Is it me, or are there some seriously over excited people about this stuff? One guy called me lazy...may be, if its in the rules, its in the rules.  I will be perfectly frank, this kind of stuff turns peoople off. i was telling a friend that uses Wiki and he thought they [the deleters] were over the edge...if the info is pubklic domain, no matter how it gets there, it should be allowed. Unless wiki re-writes its "consititution". Your thoughts?  
 : I think once a decision to delete has been made, the original doesn't want to reverse him- or herself, and other administrators are loathe to second-guess their peer. If the naval article is of good quality (it seems to be), then my view is that using it as the base of a wikipedia article is just good reuse. Maybe it's lazy, but in the sense of "efficient", not in the sense of "apathetic".