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    This page is for listing and discussing possible copyright problems involving text on Wikipedia. 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, rewrite infringing content, or request copyright permission.

    Listed pages appear in the bottom section of the page. For additional guidance, see below.

    To add a new listing, go to today's section.

    Copyright owners: If you believe Wikipedia is infringing your copyright, you may request immediate removal by following these instructions.

    How to list an article

    Copyright problems handles articles where the copyright status is disputed or complex cases of infringement. You should list an article if one of the following applies:

    • All revisions of an article have copyright violations (copyvio), and speedy deletion does not apply.
    • The removal of copyrighted content has been contested.
    • Removal or reversion is complicated or involves a majority of the article.
    • You cannot determine whether the text originated from the source or Wikipedia. Do not blank the article in this case.
    • The article is eligible for presumptive deletion.
    • Other complex situations not listed here or in the section below.

    If the article needs to be listed,

    1. Place one of the following above the infringing text:
    2. Place {{subst:Copyvio/bottom}} below the last infringing text.
    3. Go to today's section and add the following template to the bottom of the list:

      {{subst:article-cv|PageName}} from [insert URL or identify non-web source here] ~~~~

      Put the page's name in place of "PageName". If you do not have a URL, enter a description of the source. A pre-filled version can be copied from the top of the copyvio template after substituting it. If yours is the first listing of the day, please add a header to the top of the page, using the page for another date as an example.
    4. Warn the contributor of the listing at their talk page, unless advised not to. The template on the now blanked page supplies a notice you may use for that purpose.

    What not to list here

    • Blatant infringement. Articles that are entirely copyvio can be handled through speedy deletion if it meets the criteria. You should not blank or list the article here if you tag for G12.
    • Non-extensive obvious copyvio. If the copied content is not extensive, you can remove, rewrite, or revert the page to before the text was added. You should place {{Copyvio-revdel|url=copied source|start=diff of copyvio insertion|end=diff before copyvio removal}} on the article afterwards and warn the contributor of the material to the problem, unless advised not to. The template {{Uw-copyright}} may be used for this purpose.
    • Requests for revision deletion. These should be handled by placing {{Copyvio-revdel|url=copied source|start=diff of copyvio insertion|end=diff before copyvio removal}} on the article.
    • Files. For files that are clear copyright violations, follow the procedure for speedy deletion; otherwise list at Files for Discussion. If the file is on the Commons, they can be handled through Commons speedy deletion or Deletion requests.
    • Individual editors. Contributors who repeatedly post copyrighted text or files after appropriate warnings will be blocked from editing to protect the project; see 17 United States Code § 512. If one contributor verifiably inserts multiple copyright violations and systematic review is needed, please file a request at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations.
    • Copyright violations without a source. If you cannot find a source of where something could be copied from, do not list the article here. The content may be removed for other reasons, like being unreferenced or violating our biographies of living persons policy.

    What text can be reused?

    Further information: Wikipedia:Copy-paste

    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. One of the following must be present to reuse the content on Wikipedia:

    If none of the above are present, the text cannot be reused.

    Even when the text can be reused, it must be attributed or it will be considered as plagiarism.

    Responding to listed articles

    Copyright owners and people editing on their behalf or with their permission, please see below.

    Any contributor is welcome to help investigate articles listed for copyright concerns, although only administrators, copyright clerks, and VRT agents should remove {{copyvio}} tags and resolve listings. Copyright problems is run by volunteers and it usually takes a few days before listings are first investigated.

    You can assist in the following ways:

    • Providing information on the copyright status of the article
    • Obtaining or verifying claims of permission
    • Rewriting or removing infringing content (without removing {{copyvio}}.

    Not every article listed here has copyright infringement. The content may be on Wikipedia first, public domain, compatibly licensed, or below the threshold of originality. Editors can provide information about licensing or public domain status under listings here or on the talk page of the article. A link or a clear explanation is very helpful when a clerk or administrator evaluates the article. It may take a few days 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 here.

    Obtaining/verifying permission

    Sometimes material was placed on Wikipedia with the permission of the copyright owner. The owner may be willing to give permission and proper license. 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. If a compatible license is placed online at the point of original publication, please provide a link to that under the listing.

    More details about the permissions process can be seen below and at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.

    Rewriting or removing content

    If an article verifiably has copyvio, it is best to remove the content. However, any contributor may rewrite removed text. If the article is blanked, the rewrite takes place at Talk:PAGENAME/Temp so that the new material can be copied over the old. The listing will link to the specific temporary page. You can directly rewrite on articles tagged for {{close paraphrasing}} or {{copy-paste}}, and remove the tags when the rewrite is complete.

    The article should not be copied over without first removing copied content. Other content from the article can be used, if there is no reason to believe that it may be a copyright issue as well. If the content is copied from an inaccessible source like a book or cannot be verified, please remove all text added by the contributor. If you copy any text from the old article, please leave a note on the listing or in your edit summaries of the rewrite. Reviewing clerks or administrators will then preserve the history of the old article.

    Please review Wikipedia:Copy-paste and its linked guidelines as necessary to ensure the rewrite is compliant with policy. Repairing compatible copying issues is usually as simple as supplying proper attribution.

    Shortcut

    If you submitted work to Wikipedia which you had previously published and your submission was marked as a potential infringement of copyright, you must do one of the following to resolve the problem:

    See also Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.

