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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Moneytrees (talk | contribs) at 22:34, 18 May 2020 (→‎Progress: collapsing, only really updating for myself now). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

This is a Contributor copyright investigations cleanup effort of Dr. Blofeld's contributions. Blofeld's 606,405 edits are appreciated, but he was discovered to have copied content in his early editing days, in what was likely a common misunderstanding of copyright law. A CCI, Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Dr. Blofeld, was reluctantly opened and filled out (only to a certain date), generating the largest CCI ever, with a staggering 66 subpages. Fortunately, at very most, potentially only about 5% of these edits are copyright violations, and the mass, mass majority of edits are non-copyrightable prose, meaning that those who don't know much about copyright can help out.

Why money, why?

If this CCI was way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way smaller, Me, MER-C, and Wizardman could easily finish it. Unfortunately, due to its size, that is not practical, and with only the 3 of us working on it will likely take over 2 years. Even then, due to the awful backlog at CCI, it's bad to let a massive investigation filled with trivial diffs sit around, as I learned the hard way. This may suck, but its the only efficient way to get things done. Leaving the CCI around will only cause suffering for future generations of wikipedians.

How to identify "Basic Prose"

Helping is pretty easy and required no real knowledge of copyright at all. The mass majority of edits listed at the CCI are stuff like this, a simple geostub with no copyrightable material inserted. For reference, the following edits cannot be copyright violations:

  • [1] A simple list, just names
  • [2] "X is a town in Y. Census said it has Z amount of people"
  • [3] Basic information about a town, (It has a library, first mentioned in x year, geographical stats)
  • [4] "Y was a X movie made in Z and stars Q, S, and D"
  • [5] "X was a politician who served as Y and succeeded by Z in Q"
  • [6] Infobox insertion

Most articles listed are like this. I do not recommend presumptive deletions/removals, as DrB can be contacted and enough people are monitoring this page to be able to help with finding obscure sources.

Steps on finding basic prose

  • 1. Find a section of a subpage and start editing it.
  • 2. Before doing anything, Click on show preview.
  • 3. Click on the diffs, opening them in a new tab. Review the content added in the diffs.
  • 4. If the content is like the above diffs, then paste {{n}} Basic prose --~~~~ next to the diff. If it is not, then leave the diff alone; the people who are in the know will deal with it.
  • 5. If you aren't sure if the edit is basic prose or not, just bring it up on the talk page here.
  • 6. If you finish a section, insert {{collapse top|Clear ~~~~}} directly below the header, and {{collapse bottom}} directly below the last diff. Don't do this if you have any diffs you left alone.

Steps on finding copyvios

  • NOTE: Earwig does not work on books or journals, so if they are cited, leave the listing alone, unless you have access to them. Earwig also cannot translate non english sources into english, so you will have to manually compare non-english sources with the articles.
  • 1. Before running earwig, fix all dead links in the article. Make sure you check the box to link archives for all links, as the bot doesn't always detect dead links using the default option.
  • 2. On an article that has a long history and many edits from many different users, you may not even need to run a check. Instead, take the diff link and paste it into the "URL comparison" box and run the comparison on the article on the listing. Look at the text highlighted, which will show whether or not if it is still in the article.
  • 2.1 If it is still in the article, then compare the source cited in the edit to the article using the above process. If there is no source, then look through the next few edits in the page's history to determine when a ref was inserted. If the ref is dead, archive it in the current version using the fix dead links option. If it is not, manually archive it.
  • 2.2 If it is no longer in the article, then mark the listing with {{?}}Rewritten/removed since --~~~~ Make sure it wasn't moved to a different article.
  • 3. Enter the article in and run the scan. Alternatively, just compare the sources cited in the edit with the edit id, as long as the source is not dead. I strongly encourage looking at the sources cited in the initial edits, as they may no longer be in the article, and earwig only does a limited web search, making it unlikely to find them.
  • 4. View the results. Ignore the percentage, go off of highlighted text. At least check everything above ten percent.
  • 5. If you find no violation, write {{n}} Checked --~~~~
  • 6. If you do find (a) violation(s), remove it. Depending on how large it is, (If you are a non-admin) mark the article for a revdel; I highly recommend you install User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel for this.
  • 7. Keep an eye out for sources in the Public Domain or under free license; Some of them are attributed properly, some are not. They tend to be US government sources/very old (pre 1923) books. See the bottom of my user page for a chart showing the compatible licenses.
  • 7.1. If it is unattributed, add the {{PD-notice}} do what I do here
  • 8. For half attributed interwiki translations, add the article is was translated from to the talk page, like I do here.

