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This page is for listing and discussing possible copyright problems involving text on Wikipedia, including pages which are 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 about the problem at the relevant talk page, to propose revisions to the material, or to request copyright permission. After the listing period, a copyright problems board clerk or administrator will review the listing and take what further action may be necessary.
Pages listed for copyright review appear in the bottom section of the page. The top includes information for people who have copyright concerns about pages or images, for those whose pages have been tagged for concerns, for community volunteers who'd like to help resolve concerns and for the clerks and administrators who volunteer here.
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- If you believe a Wikipedia page has infringed on your copyright, please see special note below.
- If a page you created has been marked as a copyright problem and you own copyright in the original publication (or have permission from the owner), please see this section.
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Contents
- 1 Handling previously published text on Wikipedia
- 2 Backwards copying: when Wikipedia had (or may have had) it first
- 3 Instructions for listing text-based copyright concerns
- 4 Instructions for handling image copyright concerns
- 5 Responding to articles listed for copyright investigation
- 6 Information about the people who process copyright problems listed on the board
- 7 Closing listings
- 8 Listings of possible copyright problems
- 8.1 Very old issues
- 8.2 Older than 7 days
- 8.2.1 25 October 2015
- 8.2.2 26 October 2015
- 8.2.3 12 November 2015
- 8.2.4 14 November 2015
- 8.2.5 16 November 2015
- 8.2.6 17 November 2015
- 8.2.7 18 November 2015
- 8.2.8 19 November 2015
- 8.2.9 22 November 2015
- 8.2.10 23 November 2015
- 8.2.11 28 November 2015
- 8.2.12 29 November 2015
- 8.2.13 1 December 2015
- 8.2.14 2 December 2015
- 8.2.15 4 December 2015
- 8.2.16 7 December 2015
- 8.2.17 8 December 2015
- 8.2.18 9 December 2015
- 8.2.19 10 December 2015
- 8.2.20 11 December 2015
- 8.2.21 12 December 2015
- 8.2.22 14 December 2015
- 8.2.23 15 December 2015
- 8.2.24 16 December 2015
- 8.2.25 19 December 2015
- 8.2.26 20 December 2015
- 8.2.27 22 December 2015
- 8.2.28 23 December 2015
- 8.2.29 24 December 2015
- 8.2.30 28 December 2015
- 8.2.31 29 December 2015
- 8.2.32 30 December 2015
- 8.2.33 3 January 2016
- 8.2.34 4 January 2016
- 8.2.35 5 January 2016
- 8.2.36 7 January 2016
- 8.3 New listings
- 8.4 Footer
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 even 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 (such as Copyright-free logos); 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. This is not only a matter of respecting local custom. When content is under a license that is compatible with Wikipedia's license, proper attribution may be required. 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 material (text or images) may be subject to contributor copyright investigations, to help ensure the removal from the project of all copyrighted material posted in contravention of policy. Contributors who repeatedly post copyrighted material after appropriate warnings will be blocked from editing, to protect the project; see 17 United States Code § 512.
Backwards copying: when Wikipedia had (or may have had) it first
In some instances, it is clear that two pieces of text (one on Wikipedia, and one elsewhere) are copies of each other, but not clear which piece is the original and which is the copy. "Compliant" sites that copy Wikipedia text note that they have done so, but not all of our re-users are compliant.
If you've found such a case, you might first check the discussion page to see if a note has been added to the top of the talk page to allay people's concerns. If not, you can look for clues. Do other pages in the other website copy other Wikipedia articles? Did the content show up on Wikipedia all in once piece, placed by a single editor? If you don't see good evidence that Wikipedia had it first, it's a good idea to bring it up for investigation. You might follow the Instructions for listing below or tag the article {{copy-paste|url=possible source}} so that others can evaluate. If you confirm definitely that the content was on Wikipedia first, please consider adding {{backwardscopy}} to the article's talk page with an explanation of how you know.
If you see an article somewhere else which was copied from Wikipedia without attribution, you might visit the CC-BY-SA compliance page or Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks.
Instructions for listing 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 the content was copied from that source to Wikipedia and not the other way around (Wikipedia has numerous mirrors);
- 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:
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{{db-copyvio|url=insert URL of source here}}{{db-copyvio|describe non-web source here}}
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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 the infringing text or revert the page to a non-copyrighted version if you can.
