Talk:Tactics

The text of this article is taken directly from http://www.militaryspot.com/tactical.htm under the GNU Free Documentation License. --Charles Sandberg 15:53, 8 June 2007 (CDT)

But that website seems to be "all rights reserved"? Yi Zhe Wu 16:51, 8 June 2007 (CDT)

The website does say at the bottom of the article that it's GFDL. The first few paragraphs are identical with the Wikipedia article on Military tactics. Anthony Argyriou 17:03, 8 June 2007 (CDT)

Oh, sorry, must have overlooked that. An attribution has been added at the bottom of the article. Yi Zhe Wu 17:07, 8 June 2007 (CDT)

It says "All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License." at the bottom of the text. --Charles Sandberg 18:37, 8 June 2007 (CDT)

It also comes from:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_tactics

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincer_movement

I am therefore going to check the box.

There are also some other things.

From the article:

"The chariot was invented in the 3rd millennium BC and the very first chariots were apparently too slow and cumbersome to actually serve in battle. In about 2000 BC chariots appeared in the Western Steppe, Mesopotamia, Turkey, and Syria and soon spread all over the world."

Compare with:

"Invented in the 3rd millennium BC, the first chariots seem to have been too slow and cumbersome to serve in combat, but about 2000 BC the light, horse-drawn, two-wheeled vehicles destined to revolutionize tactics appeared in the Western Steppe and Mesopotamia, Syria, and Turkey, from which they spread in all directions." From http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-53004/tactics

To the degree that is a copyright matter, I think it is just too close for comfort and should be paraphrased better and attributed.

I have asked Richard Jensen to follow through further on this to the degree it is a content matter.

To those who would import content from WP or elsewhere: caveat emptor.

Stephen Ewen 02:11, 27 June 2007 (CDT)