Talk:Knox Mine disaster

A fact from Knox Mine disaster appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 June 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that 12 died in the 1959 Knox Mine Disaster when the Susquehanna River crashed into a Pennsylvania anthracite coal mine?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2004/June.

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Copyright violation?[edit]

This text is mostly copied from [1]. Does someone have permission to copy? It does not appear to be public domain. Ydorb 19:56, Jun 14, 2004 (UTC)

Please list it on Wikipedia:Copyright problems. RickK 20:01, Jun 14, 2004 (UTC)

Perhaps an admin would like to take this page off the Did You Know section on the main page? Lisiate 21:41, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Geez, there is no reason to assume that it's copyrighted. It's off of a government website without copyright notice and credit was given to the author. It looks like a press release for Robert P. Wolensky's book. At any rate, I wrote Bob Wolensky for explicit wikipedia permission. Waiting for a reply. In the mean time I going to reconsider advocating wiki*.org. It's a little to anal retentive around here. [2] Buster 23:05, Jun 14, 2004 (UTC)

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Knox Mine Disaster from [2] Probably copyright of author or of Pennsylvania Rmhermen 20:40, Jun 14, 2004 (UTC)
- I strongly oppose simply deleting an entry for "presumed" copyright violations. Pennsylvania declares it's government archives without copyright notice as "for public use". Further more, IMHO this article appears to be fair use as a press release. Avoid Copyright Paranoia Buster 14:06, Jun 15, 2004 (UTC)
  - I emailed the author for GFDL release on Jun 15, but have not received a response. The response I got from Pennsylvania's' webmaster was the standard, canned, pass the buck answer, "ask the original author for permissions". I suppose policy will dictate this articles future. When in doubt delete or keep? I don't care. Buster 05:12, Jun 25, 2004 (UTC)
    - As we have heard nothing, it is clearly written by Robert P. Wolensky, it's not public domain (if it was we wouldn't have got the canned response from the web master) I am presuming it's a copyvio. It's not a press release - it's an article. Secretlondon 02:38, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Renaming?[edit]

See Category talk:Mining disasters for a discussion on whether to rename this and similar articles to remove the capitalisation. Ziggurat 21:37, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Permanent inundation?[edit]

Was the water completely pumped out, or are portions of the mines still inundated to this day? 199.46.249.153 (talk) 22:30, 10 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Coal cars full of straw[edit]

My father, Robert Millard was train master for the Pennsylvania Rail Road and was responsible for shoving many coal cars full of straw into the whirl pool trying to stop the flow, but all efforts failed untill a coffer dam was built. As I remember it was weeks of dumping coal cars into the hole. 2600:387:C:6B36:0:0:0:8 (talk) 21:00, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]