- The infringing text will remain in the page history for archival reasons unless the copyright holder asks the Wikimedia Foundation to remove it (unless it is tagged for {{copyvio-revdel}}. Please note the reason for removal in the edit summary and at the article's talk page (you may wish to use {{subst:cclean}}). When possible, please identify and alert the contributor of the material to the problem. 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, or reversion/removal is otherwise complicated:
- Replace the text with one of the following:
- Go to today's section and add
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* {{subst:article-cv|PageName}} from [insert URL or identify non-web source here] ~~~~{{subst:cppage}}to the top. - Advise the contributor of the material 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.)
- Instances where 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; list images that are suspected to be copyright violations at possibly unfree images and images with disputed fair use rationales at Non-free content review. 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 OTRS team members 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.
Supplying evidence of non-infringement
Articles are listed for copyright investigation because contributors have reason to suspect they constitute a copyright concern, but not every article listed here is actually a copyright problem. Sometimes, the content was on Wikipedia first. Sometimes, the article is public domain or compatibly licensed and can be easily fixed by supplying attribution (e.g. through a dummy edit). Sometimes, the person who placed it here is the copyright owner of freely-licensed material and this simply needs to be verified.
If you can provide information to prove license or public domain status of the article, please do. It doesn't matter if you do it under the listing for 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, this is done on a temporary page at Draft:PAGENAME 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 at the talk page of the article to alert the administrator or clerk who addresses the listing. 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 3.0 Unported 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-commons@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.
Information about the people who process copyright problems listed on the board
Copyright problems board 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 problems board clerks are experienced editors on Wikipedia who have demonstrated familiarity with Wikipedia's approach to non-free text and its processes for dealing with them. They are trusted to evaluate and close listings, although their closures may sometimes require completion by administrators, when use of administrative tools is required. Clerks are periodically reviewed by the administrators who work in copyright areas on Wikipedia.
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. Working the copyright problems board 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 should stay listed for a minimum of 5 days before they are checked and processed by copyright problems board clerks, 7 days before they are checked or processed by administrators, who close the daily listings. OTRS agents who verify images may close listings at any time.
For advice for resolving listings, see:
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Advice for admins (OTRS agents, see section there)
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Clerks#Advice for clerks
The templates collected at Template:CPC may be useful for administrators, clerks and OTRS agents noting resolution.
Listings of possible copyright problems
Very old issues
Older than 7 days
- Below are articles that have been listed here for longer than 7 days. At this point, they may be processed by any administrator (see WP:CPAA). When every ticket on a day is clear, the day may be removed.
25 October 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Nexyz. Corporation (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.nexyz.co.jp/company/achieve.html. Astrosalad (talk) 07:09, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
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Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:22, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
- User:SEOplatforms/sandbox (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.brightedge.com/news/press-releases/2013-06-11-BrightEdge-Raises-42.8-Million. Brianhe (talk) 17:15, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
- Charlie Adams (drummer) (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20060523011703/http://www.charlieadams.com/about.html. This may be part of a wider problem; there may also be a COI aspect. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:24, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
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Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Yikes, Justlettersandnumbers! Do we still need to spot-check other edits? That one was pretty bad. If I had known how widespread it was, I might have stubbed it to begin with. :( I thinkI got it all. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 02:09, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
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- Moonriddengirl, I haven't looked at this recently. But the quick off-the-top-of-my-head reply from what I recall is "yes, definitely". I'll try to dig a bit later today. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:02, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
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- Justlettersandnumbers, I've found copy-pasting in Ethnicity (album). That was an unsourced copy-paste, so we have plagiarism going on here as well. That means, sadly, that we can't rely on this user to identify where he copied his content from. :( I don't have time to look through it at the moment, but there's definitely copy-pasting in this edit (and close paraphrase) at least from [1] (the epiphany line and subsequent.) We may be heading towards a CCI here. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:32, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
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- Moonriddengirl, I haven't looked at this recently. But the quick off-the-top-of-my-head reply from what I recall is "yes, definitely". I'll try to dig a bit later today. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:02, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
- Ancient Surgical Instruments (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.indiana.edu/~ancmed/instr1.html. clpo13(talk) 21:04, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
- National Coalition Supporting Soviet Jewry (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://ncsej.org/about-us. Mhym (talk) 19:30, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
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Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:33, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