    Letters and emails may take some time 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 email 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.

    Please keep in mind that content 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

    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, especially with copyright policies and their enforcement. On this board, they are trusted to evaluate and close listings and request administrative actions when necessary. Clerks are periodically reviewed by other clerks and patrolling 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 completing evaluations by clerks. Clerks are trusted 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:

    {{CPC}} may be used to denote resolutions of listings by administrators, clerks and VRT agents.

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    Older than 7 days

    Below are articles that have been listed here for longer than 7 days. They will be processed at any time by clerks or administrators (see WP:CPAA). When every issue on a day is clear, the day may be removed.

    30 January 2025

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    12 February 2025

    • Sissel Kyrkjebø (history · last edit · rewrite) from [1] See my talk page at User_talk:Michael D. Turnbull#A plagiarism question for my analysis of this issue, which is probably more extensive than I've indicated in the article. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:26, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
      Have you received any follow-up on this issue from the team to which you submitted your COPYVIO notification? Every time I check the Sissel Kyrkjebø article, it still looks exactly the same as when you made the submission. In glancing at it once more yesterday, I couldn't help noticing a few little format gremlins I missed earlier, so I went ahead and made them in the assumption that the article will stay up because nothing's happened for so long after you made your submission. (And yet, when I checked the current version of the article on Earwig, it found 79% overlap — though often just phrases.
      Right after that, I joined the Typo Team, remembering all the earlier copy editing work I'd done on that article plus a recent Teahouse conversation about the team itself originated by another editor. My first official membership in a group focused on a particular Wikipedia need. Augnablik (talk) 06:35, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    16 February 2025

    • Draft:Wars of Deposition against Magnus (history · last edit · rewrite) A direct translation of Sundberg, Ulf (2010). Sveriges krig (1050–1448) (in Swedish). Svenskt Militärhistoriskt Bibliotek. pp. 251–259. ISBN 9789185789610. This is partially the same material as in Mecklenburgian invasion of Sweden, which was reported on 10 October 2024. That article contained only a part of Sundberg's article, while this one contains the whole article, with almost sentence to sentence correspondence. To facilitate comparison, I previously pasted part of the text from Sundberg's book to User_talk:GusGusBrus/Mecklenburgian_invasion_of_Sweden#Copyvio concerns (I can provide scans of the rest of the article if needed). Jähmefyysikko (talk) 18:21, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    20 February 2025

    Issue has been resolved for a while now the erring text section has been reworded or removed. Arctic Circle System please do check page again to make sure issue was resolved properly, thanks. Oramfe (talk)

    4 March 2025

    Robert Griffiths (physicist) (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.woodstockschool.in/alumni/distinguished-alumni/griffiths/. Material was added in 2007 [2]. I suspect that this is a case of Wikipedia copying from the source rather than the other way around given the "2003" year on the source material but unfortunately I can't find an archived copy of the source. SunloungerFrog (talk) 10:00, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    8 March 2025

    Articles with close paraphrasing from February to April 2020
    Articles with improper non-free content from June 2020

    This takes the backlog to below five years. MER-C 18:56, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    11 March 2025

    Speculum Musicae (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/speculum-musicae/. Mrfoogles (talk) 03:42, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    12 March 2025

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    9 April 2025

    12 April 2025

    Pilar College (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.facebook.com/groups/47628024129/about. Aristorkle (talk) 13:12, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    13 April 2025

    19 April 2025

    20 April 2025

    My recent edits to this page have been tagged for copy violation. Please note
    (1) All I did was add references to the existing article text which existed prior to the last redirect (done for lack of references). Earlier edits also containing this material, going back several years, have not been so marked.
    (2)The copyright date on the Tumblr post dates from 2017. Text broadly similar to both the post and the most recent text appears in this article version from January 2015. Therefore it appears the Tumblr post is a plagiarism of Wikipedia, NOT the other way around.
    I have posted to the talk page of Onel5969 who tagged the page for copyvio to alert them to this but they have apparently ignored my post (continued with other edits since I posted). Romomusicfan (talk) 02:56, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    My edits have been deleted now but older edits with the same text on are still there. Romomusicfan (talk) 10:42, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
     Done All sorted out by consensus now. Romomusicfan (talk) 22:43, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    https://xtools.wmcloud.org/topedits/en.wikipedia.org/M%20Waleed/0/Operation%20Azm-e-Istehkam might be a good starting point NotAGenious (talk) 07:44, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    22 April 2025


    New listings

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    Some listings may not be displayed on this page due to template transclusion limits. This can be alleviated by clearing the backlog.

    New listings are made on daily reports transcluded on this page and are not directly added to it. To add a new listing, please go to today's section. Instructions for adding new listings can be found at What to list here. Editors may resolve issues with listings at any time, save for presumptive deletion. See the section on responding for more information.


    8 May 2025

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    11 May 2025

    Battle of Koçhisar (1516) (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.devletialiyyei.com/Zaman-Tuneli/kochisar-muharebesi. Annwfwn (talk) 13:13, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Draft:Miguel Nogueira (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://[wikitia].com/wiki/Miguel_Nogueira (site blacklisted, sorry if incorrect way to do this) GoldRomean (talk) 21:14, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2025 May 13

    Wikipedia's current date is 13 May 2025. Put new article listings in Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2025 May 13. Files should be handled by speedy deletion or Wikipedia:Files for discussion.

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