Wikipedia:Copyright problems
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This page is for listing and discussing possible copyright problems involving text on Wikipedia, including pages suspected to be copyright violations. Listings typically remain for at least five days before review and closure by a copyright problems clerk or administrator. During this time, interested contributors are invited to offer feedback, propose revisions, or request copyright permission.
Listed pages appear in the bottom section of the page. For additional guidance, see Instructions for dealing with text-based copyright concerns.
To add a new listing, go to today's section.
Instructions
Handling previously published text on Wikipedia
Under the United States law that governs Wikipedia, copyright is automatically assumed as soon as any content (text or other media) is created in a physical form. An author does not need to apply for or claim copyright, for a copyright to exist.
Only one of the following allows works to be reused in Wikimedia projects:
A) Explicit Statement. An explicit statement (by the author, or by the holder of the rights to the work) that the material is either:
- in the public domain,
- licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA), or
- otherwise compatible with CC-BY-SA.
B) Public Domain. If the work is inherently in the public domain, due to its age, source or lack of originality; or
C) Fair Use. United States law allows for fair use of copyrighted content, and (within limits) Wikipedia does as well. Under guidelines for non-free content, brief selections of copyrighted text may be used, but only if clearly marked and with full attribution.
Even if a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, material should be properly attributed in accordance with Wikipedia:Plagiarism in respect of local customs and attribution requirements of compatible licenses. If the terms of the compatible license are not met, use of the content can constitute a violation of copyright even if the license is compatible.
Repeated copyright violations
Contributors who repeatedly post copyrighted text or images may be subject to contributor copyright investigations, to ensure the removal from the project of all copyright infringement. Contributors who repeatedly post copyrighted material after appropriate warnings will be blocked from editing, to protect the project; see 17 United States Code § 512.
Instructions for dealing with text-based copyright concerns
Blatant infringement
Pages exhibiting blatant copyright infringements may be speedily deleted if:
- Content was copied from a source which does not have a license compatible with Wikipedia, and was not copied from a mirror source.
- The page can neither be restored to a previous revision without infringing content, nor would the page be viable if the infringing content were removed.
- There is no credible assertion of public domain, fair use, or a free license.
To nominate an article for speedy deletion for copyright concerns, add one of these to the page:
{{db-copyvio|url=insert URL of source here}}
{{db-copyvio|describe non-web source here}}
Both of these templates will generate a notice that you should give the contributor of the content. This is important to help ensure that they do not continue to add copyrighted content to Wikipedia. An administrator will examine the article and decide whether to delete it or not. You should not blank the page in this instance.
Suspected or complicated infringement
If infringement is not blatant or the speedy deletion criteria do not apply:
- Remove or rewrite the infringing text avoiding copyright violations or revert the page to before the text was added.
- The infringing text will remain in the page history, and it may be tagged for {{copyvio-revdel}}. Administrators hold discretion on the appropriateness of revision deletion for each case. Please note the reason for removal in the edit summary and at the article's talk page (you may wish to use {{subst:cclean}}). Please identify and alert the contributor of the material to the problem, unless advised not to. The template {{Uw-copyright}} may be used for this purpose.
- However, if all revisions have copyright problems, the removal of the copyright problem is contested, reversion/removal is otherwise complicated, or the article is eligible for presumptive deletion:
- Place one of the following above the infringing text:
{{subst:copyvio|url=insert URL here}}
{{subst:copyvio|identify non-web source here}}
- Optionally place
{{subst:Copyvio/bottom}}
below if only some of the article infringes.
- Go to today's section and add:
{{subst:article-cv|PageName}}
from [insert URL or identify non-web source here] ~~~~
- to the bottom of the list. Put the page's name in place of "PageName". If you do not have a URL, enter a description of the source. (This text can be copied from the top of the template after substituting it and the page name and url will be filled for you.) If there is not already a page for the day, as yours would be the first listing, please add a header to the top of the page using the page for another date as an example.
- Advise the contributor of the listing at their talk page. The template on the now blanked page supplies a notice you may use for that purpose.
Instructions for special cases
- Probable copyvios without a known source: If you suspect that a page contains a copyright violation, but you cannot find a source for the violation (so you can't be sure that it's a violation), do not list it here. Instead, place
{{cv-unsure|~~~|2=FULL_URL}}
on the page's talk page, but replace FULL_URL with the full URL of the page version that you believe contains a violation. (To determine the URL, click on "Permanent link" in the toolbox area, and copy the URL.) - One contributor has verifiably introduced copyright problems into multiple pages or files and assistance is needed in further review: See Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations.
Instructions for handling image copyright concerns
Image copyright concerns are not handled on this board. For images that are clear copyright violations, follow the procedure for speedy deletion; otherwise list at Files for Discussion. To request assistance with contributors who have infringed copyright in multiple articles or files, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations.
Responding to articles listed for copyright investigation
Any contributor is welcome to help investigate articles listed for copyright concerns, although only administrators, copyright problems board clerks, and VRT (formerly OTRS) agents should remove {{copyvio}} tags and mark listings resolved.
Assistance might include supplying evidence of non-infringement (or, conversely, of infringement) or obtaining and verifying permission of license. You might also help by rewriting problematic articles or removing infringing text (without removing {{copyvio}}).
Supplying evidence of non-infringement
Articles listed here are suspect of copyright concern, but not every article contains infringement. The content may be on Wikipedia first, in the public domain, compatibly licensed, or falls below threshold of originality for copyright. Sometimes, the person who placed it here is the copyright owner of freely-licensed material and this simply needs to be verified.
Information can be provided to prove compatible licensing or public domain status under the listing of the article on the copyright problems board or on the talk page of the article. A link or a clear explanation can be very helpful when a clerk or administrator evaluates the matter. As listings are not immediately addressed on the board, it may take a few days after you make your note before a response is provided.