26 October 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Barony of Blackhall (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://web.archive.org/web/20120312164235/http://mapage.noos.fr/rgillespi1/gillespie.html. Many strange problems at this page, including an apparent COI. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:56, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
- Alice Lougee Hagemeyer (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/post/113253914938/alice-lougee-hagemeyer. Creator asserts authorship of link in edit history. Hut 8.5 22:46, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
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Copyright concerns remain. Article deleted or tagged for speedy deletion. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:35, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
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- Comment. I think admin attention may be needed here. This was deleted as G12, and promptly re-created, still with considerable problems. I'm afraid all contribs of this editor may need to be reviewed – please see Vicki Garvin, listed under today's date. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:48, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
12 November 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- SAETA (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.saeta.com.ec/. Gab4gab (talk) 13:44, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
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Backwardscopy. Tag and explanation placed at talk page. --Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:01, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
14 November 2015
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2015-11-14 (Suspected copyright violations)
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Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Lou Marinoff (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20041206153706/http://www.loumarinoff.com/bio_cv.htm. Foundational copy-paste. All edits by this user will need to be checked; fortunately there aren't very many. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:18, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
- Dhudhi (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://newpakhistorian.wordpress.com/2015/04/11/baghela-dhudhi-phullarwan-and-rath-tribes/. See also Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dhudhi. Psychonaut (talk) 15:52, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
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Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. —Psychonaut (talk) 16:38, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
- James Creagan (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20051214000420/http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/biographies/creagan_james.html. Same editor as Lou Marinoff above. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:34, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
- Power transition theory (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20030323055909/http://www.hawaii.edu/intlrel/pols315/Text/Theory/PowerTransitionTheory.htm. Same again. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:54, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
- Draft:August Puig (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://augustpuig.com/about-the-artist Note that at User talk:Christian-1984, the creator states that an OTRS email was sent, but that was way back on August 14. Given that we're talking 3 months ago (as of this writing), this raises some possibilities – like it was but there's a long backlog; it was reviewed and I don't know where to look for the result; it never made it into the system for whatever reason and so forth.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:43, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
No copyright concern. Material PD or appropriately licensed for use. Permission received, Fuhghettaboutit. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:05, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Reverend Thomas Franklin Welch (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.pcahs.org/pcaolr/bio02/bio-0116.htm. clpo13(talk) 21:02, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
- Milton Resnick (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20030625133950/http://www.robertmillergallery.com/Resnick_Main.htm. Note: there's also a later edit, possibly by the same editor as Lou Marinoff above, which merits investigation. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:33, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
- Qarshi University (history · last edit · rewrite) Some of the text in the "Departments" section has been copied from http://www.qu.edu.pk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89&Itemid=100. Due to the promotional nature of the text, I suspect that other text in the same section also has been copied from somewhere. --Stefan2 (talk) 23:20, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
16 November 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- San Diego incident (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/San_Diego_Incident. clpo13(talk) 18:12, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Publication bias (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25988604. I have
not identified ornotified the contributor of the copyrighted material. Elvey(t•c) 21:54, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
17 November 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Into sunlight (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.usma.edu/dep/Documents/West%20Point%20Program.pdf http://intosunlight.org/Together%20Higher%20&%20Robin%20Becker%20Dance.pdf. Adam9007 (talk) 01:50, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- Ian Sprague (history · last edit · rewrite) from . Erictimewell (talk) 08:52, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- Mount Kelly School (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.mountkelly.com/History. David Biddulph (talk) 16:13, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- Ta' Kola Windmill (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20101027041959/http://www.heritagemalta.org/sites/takola/takolahistory.html. This appears to part of a wider, but not huge, problem. The editor's user-page reads "User page for Heritage Malta", and many edits seem to consist of copy-pastes of Heritage Malta materials (which are copyright). Note: this has nothing to do with the more recent copyvio already removed by MER-C as part of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Continentaleurope. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:40, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
18 November 2015
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2015-11-18 (Suspected copyright violations)
