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Contributor copyright investigations (CCI) is a process intended to identify users who have repeatedly committed copyright violations in articles or uploaded many copyrighted images (typically over a long period of time), and is intended to systematically remove this infringing material. This process begins with the filing of a CCI by an editor who notices a large-scale pattern of copyright violation by an individual contributor and, if the case is approved, will lead to a complete survey of their contributions, followed by removal of any material suspected to be infringing copyright.

This process is intended for large-scale systematic copyright violations only. Persistent unattributed copying or translation within Wikipedia or from other Wikimedia properties or compatibly licensed sources may also be raised here. To list individual media files or articles for evaluation, see Wikipedia:Copyright problems or Wikipedia:Files for discussion; however, attempting resolution is not required prior to filing a CCI request.

When and how should a CCI be started?

As a rule of thumb, at least five instances of clear copyvios (copy/pasting of unlicensed third party material; clear derivative works) should be required to file a case. There are no other requirements for filing a CCI request.

New cases should be filed by placing the {{subst:CCI-request}} underneath the requests header below.

{{subst:CCI-request
|user = the user subject to the CCI
|evidence = your reasoning for opening the case
}}

Please remember to remain civil. Some contributors violate copyright policies due to a misunderstanding of copyright policies or laws, rather than malicious intent. While it may be necessary to intervene to prevent future copyright issues, it is not helpful to treat individuals listed here discourteously. Good faith requests are welcome even if they should prove mistaken. However, please remember that this is a serious allegation and should not be made without evidence. Requests without evidence may be interpreted as harassment.

After submitting a case, please notify the contributor by adding {{subst:CCI-notice}} ~~~~ to the bottom of their talk page. It is not necessary to notify individuals who are currently blocked for copyright infringement, even if temporarily.

Review of CCI requests

Following a CCI request, a CCI clerk or admins will determine whether concerns are substantiated, based on the evidence presented and the response of the editor who is the subject of the CCI. Non-admin clerks may request that an administrator reviews deleted contributions where necessary. If the evidence does not substantiate the concern, the CCI request will be declined, and then filed in the archive subpage.

If a user has requested evaluation of your contributions here, please remember that the purpose of this process is not to harass or embarrass you, but to ensure that Wikipedia remains compliant with copyright laws. If you believe that your contributions have not constituted a copyright problem under Wikipedia's policies, please succinctly provide your rationale. If it should prove that the contributor who made the request is mistaken, this will be noted and the request archived. However, if concerns are substantiated, you may best demonstrate your willingness to comply with Wikipedia's copyright policies by helping to identify and address the copyright issues you have caused.

Accepted cases

Upon accepting a case, a clerk or uninvolved admin will create the appropriate contributor survey subpage and then populate the contribution data.

If contributors have been proven to have a history of extensive copyright violation, it may be assumed without further evidence that all of their major contributions are copyright violations, and thus removed indiscriminately, in accordance with Wikipedia:Copyright violations. If such indiscriminate removal would be controversial or cause considerable collateral damage, an effort must be made to assemble a volunteer force sufficient to evaluate problematic contributions. If insufficient volunteers are available to manage clean-up, presumptive wholesale removal is allowed.

To participate in cases, follow the link of one of the open cases. All contributors with no history of copyright problems are welcome to contribute to clean up, and users who are listed here are encouraged to help clean up their own materials. The user should not expect to receive individual notices of articles or images that are deleted or blanked for copyright concerns during the course of a CCI.

The Y and N (created with {{y}} and {{n}}) templates are used to confirm whether the edit was a copyright issue. The ? (created with {{?}}) template is used to indicate that the edit has already been either deleted or completely rewritten, and therefore confirming whether the edit contained copyright issues is impossible, or else not worth the effort. Upon completion, the CCI case will be filed on the archive subpage.

Requests

Please add any suspected infringers to the FOOT of the list below, following the format at How should a case be filed? above. A CCI clerk or administrator will review your request according to the instructions, then either open the case or close it.

Gihan Jayaweera

Gihan Jayaweera (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Check requested by Justlettersandnumbers (talk)
This user seems to have a long history of copyright problems, with both text and images. Past cases, all now resolved, include:

Beddomixalus bijui from The Hindu
Pseudosphromenus cupanus from Fishbase (not commercially licenced)
Pseudophilautus bambaradeniyai from here
Kaludiya Pokuna Forest from here
Bay cat from Mel Sunquist, Fiona Sunquist (2002). Wild cats of the world. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Other contributions should be checked. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:40, 2 March 2015 (UTC) Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:40, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Issue found (but already addressed): Black-footed cat. Not yet addressed: National Herbarium of Sri Lanka. Out of time, but inclined to open this. And check recent additions. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:28, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

83d40m

83d40m (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Check requested by B (talk)
See Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2015 March 30 starting at File:Bat atop Narmer Palette.JPG and continuing. I have been going through this user's uploads. Most of them are (bad) retouches of images that can be found elsewhere on the internet. All of this user's uploads need to be gone over with a fine-toothed comb. I've spent some Google image search quality time and they are usually retouched (poorly) so as to make it less obvious. Some of these images might be sourced from other Wikipedia images and simply not giving their source. For example, the image from which File:Sarasota Florida - 83d40m - from mainland across bay front to Gulf of Mexico - new bridge.JPG was derived is used all over creation, which often means Wikipedia is the original source. Others, like File:Aegis of Isis - Sudan 300s bc - British Museum - 83d40m.JPG, are plainly from other websites and flagrant copyvios. B (talk) 15:10, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fulleraaron