If the article is tagged for {{copyvio}}, you should allow an administrator or copyright problems clerk to remove the tag. If the article is tagged for {{copy-paste}} or {{close paraphrasing}}, you may remove the tag from the article when the problem is addressed (or disproven), but please do not close the listing on the copyright problems board itself.
Obtaining/verifying permission
Sometimes material was placed on Wikipedia with the permission of the copyright owner. Sometimes copyright owners are willing to give permission (and proper license!) even if it was not.
Any contributor can write to the owner of copyright and check whether they gave or will give permission (or maybe they in fact posted it here!). See Wikipedia:Example requests for permission. In either case, unless a statement authorizing the material under compatible license is placed online at the point of original publication, permission will need to be confirmed through e-mail to the Wikimedia Foundation. See Wikipedia:Confirmation of permission. If a compatible license is placed online at the point of original publication, please provide a link to that under the listing for the article on the copyright problems board or on the talk page of the article.
Please note that it may take a few days for letters to clear once they are sent. Do not worry if the content is deleted prematurely; it can be restored at any point usable permission is logged.
Rewriting content
Any contributor may rewrite articles that are or seem to be copyight problems to exclude duplicated or closely paraphrased text. When articles or sections of articles are blanked as copyright problems, rewriting is done on a temporary page at Talk:PAGENAME/Temp so that the new material can be copied over the old. (The template blanking the article will link to the specific temporary page.)
Please do not copy over the version of the article that is a copyright problem as your base. All copied content, or material derived from it, should be removed first. Other content from the article can be used, if there is no reason to believe that it may be a copyright issue as well. It is often a good idea – and essential when the content is copied from an inaccessible source such as a book – to locate the point where the material entered the article and eliminate all text added by that contributor. This will help avoid inadvertently continuing the copyright issues in your rewrite. If you use any text at all from the earlier version of the article, please leave a note on the listing to alert the administrator or clerk who review the rewrite. The history of the old article will then have to be retained. (If the original turns out to be non-infringing, the two versions of the article can be merged.)
Rewrites can be done directly in articles that have been tagged for {{close paraphrasing}} and {{copy-paste}}, with those tags removed after the rewrite is complete.
Please review Wikipedia:Copy-paste and the linked guidelines and policies within it if necessary to review Wikipedia's practices for handling non-free text. Reviewing Wikipedia:Plagiarism is also helpful, particularly where content is compatibly licensed or public domain. Repairing these issues can sometimes be as simple as supplying proper attribution.
Copyright owners who submitted their own work to Wikipedia (or people editing on their behalf)
If you submitted work to Wikipedia which you had previously published and your submission was marked as a potential infringement of copyright, then stating on the article's talk page that you are the copyright holder of the work (or acting as his or her agent), while not likely to prevent deletion, helps. To completely resolve copyright concerns, it is sufficient to either:
- Link to a note permitting reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts) at the site of the original publication; or
- Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation, ideally using the email template at WP:CONSENT.
See also Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
Please note that it may take a bit of time for letters and e-mails to clear once they are sent. Do not worry if the content is deleted prematurely; it can be restored at any point usable permission is logged. Your e-mail will receive a response whether the permission is usable or not. If you have not received a response to your letter within two weeks, it is a good idea to follow up.
One other factor you should consider, however, is that content that has been previously published elsewhere may not meet Wikipedia's specific guidelines and policies. If you are not familiar with these policies and guidelines, please review especially the core policies that govern the project. This may help prepare you to deal with any other issues with the text that may arise.
Should you choose to rewrite the content rather than release it under the requisite license, please see above.
Clerks and patrolling administrators
Copyright clerks
For a more complete description of clerks and their duties, as well as a list of active clerks, please see Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Clerks.
Copyright clerks are experienced editors on Wikipedia who are familiar with copyright and non-free content policies and its enforcement. They are trusted to evaluate and close listings and request administrative actions when necessary. Clerks are periodically reviewed by other clerks and patrolling administrators.
Copyright problems board administrators
For a more complete description of administrators on Wikipedia, please see Wikipedia:Administrators.
Any administrator may work the copyright problems board. This may involve evaluating listings personally or using tools as necessary to complete closures by clerks. Clerks have been evaluated in their work, and their recommendations may be implemented without double-checking, although any administrator is welcome to review recommendations and discuss them with the clerks in question.
Closing listings
Pages can be processed at any time by anyone, but are not formally closed until a clerk or administrator verifies that all problems are resolved. Pages listed for presumptive deletion stay open for a minimum of 7 days before being processed. VRT agents may close listings at any time.
For advice for resolving listings, see:
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Advice for admins (VRT agents, see section there)
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Advice for clerks
{{CPC}} may be used to denote resolutions of listings by administrators, clerks and VRT agents.
Listings of possible copyright problems
Older than 7 days
- Diego Alfonso de Medrano (history · last edit · rewrite): largely copied from this dissertation (downloads automatically); also visible here. See the two CopyPatrol reports: https://copypatrol.toolforge.org/en/?id=107461288, https://copypatrol.toolforge.org/en/?id=107465032 — Diannaa (talk) 01:31, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. — Diannaa (talk) 23:09, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- Albert Pearson Stewart (history · last edit · rewrite) from [ISBN 0931682215]. This article references the a book by Bennet (ISBN 0931682215) normally, as far as I can tell. But it also contains the text "Permission to use material from Bennett's book was obtained from the head of the Purdue Musical Organizations." which must mean that it contains a lot more than just academic references, requiring permission from the publishing organization. But where (and how) is that re-use permission obtained, released, and recorded? Mikeblas (talk) 02:38, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
VRT pending but not yet verified, relisting under today's entry. Not relisting. Sennecaster (Chat) 16:41, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- What is the difference between "relisting" and "not relisting"? -- Mikeblas (talk) 21:22, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- The template automatically has "Relisting" in it, but I think the ticket will clear up soon and we're not in a massive rush so I chose to not put a new entry under the current day. Sennecaster (Chat) 21:31, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- OK, thanks! -- Mikeblas (talk) 01:39, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
- It's been a couple of months ... what are the next steps here? Another listing and not relisting, or something else? -- Mikeblas (talk) 09:46, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Mikeblas: Apologies for the delayed response, IRL got very busy. The VRT ticket has no activity, but there is a rewrite that an admin can move into place that is okay. @CusterDome, thank you for the rewrite and apologies for the lengthy response time this took. Sennecaster (Chat) 06:05, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- The template automatically has "Relisting" in it, but I think the ticket will clear up soon and we're not in a massive rush so I chose to not put a new entry under the current day. Sennecaster (Chat) 21:31, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- What is the difference between "relisting" and "not relisting"? -- Mikeblas (talk) 21:22, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- I have rewritten the Albert Pearson Stewart to be in conformance with copyright restrictions. I posted the rewrite in a link that was originally provided. CusterDome (talk) 19:31, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Viable rewrite proposed; rewrite on temp page can be merged into the article. Overlapping content is ok. Not sure how to do the attribution right now so leaving for someone else. Sennecaster (Chat) 06:03, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- Histmerge completed. MER-C 18:23, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
- Arab archery (history · last edit · rewrite) from [aramcoworld.com/en-US/Articles/July-2017/Hadrian-s-Syrians-1]. I don't see any mention of a publication date, but it does cite commons at some point. Geardona (talk to me?) 23:26, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Citing commons isn't an indicator because it's required for most licenses (CC-BY-SA). Sennecaster (Chat) 16:14, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/SasiSasi. Not the full article but about 60% of it. Wizardman 02:29, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 11:12, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- Lieb–Liniger model (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Lieb-Liniger_model_of_a_Bose_Gas. The articles are almost identical, there were previous copyright issues also related to the images used. The Scholarpedia version is from 2008 and the Wiki article is from 2009. ReyHahn (talk) 12:53, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- It is plausible these sources were written by the same person. MER-C 11:14, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- It would still be self-plagiarism, right?--ReyHahn (talk) 16:46, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Permission plausible. Article relisted. Email sent to copyright holder. – Isochrone (talk) 19:38, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Isochrone; Update on this? I don't see a ticket in VRT. Sennecaster (Chat) 04:32, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Sennecaster I'm quite busy so I can't do a lot here, but it seems that the copyright holder was slightly confused on the copyright status themselves (even though they wrote it). WP:CV#Contributor is copyright holder says that they have the right to republish their own work here, but is very confusingly worded about whether VRT is a requisite. If so, basically everything in the article sans the lead is an issue. – Isochrone (talk) 12:18, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- I do not know where is this inquiry at the moment. I thought the copy-paste was more flagrant and that the content would be rapidly removed from the history of the article. Once that was done I was thinking on rewriting the article.--ReyHahn (talk) 10:15, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
- @ReyHahn Lieb was somewhat vague on the copyright status and so I have opted to remove it. I believe that some of the maths content falls under WP:LIMITED, and whatever you can rewrite would be great. Thanks! – Isochrone (talk) 13:37, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
- @ReyHahn Lieb was somewhat vague on the copyright status and so I have opted to remove it. I believe that some of the maths content falls under WP:LIMITED, and whatever you can rewrite would be great. Thanks! – Isochrone (talk) 13:37, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
- I do not know where is this inquiry at the moment. I thought the copy-paste was more flagrant and that the content would be rapidly removed from the history of the article. Once that was done I was thinking on rewriting the article.--ReyHahn (talk) 10:15, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Sennecaster I'm quite busy so I can't do a lot here, but it seems that the copyright holder was slightly confused on the copyright status themselves (even though they wrote it). WP:CV#Contributor is copyright holder says that they have the right to republish their own work here, but is very confusingly worded about whether VRT is a requisite. If so, basically everything in the article sans the lead is an issue. – Isochrone (talk) 12:18, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Isochrone; Update on this? I don't see a ticket in VRT. Sennecaster (Chat) 04:32, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
Failed to verify copyright status, VRT permission refused. Content removed with no remaining infringement. – Isochrone (talk) 13:39, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
- It is plausible these sources were written by the same person. MER-C 11:14, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- Buckley School (California) (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2019/07/31/buckley-school-whistleblower-stumbled-onto-rick-singers-fake-college-applications-long-before-admissions-scandal/. 50.219.116.154 (talk) 00:28, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 11:03, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- Suspected copyright infringements without a source from March to May 2013
- Basilika (history · last edit · rewrite)
No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. Wizardman 00:09, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
- List of Indian rail incidents (history · last edit · rewrite)
- @Diannaa: Could this have meant the content you removed in February 2015 as part of the CCI? Nobody (talk) 12:14, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Wizardman 00:47, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
- Murder of Nicola Furlong (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Wizardman 01:38, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
- Toma Lá, Dá Cá (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Wizardman 01:28, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
- Chapman's Pool (history · last edit · rewrite)
No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. Wizardman 01:03, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
- Glen Lake Rotary Park (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Wizardman 01:30, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
- La Sape (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Wizardman 23:12, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
- Sigiriya (history · last edit · rewrite)
No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. Wizardman 23:09, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
- Articles with close paraphrasing from June 2019
- Mirzapur (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. – Isochrone (talk) 12:27, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
- New Slaves (history · last edit · rewrite)
No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. – Isochrone (talk) 19:44, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- Horatio Sharpe (history · last edit · rewrite)
No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. – Isochrone (talk) 19:53, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
End. MER-C 18:56, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- List of Debaters radio episodes (history · last edit · rewrite) from Apple Music and CBC website; see individual entries for each individual source. The Apple Music website doesn't seem to have plot descriptions but they do look like copyvio to me. Sorry, this is a big job, as there's hundreds of episodes. I have notified the most recent contributor. — Diannaa (talk) 19:34, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Wizardman 14:05, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
- Oil spill (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296136247_Effects_of_crude_oil_pollution_in_the_tropical_rainforest_biodiversity_of_Ecuadorian_Amazon_Region. Professor Penguino (talk) 05:51, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- Some evidence: the content was added in February 2016. It's basically identical to a sentence in the study.
- Link to problematic revision here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oil_spill&diff=prev&oldid=707600583
- Link to study here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296136247_Effects_of_crude_oil_pollution_in_the_tropical_rainforest_biodiversity_of_Ecuadorian_Amazon_Region
- Cheers, Professor Penguino (talk) 05:56, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. – Isochrone (talk) 16:02, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- Suspected copyright infringements without a source from June to September 2013
- David Livingstone (history · last edit · rewrite)
No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. Checked main book and everything is appropriately quoted – Isochrone (talk) 20:11, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- Social intelligence (history · last edit · rewrite)
No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. Checked a few sources and from those it is very acceptably rephrased – Isochrone (talk) 19:29, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
- Critical Path Institute (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. – Isochrone (talk) 20:31, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- Literary and Debating Society (University of Galway) (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. – Isochrone (talk) 19:38, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
- Ruby McGregor-Smith (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Wizardman 00:59, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
- Neuroimaging intelligence testing (history · last edit · rewrite)
No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. Wizardman 00:57, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
- Johnny Hartman (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Wizardman 23:46, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
- Articles with close paraphrasing from July 2019
- 2019 STP 500 (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nascar-auto-racing/thatsracin/article142292764.html
No copyright concern. Material is PD, license compatible, or ineligible for copyright protection. MER-C 18:21, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
- Susan Domchek (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.facingourrisk.org/about-ust/our-impact/media-center/assets/Spirit-of-Empowerment-2018-Press-Release.pdf
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. – Isochrone (talk) 18:22, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- Omega Seamaster (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://omega.prestige.co.il/Page.aspx?Code=789
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. – Isochrone (talk) 22:25, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- Asoka Weerasinghe (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.nation.lk/2010/12/19/eyefea4.htm
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. – Isochrone (talk) 22:35, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- Copied and pasted articles and sections from September 2019
- Vardhaman College of Engineering (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Pretty sure all infringing content is gone. The4lines |||| (Talk) (Contributions) 18:07, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
- Articles with improper non-free content from October 2019
- Ultra Magnus (history · last edit · rewrite)
No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. It's a really horrible article but I can't find evidence of copyvio. – Isochrone (talk) 22:53, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
End. MER-C 18:39, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- Suspected copyright infringements without a source from October 2013 to May 2014
- Chʼortiʼ language (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. I cleaned what I could find by manually checking most of the prose, but Earwig being out of Google credits makes it difficult. – Isochrone (talk) 22:36, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- Cricket dolls (history · last edit · rewrite)
No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. – Isochrone (talk) 17:00, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- Mih jeans (history · last edit · rewrite)
Already rewritten. No infringing content remains. – Isochrone (talk) 22:53, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- Burzio's generalization (history · last edit · rewrite)
No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. I found some small fragments but the sheer magnitude of this article makes it impossible to find anything definitive. – Isochrone (talk) 17:06, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- Business process automation (history · last edit · rewrite)
No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. – Isochrone (talk) 23:04, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- Consumer Technology Association (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. – Isochrone (talk) 17:15, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. – Isochrone (talk) 16:57, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- Oral History of British Science (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. – Isochrone (talk) 12:13, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
- Aeroflot Flight 99 (history · last edit · rewrite)
Already rewritten. No infringing content remains. – Isochrone (talk) 22:52, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- Nuzha Nuseibeh (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Sennecaster (Chat) 02:08, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
- Jeremy Rifkin (history · last edit · rewrite)
Already rewritten. No infringing content remains. – Isochrone (talk) 08:58, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
- Uskok War (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Removed as unsourced by Isochrone. Sennecaster (Chat) 02:32, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
End. MER-C 18:40, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
- Crusading movement (history · last edit · rewrite) see talk for details. listed by User:Borsoka. Sennecaster (Chat) 20:36, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
- I'm considering this closed. It's being rewritten and there are people familiar in copyright cleanup looking at it. Sennecaster (Chat) 03:59, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
- Belavia Flight 1834 (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://avherald.com/h?article=4020f387/0018. Possible copy-paste violation. Unlikely WP:BACKWARDSCOPY since the Aviation Herald article was last edited in 2009. Aviationwikiflight (talk) 10:37, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
Blanked and relisted. – dudhhr talkcontribssheher 16:33, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
- specifically, I removed the material copied from the Aviation Herald but found foundational copyvio. see 29 april's CP. – dudhhr talkcontribssheher 17:43, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
- Pentathlon (film) (history · last edit · rewrite): Plot summary might be a copy-paste violation from an external website (possibly the movie's official website) given the in-article copyright statement at the very bottom of the section. For reference, the copyright statement was added by an IP account with this edit on February 8, 2024, and it could just mean nothing since the plot summary was for the most part added much earlier. The last stable version of the plot section appears to be the one right before this edit made by another IP in August 2023; so, if there's a problem, maybe it only goes back that far. Anyway, it would be good if someone else could check this out since I'm unable to find any official site for the movie. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:49, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
- Removed to be safe. MER-C 16:52, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- Vicente Albán (history · last edit · rewrite) from Presumptive deletion over copyright concerns, please see: Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Vvven. (Uncited, attempted to find the source for over an hour in both English and Spanish language publications. I didn't know if I was meant to revert to the last clean revision & then add the template, or just add the template) GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 04:33, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 17:12, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- @GreenLipstickLesbian: I think in this case the former. I list presumptive removals here if deletion or stubbing is required. MER-C 17:12, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- Gurbux Singh (Brigadier) (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.hindustantimes.com/chandigarh/withdrawal-from-bomdila/story-G4kWFovdtuoNvYVrAQPn1N.html . Author blocked. MER-C 18:23, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 18:24, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- Angelita C. et al. v. California Department of Pesticide Regulation (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2016/05/16/right_without_a_remedy.pdf. — Diannaa (talk) 00:08, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Sennecaster (Chat) 20:00, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
- Laravel (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://laravel.com/docs/11.x. Very Fantastic Dude (talk) 17:26, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
No copyright concern. Material is PD, license compatible, or ineligible for copyright protection. See here. – Isochrone (talk) 13:09, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
- London Youth Games (history · last edit · rewrite) from [1] BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 20:22, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
Permission plausible. Article relisted. – Isochrone (talk) 20:37, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
Failed to verify copyright status, VRT permission refused. Content removed with no remaining infringement. – Isochrone (talk) 18:10, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- Belavia Flight 1834 (history · last edit · rewrite) from [2]. Foundational. – dudhhr talkcontribssheher 16:34, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 10:58, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hanuman Books (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/sclead/umich-scl-hanuman?view=text. Foundational, source cited in first revision. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:21, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Wizardman 16:58, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
- Louisiana State University (history · last edit · rewrite) from multiple sources, including this, this, this, and this, but it is very likely that there are more, and these issues are longstanding. Have also posted a CCI request. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:04, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
- Columbia University (history · last edit · rewrite) from multiple sources, some outlined in this GAR but it is very likely that there are more, and these issues are longstanding. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:22, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
- Triumphal arches for the arrival of Isabel II to Seville (history · last edit · rewrite) Old Vvven creation I haven't been able to find a source for GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 04:17, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 16:37, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Roman bridge of Ávila (history · last edit · rewrite) Another old Vvven creation that doesn't appear to be a translation of the esWiki article. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 04:22, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 16:37, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Party for Freedom (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/amerikaanse-suikeroom-geert-wilders . As the source is paywalled, I can't prove this section has been copied. However, this contributor has inserted copyrighted texts into numerous other articles GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 02:17, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. Sennecaster (Chat) 02:43, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
- Yandex (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/nederlandse-yandex-dochter-levert-rusland-surveillance-software . Same as above, though this time I can show the first few lines appear in this source: https://www.ftm.nl/tag/toloka-ai , which the website likely re-uses throughout their own content. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 02:17, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Sennecaster (Chat) 02:48, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
- Draft:Islam and Arabic language (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://archive.org/stream/WorldReligionsAndIslam.ACriticalStudyVol.1ByHamidNaseemRafiabadi/World%20Religions%20and%20Islam.%20A%20Critical%20Study%20%2C%20vol.1%20by%20Hamid%20Naseem%20Rafiabadi_djvu.txt. — Diannaa (talk) 13:50, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
- The book is not directly copied here but rather than summarized. 202.134.9.136 (talk) 15:18, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted for a reason other than copyright concerns. MER-C 15:35, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- Phoenician settlement of North Africa (history · last edit · rewrite) from {{{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Phoenician_settlement_of_North_Africa}}} I've added examples of the extensive copying of tesxt from soureces with the lightest of edits to the talk page. 2001:8F8:1B69:1AFD:30A9:6768:87CA:4A82 (talk) 08:52, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- There's not enough to justify the tag, and User:Skitash made changes to the article. I removed the tag. I hope you don't add it back. Also as I noted on the RPP, further investigation into your claim is welcome. Until you can prove extensive copy/paste that justifies the tag please don't add it back. el.ziade (talkallam) 18:13, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- Also, based on the examples provided on the talk page (all of which have been addressed by Skitash), it seems that the copied passages are short and have been cited. Since the copied material is properly attributed and linked to its original sources, it does not constitute a copyright violation. I do not think it's justified to tag the article with a copyvio. el.ziade (talkallam) 18:25, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- On top of that, copyvio tool indicates that there's a less than 5% similarity and I've already changed and reworded content the IP hopper showed concern about, so their argument lacks merit. They are either deliberately pretending to not see it or refusing to acknowledge it by continuing to edit war. It's perplexing that they opted for a full copyright investigation over a few similar-sounding sentences rather than trying to improve the article. My best guess is that this is just another petty excuse the IP hopper is using to continue harassing me as they have done on my talk page.[3][4] Skitash (talk) 11:06, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- All that proves is that copyvio tool is pretty useless. 2001:8F8:1DDA:A9B6:17CC:E045:8086:7B37 (talk) 11:27, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- On top of that, copyvio tool indicates that there's a less than 5% similarity and I've already changed and reworded content the IP hopper showed concern about, so their argument lacks merit. They are either deliberately pretending to not see it or refusing to acknowledge it by continuing to edit war. It's perplexing that they opted for a full copyright investigation over a few similar-sounding sentences rather than trying to improve the article. My best guess is that this is just another petty excuse the IP hopper is using to continue harassing me as they have done on my talk page.[3][4] Skitash (talk) 11:06, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- Also, based on the examples provided on the talk page (all of which have been addressed by Skitash), it seems that the copied passages are short and have been cited. Since the copied material is properly attributed and linked to its original sources, it does not constitute a copyright violation. I do not think it's justified to tag the article with a copyvio. el.ziade (talkallam) 18:25, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 07:01, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
- There's not enough to justify the tag, and User:Skitash made changes to the article. I removed the tag. I hope you don't add it back. Also as I noted on the RPP, further investigation into your claim is welcome. Until you can prove extensive copy/paste that justifies the tag please don't add it back. el.ziade (talkallam) 18:13, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- Ghulam Hassan Sofi (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20120324054246/http://www.groundreport.com/Arts_and_Culture/Melody-king-of-Kashmir-Ghulam-Hassan-Sofi-remember_2/2911690. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:26, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
- Tagged for SD. If you reply here, please ping me. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 17:57, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
No copyright concern. Material is PD, license compatible, or ineligible for copyright protection. MER-C 11:02, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