ADMIN NEEDED: Previously deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mahika sharma. Please evaluate if this is a recreation (g4) or if it is different enough to remain. Copyright issue seems to have been resolved, so if it's not a G4 then we can call this one Cleaned. CrowCaw 21:12, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
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Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Battle of the Corinth Canal (history · last edit · rewrite) Content is directly copied from the 4 sources given as references (see history). I don't think it is quite a G12 though. CrowCaw 23:38, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
19 November 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Www.jonathanholloway.com (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.remixsummits.com/syd/speaker-highlights-3/speaker/Jonathan%20Holloway. Adam9007 (talk) 01:02, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
- Phoebe Man (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.ovgallery.com/artist/phoebe-man/, http://artradarjournal.com/2014/04/25/5-hong-kong-women-artists-to-know-now/, http://www.scm.cityu.edu.hk/profile/SMPHOEBE. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:13, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
- Supreme Bishop (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.ifi.ph/history. Much text copied verbatim, but not entire section. Tagged article with {{copypaste}} on 13 November, and Talk:Supreme Bishop comment and message to User talk:Jackievon#Supreme Bishop, who seems to have copied the violating text, on 16 November. Article not edited to remove anything yet. Pol098 (talk) 14:20, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
- Toyama-ryū (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://toyamaryuiaido.jp/toyamaryu_en.html. Peter Rehse (talk) 18:05, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 08:09, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
22 November 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Peckett OQ Class (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.heritagerailway.co.uk/news/the-monster-returns. Biscuittin (talk) 00:16, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
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- Rewrite moved into place. MER-C 20:39, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
- Innovative Youth Forum (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://vimeo.com/142501367 https://vimeo.com/142639257 http://www.innovativeyouthforum.org/who-we-are/ http://swateagles.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/about-innovative-youth-forum-iyf.html. Adam9007 (talk) 01:25, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
- Syed Mohammad Izhar Ashraf (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://seekerofthesacredknowledge.wordpress.com/biographies-of-awliya-allah/sayyidi-syed-izhar-ashraf/. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:30, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
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Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:00, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
- Madhukhali Upazila (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Madhukhali_Upazila. (I'm following through on a case where another editor placed the Copyviocore template on the article, but neglected to complete the remaining filing steps. This article has been a copyright violation of the Banglapedia entry since this edit. If someone would roll the article back to the stub it was before that edit, I can improve it from there. Worldbruce (talk) 20:08, 22 November 2015 (UTC))
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- Note: I moved this here from Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2015 April 5, as I thought it had little chance of being seen there. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:00, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdeletion has been done. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:44, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
- Note: I moved this here from Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2015 April 5, as I thought it had little chance of being seen there. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:00, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
- Joseph Fleck (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://postalmuseum.si.edu/indiansatthepostoffice/mural35.html. Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:42, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
- Wrigley Field renovations (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/jon-greenberg/post/_/id/530/statues-relocated-during-wrigley-construction. Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:42, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
- Mirsharai Upazila (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Mirsharai_Upazila. (I'm following through on a case where another editor placed the Copyviocore template on the article, but neglected to complete the remaining filing steps. This article has been a copyright violation of the Banglapedia entry since this edit. If someone would roll the article back to the stub it was just before that edit, I can improve it from there. Worldbruce (talk) 19:37, 22 November 2015 (UTC))
23 November 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women (history · last edit · rewrite) from the actual lists. Given past discussions about copyright of lists this seems certain to be a problem. Listing in case any one wants to turn it into an article about the list or similar rather than just being a plain list. Not done any notifications since the original creator hasn't edited in 6 years and trying to pick apart who else had made major contirbutios would be a mess. Dpmuk (talk) 03:24, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
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Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. I haven't added revdelete request; do you think it advisable to do so, Dpmuk (are these really "blatant" copyvios?)? I've removed similar content from several of the other pages linked from Template:Forbes Magazine Lists too. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:24, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- I'd agree that they're not blantant. The reason I may have revdel'd is it would make restoring a lot harder but as it's not a repeated problem yet I'd be tempted to leave it as is. This advice comes with the caveat that it's been at least a year since I was active in these areas so I may be out of date! Dpmuk (talk) 03:04, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
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- Kalhaar Blues & Greens Golf Club (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://kalhaarbluesandgreensgolf.golfgaga.com/. Velella Velella Talk 11:10, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
