Talk:Building construction

Looks like (poorly) scanned text dumped here without cleaning up formatting. May be very difficult to ascertain independently whether this is Public Domain or not. I'll ask the author though. -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen 06:52, Oct 13, 2003 (UTC)

Hmm. Dumped by IP. Might be hard to contact. But the first dump-version did contain the following boiler-plate:

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For research purposes only? I wonder if that has any legal standing whatever? -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen 07:01, Oct 13, 2003 (UTC)

Well I dare say the article has moved on now, but the above implies the original text was taken from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica so the copyright should be OK and the article could have had a {{1911}} tag attached. -- Solipsist 08:42, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)