Talk:Second Virginia Charter

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I think that every person should be noteworthy in the Second Virginia Charter like

If the creator of the page could say that they had created it from an old book, it would be fine. But they have given a URL of a page which clearly says © 1994- 2005. All rights reserved. -- RHaworth 22:41, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright notices only apply to parts of the work which are actually created by the copyright notice owner. If I reproduce your content in my book and slap my copyright notice on it, your content doesn't suddenly become my work. Similarly, if I reproduce public domain content in my book and slap my copyright notice on it, public domain material doesn't suddenly become copyrighted. theProject 00:06, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am comparing with EB - see

The reason why I want to keep this page is becuase it is a large list of the first settlers who had land given to them by King James. --Kylests 00:05, 11 August 2006 (UTC)Kyle Mackenzie Street[reply]

• A long list of names is totally unencyclopedic. If any other of the signatories already have Wikipedia articles, you may put them back. Otherwise, do not clog up Wikipedia with unformatted non-knowledge. -- RHaworth 00:41, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]