Talk:Los Angeles Marathon

message: What is meant in the opening paragraph about "SRLA's colors"?  What is SRLA and what does it have to do with the marathon?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.149.249.235 (talk) 23:21, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Unknown Acronym

message: The statistics were copied from http://www.lamarathon.com/2004/his-winners.php. I am uncertain if it is acceptable to leave the tables as is, or even if copying statistics such as these is acceptable in Wikipedia. Any suggestions? -Xanadu 21:01, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Dear Sir or Madam, I hope my edits to this article have addressed your problem. Thank you so much for your input. With your help, we can keep making Wikipedia a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit! --Cumbiagermen 11:32, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Use of Statistics

message: WTF with the LA Marathon site going down? Bizarre! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mil8 (talk • contribs) 04:39, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You are making too much hoopla out of the whole website issue. The LA Marathon website actually experiences a lot of downtime in the days following the race, so this isn't a new thing. In a couple of days or maybe a week at the most, the site will be up again, perhaps already containing the date for the 23rd race next year. --Cumbiagermen 06:36, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Official Website

message: Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20100723182504/http://www.lamarathon.com/about-us/history/. Infringing material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  SFB 00:45, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears as if this material was copied by someone associated with the running of the competition, as the official history appeared just three days before it was posted here. However, without explicit permission, the material is not compliant with Wikipedia's licensing. The official history should be a good starting point for referencing, but ideally this article should be written by someone independent from the subject. SFB 00:45, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed