Talk:Veterans of Foreign Wars

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[edit] Copyvio

Chunks copied directly from http://www.vfw.org/index.cfm?fa=news.levelc&cid=223

Does the author have permission to do so?—Preceding unsigned comment added by Mykdavies (talk • contribs)

  • The above observation no longer appears to be the case. This comment was left two years ago, some rewrites have apparently been done since. Crockspot 17:11, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] moresources tag

The moresources tag is on because the article only cites self-published primary sources. There are a couple of statements tagged that really should be sourced by reliable secondary sources. An editor removed the tag, but I have put it back. Crockspot 17:07, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

  • Agreed. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 18:31, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removing paragraph

VFW once forbade atheists from joining, but in January of 2004 they rescinded this policy.[citation needed] By specifying overseas service, the organization excluded veterans from the American Civil War.[citation needed]

I flagged these statements several months ago. I could not find any sources for either (and I looked pretty hard), and no one else has either. The rules of WP:BLP are now considered extended to "living" organizations as well. I don't really see the relevance of either sentence anyway, especially since the organization was founded more than 70 years after the Civil War. I'm removing it. - Crockspot 02:32, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

  • It was actually less than 50 years after the Civil War, but the information is still irrelevant, the whole point of the organization was originally to provide an organization for veterans of the Spanish-American War, as Civil War vets has the Grand Army of the Republic. As time went on they expanded and merged to encompass all foreign wars.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 00:37, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 05:03, 14 July 2007 (UTC)