- Teaneck, New Jersey (history · last edit · rewrite) from here Nikkimaria (talk) 18:28, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Sennecaster (Chat) 00:24, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
- Lance Bruner (history · last edit · rewrite) (Apologies for this unskilled messy entry, based only on some manual searching for phrases.) The article seems to be copied from a CC-BY-SA fandom.com article created the day before[5], with very light paraphrasing and without attribution. The fandom.com article may be copied from a gamespot.com one[6] - I can't see which is first - and ours might have been. The two sentences that make the second paragraph of our article are very lightly paraphrased from a 2022 cbr.com article.[7] I don't know if some sort of retro-attribution to fandom.com would be proper, or if the whole article should go as plagiarising that and/or gamespot.com - if that's the original. The only citations are to one issue of a comic. NebY (talk) 22:59, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. By Justlettersandnumbers. Sennecaster (Chat) 00:13, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
- Draft:Coral reef preservation (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.mona.uwi.edu/cms/ https://www.reefinstitute.org/ https://mote.org/research/program/coral-reef-restoration https://www.jcu.edu.au/this-is-uni/natural-and-built-environments/articles/helping-corals-survive https://hcas.nova.edu/research-achievements/coral-climate-research.html https://www.divessi.com/en/get-certified/environment/blue-oceans https://marine.uq.edu.au/research/theme/coral-reefs https://rescueareef.earth.miami.edu/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2291018/#:~:text=Sunscreens%20cause%20the%20rapid%20and,symbiotic%20zooxanthellae%20with%20latent%20infections. Foundational; some but not all has been removed. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:21, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- It's a draft and very foundational; do you think it's eligible for G12 @Justlettersandnumbers? – Isochrone (talk) 23:19, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- Isochrone, it's been listed here for (much) longer than seven days with no rewrite proposed; deleted as G6. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 06:23, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- It's a draft and very foundational; do you think it's eligible for G12 @Justlettersandnumbers? – Isochrone (talk) 23:19, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- Draft:Francesco Sapori (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://library.syracuse.edu/digital/guides/print/sapori_f_prt.htm. Relisted from 1 May, as I'd specified the wrong url, mea culpa. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:13, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Didn't end up being too much so no revdel request. Sennecaster (Chat) 00:32, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
List of songs recorded by Kendrick Lamar (history · last edit · rewrite) from Scribd and DocDroid
- Multiple entries on this iist sourced to copyrighted Digital Booklets uploaded to Scribd and DocDroid. Their self-publishing platforms violate copyrights, so linking to them from Wikipedia would also violate the WP:COPYVIOEL guideline and the WP:COPYVIO policy. Removing the URLs from the citations is easy enough, but unsure about rev/del since they have apparently been in the article since 2017 Isaidnoway (talk) 20:59, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
Issue resolved. @Isaidnoway, WP:COPYLINK isn't something normally revdelled for. Apologies for the late response. Sennecaster (Chat) 05:18, 17 July 2024 (UTC) Sennecaster (Chat) 05:18, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
- Derrick Bell (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.thehistorymakers.org/sites/default/files/A2004_242_EAD.pdf. — Diannaa (talk) 20:23, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. — Diannaa (talk) 21:28, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- List of Awkward episodes (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/awkward-old-jenna-180300451.html. Dialmayo 16:17, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Wizardman 00:27, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- Forces of Freedom and Change (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://sudantribune.com/article282981. There are a few word changes, but it's clearly a copy/paste with just minor changes - not a summary of key points. The infringing edit is this one. Boud (talk) 19:40, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 18:37, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
- Draft:Titles (history · last edit · rewrite) from [8]. Flagged by copypatrol, see [9]. Source link is dead, with no archive available on archive.org. See iThenticate report for source text. Sending to CP since I'm not familiar with Korean ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 01:57, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
Issue resolved. It was a copy of an unattributed koWiki translation of European wars of religion, backwards copied by Google. WP:RIA completed. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 03:53, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
- Economy of Tamil Nadu (history · last edit · rewrite) from 1. A. K, M. V. The Dravidian Model: Interpreting the Political Economy of Tamil Nadu. Cambridge University Press; 2021.
- Accessible via TWL: https://www-cambridge-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/core/books/the-dravidian-model/48F62283E95BC93C03EE0498EA9DA6A2. Recent addition seems to be nearly entirely copied/closely paraphrased from this book. Initially flagged by copypatrol, see [10] ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 02:53, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
Revision deletion completed. MER-C 19:06, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned, revision deletion requested. Sennecaster (Chat) 02:22, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
- User:Karoosa/sandbox (history · last edit · rewrite) I'm pretty sure this is copied from another wiki, but I found no attribution and don't know from which one. Nobody (talk) 07:53, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted for a reason other than copyright concerns. MER-C 16:27, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
- Man on the Hill (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/g2008n2a2.pdf. Beginning of "Locality and Age" section copied. mwwv converse∫edits 12:07, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted for a reason other than copyright concerns. MER-C 11:03, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- Nordweststadt (Karlsruhe) (history · last edit · rewrite) So, our new page appears to be translated from the German article de:Nordweststadt (Karlsruhe), which is simple enough to deal with, but (in what I'm like, 90% sure is a BACKWARDSCOPY) that German article closely matches part of some random locksmith's website [11]. My German is truly atrocious though, so I was hoping someone else could verify that. Alpha3031 (t • c) 15:00, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
Backwardscopy. Tag placed at talk page. – dudhhr talkcontribssheher 21:42, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
- Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2002 (history · last edit · rewrite) from here. I did some work on January and February but there's too many other reports at CopyPatrol for me to carry on to the end of the article at this time. — Diannaa (talk) 22:14, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Sennecaster (Chat) 02:39, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
- Elez Isufi (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from CheddarB23. confirmed copyvio from this book, and I believe the other books were likely copied from as well GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 22:30, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 11:04, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- Full arch restoration (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://uniqa.dental/articles/full-arch-dental-implants-protocols-and-techniques. Alpha3031 (t • c) 15:29, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
- This is likely spam, and I wouldn't be surprised if it weren't from Wikibusines. MER-C 17:18, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned, revision deletion requested. Sennecaster (Chat) 02:29, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
Revision deletion completed. MER-C 19:03, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
