politics / Geography / Economy / Demographics / Communications / Transportation / Military / Foreign relations. But these questions will keep coming up until the pages all have proper citations, and that's a job for a bot. See Talk:Politics_of_Kyrgyzstan for further explanation. Koyaanis Qatsi 15:56, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)