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Intro

Articles really ought to have an introductory blurb at the beginning, so I digested the article and wrote a short one. Nice little article. It's good to see contributed photos, too. --Darkbane 13:35, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright

On another note, I am worried about possible copyright infringement as the official site has descriptions that are very similar, making me think that most of this article was copy-pasted and some words changed. The Grounds and Architecture section are also directly lifted from the homepage. If you are the original author of the text, you need to indicate on the homepage that the text is either in the public domain or published as GFDL. Please address these concerns, as I'd hate to blank out this article and replace it with a copyright investigation notice. --Darkbane 13:47, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How different does the article need to be from the source of information? One rule requires no original research, another says don't copy someone else's research. Where is the middle road? --Mactographer 08:03, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you are not the original author and/or do not hold the copyright to the original text, it needs to be written from scratch. You can use the original stuff by writing from scratch and inserting citations (mostly for anything that is likely to be disputed, but a citation for some number or so will help establish verifiability), in which case it will no longer fall under original research either. --Darkbane ^talk 11:48, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I've done the best I can on the first half. Problem is, history flows in a chronological format. The stuff that happens first, gets mentioned first, and so on. So I pretty much have rewritten the history in the same order since the official site is my only known major source of history. So it looks like it's copied. Don't know how to fix that. --Mactographer 08:33, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In my understanding it's perfectly acceptable to read a source and then write it again in your own words. It's copypasting and then changing a couple of words that is the real problem. I wanted to bring this to your attention, and now you are aware of it. =) --Darkbane ^talk 11:56, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like you've done some nice work. I like the info box too. Thanks for the help getting this listing up to snuff. --Mactographer 21:53, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. It looked interesting and it's very different from what I usually do. --Darkbane ^talk 23:19, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just thought I'd mention, if anyone wants to include this, that we used this location in the film "American Daughter" (Amerikanskaya doch) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112348/, a Russian-American co-production, back in 1994. I was on crew for the film, and it probably was a widely released movie inside Russia since the director's a major one domestically there. In the film, the house was the US home of the title character and her mother, being pursued by her real father from Russia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.68.11.246 (talk) 05:39, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Coordinates

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the Dunsmuir house is not downtown ?!

Looks like the information in the National Historic Registry is inaccurate. — Dispenser 15:05, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]