- Induced stem cells (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from 20240516. Nearly all material has been added by 20240516, and they were the creator. Article cites over 300 sources, incl, paywalled, and they regularly copied from news reports they didn't cite, cited material to the wrong source, and just made stuff up. Sorry for turning it over here, but this thing just needs stubbed or deleted. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 20:13, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 11:08, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- Draft:Alan Pemberton (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/alan-pemberton. — Diannaa (talk) 20:20, 23 May 2024 (UTC) Adding: Everipedia is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License so I have added attribution for that. But the editor states that some material was copied from from these two pages: https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2022.10.31.php and https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2020.01.07.php. These are not compatibly licensed. — Diannaa (talk) 12:37, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
- Draft:Explanatory Memorandum of the Muslim Brotherhood (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/an-explanatory-memorandum-from-the-archives-of-the-muslim-brotherhood-in-america/. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 01:50, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
- There are two main element to this article. The first is the contents of the memorandum itself. The second is how the memorandum was discovered and brought to the attention of the public. The memorandum was pubished by the Center for Security Policy and made commercially available to the public on Amazon. It is my understanding that, if nothing else, this places the memorandum in the pubic domain. Secondly, the memorandum was made public by the FBI in 2007 as an exhibit to the court during a trial against the Holy Land Foundation, a Muslim charity indicted in 2007 on charges of serving as a fund-raising front on behalf of Hamas, designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. in 1997. The story of how the memorandum was discovered has been covered by various respected new organizations including the New York Times and NBC. Given this information, I hope you will remove the block on my article. Thank you. Resignation793 (talk) 14:03, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Sennecaster (Chat) 06:21, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- Eureka (company) (history · last edit · rewrite) largly copied from https://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREADM.cgi?44152_9 . Gottagotospace (talk) 16:21, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 16:44, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- Devapāla's Campaigns against Pratiharas (history · last edit · rewrite) from [12], [13], [14]. Lots of close paraphrasing, foundational. In particular, the lede is just a paragraph from the first source but with the word order slightly changed. (Article is also at AFD) GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 22:51, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted for a reason other than copyright concerns. MER-C 19:06, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
- Rexhep Voka (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Tetovario. Most content cited to inaccessible book sources. No other significant contributors. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 04:28, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 16:44, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
- Mujdin Aliu (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Tetovario. No other significant contributors, one source heavily cited is permanently dead and the other is an uncaptioned Youtube video in Albanian. (Tetovario has, on at least one other occasion, typed out the audio of a Youtube video) GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 04:38, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 16:44, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
- Josif Bageri (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Tetovario. Most content is cited to "A Biographical Dictionary of Albanian History", which is not available online. There's about a paragraph written by other users, half of which is unsourced. Foundational. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 05:10, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 16:44, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
- G. R. Anil (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://cdrc.kerala.gov.in/members/minister. Pachu Kannan (talk) 09:14, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Sennecaster (Chat) 06:19, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- The Philadelphia Award (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.philadelphiaaward.org/about/. Lindsey40186 (talk) 18:05, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 10:58, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Weston Imer (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from GoldenBootWizard276. ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 20:25, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 18:19, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
- Carrigdhoun GAA (history · last edit · rewrite) from [15]. Possible backwards copy. Archive.org doesn't stretch that far back, and we had majority of the text in 2008/2009, years before their website was first registered in 2014 (per ICANN lookup) ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 20:50, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Backwardscopy. Tag placed at talk page. Sennecaster (Chat) 05:21, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
- Marta Orriols (history · last edit · rewrite) from [16]. Given the info at es:Usuario:Kippelboy, there might be a VRT ticket for this. (Website's own legal page isn't as clear on the issue as I'm comfortable with). GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 08:09, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned, revision deletion requested. @GreenLipstickLesbian: Looks like it was taken from Orriols's website, and I can't find a ticket because of the formatting. Calling this as some form of all rights reserved because of that. Sennecaster (Chat) 05:00, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
Revision deletion completed. MER-C 18:26, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
- Draft:Qefweqf (history · last edit · [[Talk:Draft:Qefweqf/Temp|rewrite]]) from [17]. I wasn't able to find their licence. Both articles are clearly promotional. I see I've broken the syntax somehow, sorry. Why isn't there a template? Doug Weller talk 09:58, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted for a reason other than copyright concerns. MER-C 18:22, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
- Fuad Dibra (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Tetovario. Book sources, Tetovario is the only signifigant contributor GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 05:36, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 18:39, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
- Stone Deep (history · last edit · rewrite) contains excessive WP:COPYLINK violations in cited Facebook posts, which should be converted to {{cite news}} templates either without URLs or with legitimate online publishers (such as Newspapers.com) . Yes this is an unusual report, but the alternative would be keeping a page with over a dozen {{copyvio link}} tags. Could be resolved quickly; I'll try to work on it. Mach61 17:07, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- Chemoimmunotherapy (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://aacrjournals.org/cancerres/article/68/21/8643/541799/A-History-of-Cancer-Chemotherapy & https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3608094/. Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 20:31, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
Fixed Boghog (talk) 07:46, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
- World Environment Day (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.health.gov.bb/event/86. JLCop (talk) 09:36, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
Backwardscopy. Tag placed at talk page. Sennecaster (Chat) 00:27, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