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- Vicki Garvin (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2007/10/vicki-ama-garvin-1915-2007-organizer.html. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:43, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
- Ruth Rappaport (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn42274. Same editor as the above; all contribs need to be looked at. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:59, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
- New Heights Education Group Ohio (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/upgrade-your-world-pamela-s-clark http://www.newheightseducation.org/who-we-are.html. Adam9007 (talk) 17:17, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
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- Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.emrsscotland.org. Drchriswilliams (talk) 23:21, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
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28 November 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Officers' Club (Bangladesh) (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://officersclubdhaka.com/?page_id=148. TomStar81 (Talk) 09:58, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
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- Comment Using Google to search for "provided funds to construct an auditorium, covered badminton complex" before 20 February 2007, produced a hit on http://officersclubdhaka.com/?page_id=148 dated 24 December 2006, which predates the Wikipedia article and led me to believe they had it first. Looking at the user's other contributions around this time, I immediately found an unambiguous copyright violation, paragraphs copied verbatim from Banglapedia's Chawk Mosque article into our Chawk Mosque, which lends further weight to the suspicion that Officers' Club (Bangladesh) is a copyright violation. Worldbruce (talk) 10:37, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
- ALO Street Art (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://pureevilgallery.virb.com/alo. This is being listed here administratively, as there is apparently an ORTS ticket in the works for the article (or so the talk page claims). Until that come through, though, this remains a copyright violation. TomStar81 (Talk) 11:31, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
- 7th BRICS summit (history · last edit · rewrite) closely paraphrased from http://www.asean.org/images/2015/November/asean-india/Overview%20ASEAN-India%20Dialogue%20Relations%20-%20November%202015.pdf. Psychonaut (talk) 11:59, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
- Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (history · last edit · rewrite) closely paraphrased from http://www.asean.org/images/2015/November/asean-india/Overview%20ASEAN-India%20Dialogue%20Relations%20-%20November%202015.pdf. Psychonaut (talk) 11:59, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
- ASEAN–India relations (history · last edit · rewrite) copied or closely paraphrased from http://www.asean.org/images/2015/November/asean-india/Overview%20ASEAN-India%20Dialogue%20Relations%20-%20November%202015.pdf and possibly other sources. Psychonaut (talk) 11:59, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
29 November 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Nazi architecture (history · last edit · rewrite) from 71% of this article is suspect, parts copied from Scobie, Hitler's State Architecture and other books; see Talk:Nazi architecture#Copyvio. MER-C 19:48, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
- I tagged this article as problematic because I ran into several copyvios. I started removing them. Most of them were footnoted (though not necessarily accurately), but there was no way of telling how much of the preceding text had been copied verbatim without the original sources (which I only had partial access to). So I then investigated where this text had come from, and found that most of it was from two editors in 2005 (maybe socks, given the similarity in their editing style). Since their contributions were added so long ago, it seems reasonable to suppose that their text has become interwoven into the article, with later editors just creating derived text which is equally a copyvio. Also, as I deleted the copyvio text, it became harder to preserve a logical organization to the article. So I conclude that, regrettably, we'll have to start from scratch. --Macrakis (talk) 20:37, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
1 December 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Myra Greene (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.myragreene.com/biographyandcontact. Velella Velella Talk 21:48, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
- Naïve realism (psychology) (history · last edit · rewrite) from [5]. Graham Beards (talk) 23:18, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
2 December 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Ahmed Abou Hashima (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.egyptian-steel.com/. Cordless Larry (talk) 18:30, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
4 December 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Bien Unido, Bohol (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.bohol.ph/mun49.html. Unbuttered parsnip (talk) mytime= Fri 16:38, wikitime= 08:38, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
- Lorenzo Sperlonga (history · last edit · rewrite) from [6][7] PcPrincipal (talk) 22:40, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
7 December 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Red Bull Culture Clash (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.factmag.com/2012/11/08/red-bull-music-academy-culture-clash-2012-who-won-and-how-it-happened/. Crookesmoor (talk) 09:06, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
- Ashraf Ghani as http://president.gov.af/en/page/8262/8263 Help wanted, please - I don't know what action's needed, if any.
- A substantial amount of text was added in 2006[8]. Parts were recently deleted and reinstated. I then deleted parts as copyright violations because identical or extremely closely matching text was to be found in various places including the subject's own official biography as president of Afghanistan[9]. I hadn't yet noticed the text was added to Wikipedia eight years before Ashraf Ghani became president.
- In 2006, JesseW raised concerns about that text on the article talk page[10] and on the contributing editor's talk page[11]. The editor, Clarelockhart, didn't reply or edit again so the questions of copyright and conflict of interest remain outstanding.
- When I realised that the 2006 text couldn't have been copied from the presidential biography, I considered self-reverting. But while it's possible - if very surprising - that the presidential biog was copied from Wikipedia, it's also possible that both spring from some other text that predates both, might have been written by Lockhart and/or might even have been partly written by Ashraf Ghani himself, e.g. in a book or a list of conference speakers.