Members

If you intend on joining the effort, sign below. Thank you very much for volunteering. Note that you are free to edit the subpages without signing down here. For any suggestions/ questions, bring it up at the talk page. (sign like # ~~~~)

  1. 💴Money💶💵emoji💷Talk💸Help out at CCI! 02:05, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Clovermoss (talk) 04:04, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  3. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 05:07, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Gricehead (talk) 09:40, 15 January 2020 (UTC) (Never done this before, so I'll try to be very careful)[reply]
  5. Nosebagbear (talk) 10:06, 15 January 2020 (UTC) (Also new to CCI cleanup - my previous copyvio work is considering individual drafts, will tread lightly)[reply]
  6. Zera/talk 16:36, 15 January 2020 (UTC) (New to CCI, so I'll be using kid gloves for this)[reply]
  7. Pichpich (talk) 20:25, 15 January 2020 (UTC) Reminds me of the epic Darius Dhlomo cleanup. Will try to tackle a few.[reply]
  8. Wizardman 02:40, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  9. --DannyS712 (talk) 03:16, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Hut 8.5 07:36, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  11. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 13:40, 16 January 2020 (UTC) (Oh what the hell, I kind of like mindless scut work)[reply]
  12. — Wug·a·po·des​ 06:28, 18 January 2020 (UTC) A good old-fashioned BarnRaising[reply]
  13. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 04:22, 19 January 2020 (UTC) (Sure, why not.)[reply]
  14. S Philbrick(Talk) 14:08, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  15. —The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 15:51, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Tamwin (talk) 18:53, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Mdaniels5757 (talk) 03:05, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  18. AmericanAir88(talk) 18:34, 14 February 2020 (UTC) I enjoy this Wiki work.[reply]
  19. TK421bsod | talk | my contributions 18:42, 14 February 2020 (UTC) (I've never done this before, so I'll be careful)[reply]
  20. Signed,The4lines |||| (You Asked?) (What I have Done.) 17:07, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Subpages


