Talk:International Search and Rescue Advisory Group

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To the CorenSearchBot-discussion the text is public domain because it is from an UN Page. HBR2 (talk) 00:31, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Copyright problems, other issues

Edits to this article in March 2011 restored content copied from UN sources, including [1] and INSARAG GUIDELINES AND METHODOLOGY (available as a word download from ochaonline.un.org). For one example, this article said:

The INSARAG Mandate entails the development of effective international USAR procedures and operational standards, implementation of UN General Assembly Resolution 57/150 of 22 December 2002 on “Strengthening the effectiveness and coordination of USAR assistance”, improving cooperation and coordination amongst international USAR teams at disaster sites, promoting activities to improve USAR preparedness in disaster prone countries, development of standardized guidelines and procedures and sharing of best practices amongst national and international USAR teams and defining standards for minimum requirements of international USAR teams.

The INSARAG GUIDELINES AND METHODOLOGY say:

The INSARAG Mandate entails the development of effective international USAR procedures and operational standards, implementation of UN General Assembly Resolution 57/150 of 22 December 2002 on “Strengthening the effectiveness and coordination of USAR assistance”, improving cooperation and coordination amongst international USAR teams at disaster sites, promoting activities to improve USAR preparedness in disaster prone countries, development of standardized guidelines and procedures and sharing of best practices amongst national and international USAR teams and defining standards for minimum requirements of international USAR teams.

This is not all the duplication I detected to that source. Other sentences and paragraphs were copied as well. Given that duplication can be confirmed, I've reverted the article to the prior state. In spite of the note above, UN content is not public domain; see [2]. We need verification that this material is licensed properly for us to publish it.

Beyond copyright concerns, the material is not entirely in keeping with Wikipedia's mandate. We are here to provide an encyclopedic overview of a notable organization. We are not a web host and certainly not a resource for promoting the organization, no matter how worthy it is. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:27, 22 March 2011 (UTC)