- Maram (drum) (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. No other major contributors, one offline source GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 02:27, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Salsa roja (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. No other significant contributors, book sources GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 02:42, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Huevos a la mexicana (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. Subject not in book listed, no other significant contributors GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 03:01, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Jhallari (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. Cited to a biography that doesn't mention half the cited facts. Given the pre-established pattern of falsifying sources and the lack of any other significant contributors, I am flagging this for presumptive deletion GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 03:06, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Geger (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. No other significant contributors, book source GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 03:18, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Corrido (Spain) (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. Book sources, no other significant contributors GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 03:24, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Pastel azteca (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. Book citation, approx 60% authorship (but the other half is unsourced) GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 03:32, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Ekkalam (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. No other significant contributors, book source GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 03:37, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test Controversy (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.news9live.com/education-career/entrance-exams/explained-know-about-neet-cheating-scam-unearthed-at-gujarat-bihar-2533903. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 10:47, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Curb Safe Charmer: Believe I tidied this up by chance before the tag, and it just needs a revdel considered? Mdann52 (talk) 13:50, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Timeline of the flag of Australia (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.anfa-national.org.au/history-of-our-flag/. — Diannaa (talk) 13:23, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- I'm sorry about this. I must admit that I did use that website as a source. But I thought I paraphrased it all pretty well. Robbiegibbons (talk) 02:28, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- Why don't I go ahead and reinstate the text and cite additional sources? Robbiegibbons (talk) 03:30, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Robbiegibbons: The content that matches the source website needs to be removed or re-worded. Adding additional sources won't help. — Diannaa (talk) 21:33, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned, revision deletion requested. Sennecaster (Chat) 01:09, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
Revision deletion completed. MER-C 16:04, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
- Paul Wong (artist) (history · last edit · rewrite) from [18]. Partially written by COI editor. ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 02:41, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
- from https://www.invaluable.com/artist/wong-paul-c-q0798yizp4/#ARTIST_DETAIL_INFO. 2604:3D08:8B7D:E660:0:0:0:C9F6 (talk) 18:41, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. – Isochrone (talk) 12:45, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
Libyan genocide (history · last edit · rewrite) from "Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History" by Ali Abdullatif Ahmida (Routledge, 2021) [19]
Sections with issues are as follows:
Lead, paragraph 3: almost entirely verbatim from p.3 and p. 62
Lead, paragraph 4: Sentence 4 ("The history that Libyans recorded...") from preface
Lead, paragraph 4: Sentence 5 ( "As a result, Italian colonization and atrocities...") from p. 29
The issues above have been present since the very first version of the article, created on 10 December 2023 by Skitash (talk · contribs). Diff: [20]
Next is the "Etymology" section, which was added by the same user on 11 December 2023, much of which is a very close paraphrase of p. 98. Diff: [21]
Previously, Skitash had to reword the "Links to the Holocaust" section as it was a close paraphrase of the cited Middle East Eye article: [22], which they had added on 11 December 2023 [23] in the same edit as the above "Etymology" section edit. They have also been warned on 18 June 2023 [24] and on 2 December 2023 [25] for copyright violations on other articles.
The second user who has seemingly added copyright violating content is Mohammed Al-Keesh (talk · contribs), on 20 March 2024 [26] [27].
In the "Death Camps" section, the entire third paragraph ("Braiga concentration camp...") and most of the sixth ("Magrun camp interned...") is a direct copy from p. 42, p. 46, and p. 92. The first sentence of the first paragraph ("The colonial state spent...") is plagiarised from p. 60. There's also some copying of shorter phrases in the first, fourth, fifth, and seventh paragraphs.
He added the entire unsourced "Death Marches" section in the same edit, where most of the first sentence of the second paragraph ("One of the most documented is...") is copied from p. 62. The image included and uploaded by the user is also copied from the same text, p. 66, as evidenced by the figure caption included in the image.
Additionally, in the "Genocide" section, the fourth paragraph ("The intentional killing of cattle...") is entirely copied from p. 85, except for the first sentence.
In total, I count that around 400 words of the ~2.2k word article is blatant copying or close paraphrasing. I have removed the offending content in this edit [28] Meluiel (talk) 17:25, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Meluiel; is the initial copyvio removed? I'll mark the listing as complete so we know that there isn't an outstanding issue with content, just rewriting to be done. Sennecaster (Chat) 00:33, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Sennecaster I've removed all the known copyvio, yes. Meluiel (talk) 15:43, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
- Okay, thank you. This isn't the first listing involving Skitash this year. Sennecaster (Chat) 18:22, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
- Frustrating. I'm not sure what the procedure is with regards to user warnings, as this is my first report—I didn't add any to either offending party's talk pages when I made this listing. Am I able to leave that to you or another knowledgeable person who sees this? Meluiel (talk) 09:31, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
- Okay, thank you. This isn't the first listing involving Skitash this year. Sennecaster (Chat) 18:22, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Sennecaster I've removed all the known copyvio, yes. Meluiel (talk) 15:43, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Reticular formation (history · last edit · *rewrite) from Saladin 2011 page 410. Iztwoz (talk) 09:57, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
- Santhi Soundarajan (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&title=Santhi+Soundarajan&oldid=&action=search&use_engine=0&use_links=1&turnitin=0. Pallikari (talk) 17:44, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
- Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.lexikon-provenienzforschung.org/en/bloch-bauer-ferdinand. — Diannaa (talk) 15:33, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. — Diannaa (talk) 18:44, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
- Kerala State Water Transport Department (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.swtd.kerala.gov.in/pages-en-IN/aboutdept.php. The bulk looks to have been added in Special:Diff/517144446. I'm not sure if the History section is copied from another source or not. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 17:47, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
- Kashmir Black Day (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.dawn.com/news/1717262. Mrfoogles (talk) 16:04, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. — Callitropsis🌲[talk · contribs] 03:13, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
- Christopher Harder (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/top-lawyer-escapes-conviction-over-courtroom-scuffle/62RQAAI6OF5A3KQAAHUXU6RCYA/. Complex copyvio from 2021 IP. Lots of additions afterwards. ⸺(Random)staplers 01:40, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
- Victor Yannacone (history · last edit · rewrite) Found more vio after the last warning. Unfortunately, new edits have added offline sources. The4lines |||| (Talk) (Contributions) 02:41, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
- 1995 Kuratong Baleleng rubout (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2002/02/20/151281/kuratong-baleleng-massacre-revisited. — Diannaa (talk) 12:52, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Also, it's been moved to draftspace. Draft:1995 Kuratong Baleleng rubout — Diannaa (talk) 01:34, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
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