Progress

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Progress chart (See User:Amalthea/CCI/Overview)
Date
  • Articles
  • remaining
  • Change since
  • previous day
  • Change since
  • beginning
15 January 2020 24,563 — —
16 January 2020 22,740 Positive decrease 1823 Positive decrease 1823
17 January 2020 21,161 Positive decrease 1579 Positive decrease 3402
18 January 2020 20,607 Positive decrease 554 Positive decrease 3956
19 January 2020 20,109 Positive decrease 498 Positive decrease 4454
20 January 2020 19,669 Positive decrease 440 Positive decrease 4894
21 January 2020 19,365 Positive decrease 304 Positive decrease 5198
22 January 2020 18,823 Positive decrease 542 Positive decrease 5740
23 January 2020 18,370 Positive decrease 453 Positive decrease 6193
24 January 2020 17,363 Positive decrease 1007 Positive decrease 7200
25 January 2020 16,414 Positive decrease 949 Positive decrease 8149
26 January 2020 16,067 Positive decrease 347 Positive decrease 8496
27 January 2020 15,476 Positive decrease 591 Positive decrease 9087
28 January 2020 15,259 Positive decrease 217 Positive decrease 9304
30 January 2020 14,156 Positive decrease 1103 Positive decrease 10407
31 January 2020 14,134 Positive decrease 22 Positive decrease 10429
1 February 2020 13,984 Positive decrease 150 Positive decrease 10579
3 February 2020 12,917 Positive decrease 1067 Positive decrease 11646
4 February 2020 12,600 Positive decrease 317 Positive decrease 11963
5 February 2020 12,508 Positive decrease 92 Positive decrease 12055
7 February 2020 12,411 Positive decrease 97 Positive decrease 12152
8 February 2020 12,268 Positive decrease 143 Positive decrease 12295
9 February 2020 12,110 Positive decrease 158 Positive decrease 12453
10 February 2020 11,956 Positive decrease 154 Positive decrease 12607
11 February 2020 11,882 Positive decrease 74 Positive decrease 12681
12 February 2020 11,076 Positive decrease 806 Positive decrease 13487
13 February 2020 10,460 Positive decrease 616 Positive decrease 14103
14 February 2020 10,284 Positive decrease 176 Positive decrease 14279
15 February 2020 10,175 Positive decrease 109 Positive decrease 14388
16 February 2020 9,918 Positive decrease 257 Positive decrease 14645
17 February 2020 9,799 Positive decrease 119 Positive decrease 14764
18 February 2020 9,506 Positive decrease 293 Positive decrease 15057
19 February 2020 9,148 Positive decrease 358 Positive decrease 15415
20 February 2020 8,652 Positive decrease 496 Positive decrease 15911
21 February 2020 8,442 Positive decrease 210 Positive decrease 16121
22 February 2020 8,099 Positive decrease 343 Positive decrease 16464
23 February 2020 7,908 Positive decrease 191 Positive decrease 16655
24 February 2020 7,873 Positive decrease 35 Positive decrease 16690
25 February 2020 7,540 Positive decrease 333 Positive decrease 17023
26 February 2020 7,365 Positive decrease 175 Positive decrease 17198
27 February 2020 6,957 Positive decrease 408 Positive decrease 17606
28 February 2020 6,751 Positive decrease 206 Positive decrease 17812
29 February 2020 6,407 Positive decrease 344 Positive decrease 18156
1 March 2020 6,369 Positive decrease 38 Positive decrease 18194
3 March 2020 5,878 Positive decrease 491 Positive decrease 18685
4 March 2020 5,660 Positive decrease 218 Positive decrease 18903
5 March 2020 5,452 Positive decrease 208 Positive decrease 19111
6 March 2020 5,295 Positive decrease 157 Positive decrease 19268
7 March 2020 5,242 Positive decrease 53 Positive decrease 19321
8 March 2020 5,227 Positive decrease 15 Positive decrease 19336
9 March 2020 5,096 Positive decrease 131 Positive decrease 19467
10 March 2020 5,082 Positive decrease 14 Positive decrease 19481
11 March 2020 4,864 Positive decrease 218 Positive decrease 19699
12 March 2020 4,753 Positive decrease 111 Positive decrease 19810
13 March 2020 4,259 Positive decrease 494 Positive decrease 20304
14 March 2020 4,064 Positive decrease 195 Positive decrease 20499
15 March 2020 3,879 Positive decrease 185 Positive decrease 20684
16 March 2020 3,516 Positive decrease 363 Positive decrease 21047
