Talk:William B. Caldwell

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[edit] Verbatim unsourced bio

The bio on this page is a verbatim copy of ELEVEN paragraphs without attribution, from an article entitled "Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV: Senior Military Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense," by Casie Vinall, Special to American Forces Press Service. The article is available online here.

As it stands now, this is unequivocally plagiarism; given the amount of text reproduced, even adding the proper attribution will probably not be sufficient. I strongly recommend removing the page until this issue is addressed.

As an aside, a page on Maj. Gen. Caldwell should include that the first "Deputy Secretary of Defense" for whom he worked was Paul Wolfowitz. Clearly, this is an historically significant fact of Caldwell's career.

Finally, I apologize for adding such a strong comment, despite being unable to work on this project myself. I just happened across this Wiki page while researching Caldwell, immediately after reading the defenselink.mil article mentioned above. Todd Johnston 23:12, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

DoD websites are public domain, hence they can be copied verbatim.--Nobunaga24 00:01, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

My apologies, and I stand corrected. I momentarily spaced on the .mil tld, i.e. the content existing in the public domain. However, because the article does provide an author, it would certainly be polite to include an attribution. And, even though works in the public domain are not protected by copyrights, altering these works can, in certain cases, violate a person's "moral rights" and/or fall under forgery, fraud, and libel laws.

Again, sorry, and thanks for being polite about my brain fart. --Todd Johnston 03:20, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

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Can someone include the field manuals that Lt. Gen. Caldwell has worked on? He published a field manual recently, which he spoke about on The Daily Show today (10Mar2008). I imagine that it was a strategic manual for counterinsurgency. I hope that someone who knows will include this information.--Beezer137 (talk) 03:33, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

The field manual which was discussed on The Daily Show can be found on the Fort Leavenworth website, FM 3-0 Operations, February 2008, as well as a recorded video file of his segment in .wmv format here LTG Caldwell on The Daily Show -Signaleer (talk) 20:07, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Updating the article

I have come out of "retirement" from Wikipedia and plan to make some changes to this article. My goal is to increase the credibility of this article, reorganize the existing content and cite credible references for the information. If you have any comments or concerns please contact me on my user talk page, I have outlined in my personal sandbox a rough draft (Note: this is my personal sandbox, do not make changes to this userpage, comments are welcomed on my user talk page in reference to this sandbox. -Signaleer (talk) 20:27, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

If anyone would like to make constructive changes on my sandbox page in reference to this article, please click the link that will take you to User:Signaleer/Sandbox/Caldwell for the sandbox for Lt. Gen. Caldwell. Input would be most appreciated. -Signaleer (talk) 19:04, 17 March 2008 (UTC)