Talk:History of Falls Church

Impressive, but the book you cite (copy) extensively is copyrighted material, and this verbatim repetition would seem to exceed "fair use" by WP guidelines and US Government laws.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.192.220.36 (talk • contribs) 23:19, 9 July 2010 UTC

Hardly. I am Bradley E. Gernand--the book's author.Oklahombre (talk) 16:24, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The article contains few quote marks, and no indented quotes that I saw. Thus, it should be a paraphrase of the cited sources. If it really is "verbatim repetition" then it gives the appearance of plagiarism, even if it really isn't. If it is really a paraphrase, there is no problem. As many facts may be copied from any non-secret source as desired, so long as the way of expressing the facts is not copied. Jc3s5h (talk) 20:46, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Post-War / Civil Rights Era

This post-war through Civil Rights era could use a lot more detail, including the founding of the first rural chapter of the NAACP in response to the town's residential segregation ordinance (eventually overturned), the founding of the City of Falls Church in the midst of Virginia and the nation's desegregation crisis, the city's exclusion of African American students--busing them out to Fairfax County--and fights to desegregate schools and public life (e.g., the State Theatre) in Falls Church City. The long, multi-header section on the Civil War is not really a model--it's already too long and too narrative for an encyclopedia entry, in my opinion--but Falls Church's recent history is fairly well documented and deserves more attention here. If I had time at the moment, I'd start on it, but I'm hoping others out there might do the same? Troutfang (talk) 12:35, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]