Fulleraaron (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Check requested by —Мандичка^YO 😜
This editor appears to have a few instances of copy/paste. I completely rewrote the article on Ursula Brennan, which he created in 2011 with almost 100 percent from the British government news release from 2010. After I rewrote it I decided to look at other articles this user created—
Ursula Brennan: See flag I put on talk page, compare link with earlier version of article
Martyn Goff: largely copy/pasted from Obituary (you may need a Times login to check as Copyvios redirected to login page, but I can email the article text if requested), other sentences from The Guardian obit Copyvios report: 62.9 percent coincident
Albert Miles: ripped off from WSJ obituary: 90.2 percent coincidence
Simon Parr: 58.2 percent coincidence
Colette Paul - stub but copied: 57.0 coincidence
Nick Gargan - 44.8 percent
Sally Vincent - 67.4 percent - this number is skewed higher because there are some quotes, but there are also two sentences that should be have been rewritten instead of just copied.
Hugh Gurling - 59.9 percent
Elizabeth Hill (linguist) - 48.5 percent
William Frankland (immunologist) - 67 percent
Hotel du Lac (film) - 29.0 percent - stub but description is copied

I didn't look at the articles he's edited, only the ones he's created, but I highly recommend checking other contributions. —Мандичка^YO 😜 04:22, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

National Names 2000

National Names 2000 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Check requested by ThaddeusB (talk)
I noticed a copyright violation posted by NN2000 in April 2015 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwrecks and warned him. I then looked into his past contributions - every non-trivial edit since April 9 was a copyright violation. Either by copy & pasting a couple lines from a news source (usually adding "in 2015, " or similar) or by copy and pasting a Google translation of a foreign language news source - poor grammar and all. Here are some of the reverts: [1][2][3][4][5] Conviently, the source of the violations is linked as a source. Note: User may be related to Jackninja5 who was previously committing such violations (I will be reopening a SPI with this new evidence, as the previous one was declined). --ThaddeusB (talk) 19:45, 24 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Huggi

Huggi (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Check requested by Justlettersandnumbers (talk)
Numerous copyright problems, many of them already dealt with, including:

Draft:Superloop from http://en.prnasia.com/story/107761-0.shtml (cleaned)
Draft:Bevan Slattery from http://www.megaport.com/resources/downloads/MegaportSingaporeCommitmentRelease.pdf (nominated for speedy deletion as G12)
Open Platform for NFV from https://www.opnfv.org/about (blanked and listed)
Graphical Network Simulator-3 from http://practiceconfig.blogspot.it/2013/06/gns3-graphical-network-simulator.html (blanked and listed)
Harish Pillay from http://isoc.sg/leadership/ (though not deleted for that reason)
Herdict from http://www.herdict.org/ (deleted as G12)
Management and Orchestration from http://network-functions-virtualization.com/mano.html (deleted as G7)
Virtual PC Simulator from http://sourceforge.net/projects/vpcs/ (deleted as A7, G12)
Network edge device from only source (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Network edge device)

File:Harish Pilay Portrait.jpg and File:Thomas Kupfer.png were deleted as copyright violations by Diannaa. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:38, 30 April 2015 (UTC) Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:38, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

WPPilot

WPPilot (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Check requested by Justlettersandnumbers (talk)
Copyright problems found and removed at Lee Behel – please see Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2014 September 20, where the user was clearly warned about copyright policy. Subsequent problems include:

Given the concerns about unattributed copying within Wikipedia expressed here and partially listed here, I believe all contributions should be checked. The user is indeffed for other reasons. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 08:58, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Open investigations

Closed investigations

All closed investigations, as well as requests that were declined, can be found at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Archive.

Templates

See Category:CCI templates.

Template:CCI: placed on article talk pages to note cleanup
Template:CCId: placed on article talk pages when it has been tagged presumptively for deletion review in one week
Template:CCI-notice: to notify contributors of a new listing
Template:CCI-project: to notify a project of a CCI with which they may help
Template:CCI-request: to request new investigations
Template:CCI-open: to denote open CCI requests, this template should only be used by a clerk or administrator
Template:CCI update: to notify people who have assisted in a CCI that it is finished.

Put new listings under investigation requests, above.

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+&nbsp;<font size="3">'''WPPilot'''</font>
+*{{User5|WPPilot}}
+*Check requested by [[User:Justlettersandnumbers|Justlettersandnumbers]] ([[User talk:Justlettersandnumbers|talk]])
+*Copyright problems found and removed at [[Lee Behel]] – please see [[Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2014 September 20]], where the user was clearly warned about copyright policy. Subsequent problems include:
+:* [[Precious Metal (aircraft)]] from http://www.globalaviationresource.com/v2/2013/09/09/world-jet-inc-p51xr-n6wj-precious-metal/ (blanked)
+:* [[Steven Hinton, Jr.]] from https://web.archive.org/web/20120908014024/http://www.airracers-thefilm.com/Steve-Hinton and http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=a7de0686-3d01-4f29-b6c8-36f56ec4d916
+:* [[Doug Matthews]] from http://www.navalaviationlegacy.org/pilot_matthews_doug.htm (deleted as G12).
+:Given the concerns about unattributed [[WP:copying within Wikipedia|copying within Wikipedia]] expressed {{oldid|User talk:Moonriddengirl|660457659|here}} and partially listed {{oldid|User talk:Justlettersandnumbers|660529325|here}}, I believe all contributions should be checked. The user is indeffed for other reasons. [[User:Justlettersandnumbers|Justlettersandnumbers]] ([[User talk:Justlettersandnumbers|talk]]) 08:58, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
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