17 March 2020 3,273 Positive decrease 243 Positive decrease 21290
18 March 2020 3,125 Positive decrease 148 Positive decrease 21438
19 March 2020 2,984 Positive decrease 141 Positive decrease 21579
20 March 2020 2,785 Positive decrease 199 Positive decrease 21778
21 March 2020 2,734 Positive decrease 51 Positive decrease 21829
22 March 2020 2,603 Positive decrease 131 Positive decrease 21960
23 March 2020 2,471 Positive decrease 132 Positive decrease 22092
24 March 2020 2,419 Positive decrease 52 Positive decrease 22144
25 March 2020 2,353 Positive decrease 66 Positive decrease 22210
26 March 2020 2,313 Positive decrease 40 Positive decrease 22250
28 March 2020 2,190 Positive decrease 123 Positive decrease 22373
29 March 2020 2,143 Positive decrease 47 Positive decrease 22420
30 March 2020 2,124 Positive decrease 19 Positive decrease 22439
31 March 2020 2,085 Positive decrease 39 Positive decrease 22478
1 April 2020 2,054 Positive decrease 31 Positive decrease 22509
2 April 2020 1,974 Positive decrease 80 Positive decrease 22589
3 April 2020 1,881 Positive decrease 93 Positive decrease 22682
4 April 2020 1,858 Positive decrease 23 Positive decrease 22705
5 April 2020 1,831 Positive decrease 27 Positive decrease 22732
6 April 2020 1,772 Positive decrease 59 Positive decrease 22791
7 April 2020 1,738 Positive decrease 34 Positive decrease 22825
8 April 2020 1,724 Positive decrease 14 Positive decrease 22839
10 April 2020 1,685 Positive decrease 39 Positive decrease 22878
11 April 2020 1,671 Positive decrease 14 Positive decrease 22892
12 April 2020 1,614 Positive decrease 57 Positive decrease 22949
13 April 2020 1,580 Positive decrease 34 Positive decrease 22983
14 April 2020 1,548 Positive decrease 32 Positive decrease 23015
15 April 2020 1,524 Positive decrease 24 Positive decrease 23039
16 April 2020 1,504 Positive decrease 20 Positive decrease 23059
17 April 2020 1,477 Positive decrease 27 Positive decrease 23086
18 April 2020 1,471 Positive decrease  6 Positive decrease 23092
19 April 2020 1,453 Positive decrease 18 Positive decrease 23110
20 April 2020 1,440 Positive decrease 13 Positive decrease 23123
21 April 2020 1,426 Positive decrease 14 Positive decrease 23137
22 April 2020 1,402 Positive decrease 24 Positive decrease 23161
23 April 2020 1,397 Positive decrease  5 Positive decrease 23166
24 April 2020 1,385 Positive decrease 12 Positive decrease 23178
25 April 2020 1,363 Positive decrease 22 Positive decrease 23200
26 April 2020 1,326 Positive decrease 37 Positive decrease 23237
27 April 2020 1,294 Positive decrease 32 Positive decrease 23269
28 April 2020 1,259 Positive decrease 35 Positive decrease 23304
29 April 2020 1,219 Positive decrease 40 Positive decrease 23344
30 April 2020 1,197 Positive decrease 22 Positive decrease 23366
1 May 2020 1,176 Positive decrease 21 Positive decrease 23387
2 May 2020 1,129 Positive decrease 47 Positive decrease 23434
3 May 2020 1,097 Positive decrease 32 Positive decrease 23466
4 May 2020 1,060 Positive decrease 37 Positive decrease 23503
5 May 2020 1,029 Positive decrease 31 Positive decrease 23534
6 May 2020 989 Positive decrease 40 Positive decrease 23574
7 May 2020 961 Positive decrease 28 Positive decrease 23602
8 May 2020 933 Positive decrease 28 Positive decrease 23630
9 May 2020 896 Positive decrease 37 Positive decrease 23667
10 May 2020 856 Positive decrease 40 Positive decrease 23707

Want more? Something different?

The Dutchy85 CCI is our second largest open investigation at 14 subpages and probably the second largest ever. It was populated on the same day as the Dr. Blofeld CCI. There's a couple of thousand trivial edits in the three subpages below. Many of these are additions of a sentence or two with references.

Also opened on Boxing Day was a CCI for Kailash29792, a FAC writer who I caught inexplicably caught copying plot summaries from IMDB. This page should also be easy.

This is an old CCI with a few hundred politician stubs that can be cleared out.

Another old CCI with many trivial town and castle-based edits:

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