- If it was a copyright violation, then there's still some very close paraphrasing that should probably be removed. NebY (talk) 14:27, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
8 December 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
9 December 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Mitchell College (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.mitchell.edu/. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 05:05, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
10 December 2015
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- Coromandel Gold Rush (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://mineforgold.co.nz/mining-gold/nz-gold-mining-history/. gadfium 01:00, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- Real estate trading (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://online-aste.com/dettaglio/aste-online/real-estate-trading-aste/. L235 (t / c / ping in reply) 01:41, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- Helen Acquroff (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.womenofscotland.org.uk/women/helen-acquroff. Thparkth (talk) 11:30, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
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- I have email confirmation from the operators of womenofscotland.org.uk that they do not claim any copyright ownership of user-contributed content to their site, and that the Wikipedia editor and the womenofscotland contributor appear to be the same person and hence the copyright owner. If this all the case, there is no copyright issue here. I have asked them to email permissions-en with this information. Thparkth (talk) 22:20, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
- Is it OK to upload images from http://sufi.ir/Pictures.php ? Below the webpage is written " Use of the form and content of this site is free, but subject to honesty." Thanks.--Taranet (talk) 19:29, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- Monday Morning Podcast (history · last edit · rewrite) from Almost all of the descriptions are copied from copyright content. For example episode 3 from http://www.billburr.com/podcast/monday-morning-podcast-1-17-11; episode 4 from http://www.billburr.com/podcast/monday-morning-podcast-1-24-11; episode 5 from http://www.billburr.com/podcast/monday-morning-podcast-1-31-11; and so on. Diannaa (talk) 22:24, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
11 December 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Ellen Coolidge Burke (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.alexandria.lib.va.us/client/en_US/home/;jsessionid=5C97D2DCF7CD56A7481A528B12516A7C.enterprise-23800?rm=ELLEN+COOLIDGE1%7C%7C%7C1%7C%7C%7C0%7C%7C%7Ctrue&ic=true&dt=list. I may be way off here, but in my view the amount of copy-pasting from the source into the initial version of this page is unacceptable. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:04, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
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- Earwig's tool gives 27% "unlikely" even to that version. The phrases re-used contain standard clinches "until her retirement" or obvious ways to express ideas "as a cataloger and reference librarian" or related to proper names "Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.". These have already been removed to placate the bot - Earwig's now reads 1% identifying only the phrase "the League of Women Voters" in common.
- If the Alexandria Library wish to sue me on the basis of either version, which is an almost vanishing likelihood, I wish them luck. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:27, 11 December 2015 (UTC).
- I have requested G7 deletion and will replace with the re-written version. Generally we don't worry about this sort of stuff in history. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:34, 11 December 2015 (UTC).
- Er, actually yes we do worry about it, Rich Farmbrough. You copied several chunks of text word-for-word from the source instead of writing new text in your own words. Why? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:09, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
- It is futile to worry about reproducing short phrases of no significant creative value.
- Er, actually yes we do worry about it, Rich Farmbrough. You copied several chunks of text word-for-word from the source instead of writing new text in your own words. Why? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:09, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
- I have requested G7 deletion and will replace with the re-written version. Generally we don't worry about this sort of stuff in history. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:34, 11 December 2015 (UTC).
Copyright law does not protect names, titles, or short phrases or expressions. Even if a name, title, or short phrase is novel or distinctive or lends itself to a play on words, it cannot be protected by copyright.
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- Twin Anemia-Polycythemia Sequence (TAPS) (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://tapsregistry.org/what-is-taps & http://www.tapsregistry.org/ & https://www.tapsregistry.org/how-to-diagnose. (t) Josve05a (c) 21:01, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
- Draft:QuestFusion (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://questfusion.com/about/. (t) Josve05a (c) 22:19, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
12 December 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Tisziji Munoz (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.heartfiresound.com/briefbio.html · rodii · 02:05, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
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Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:50, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
- El Burrito de Belén (history · last edit · rewrite) from translated song lyrics from 1976. Regards, James(talk/contribs) 08:37, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
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Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MER-C 11:17, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
- In the Hell of Dixie (film) (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.tvduck.com/In-the-Hell-of-Dixie.htm. (t) Josve05a (c) 20:50, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
- The American Journal of Managed Care (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.amazon.it/American-Journal-Managed-Care-April-English-ebook/dp/B003ZYFBTI. (t) Josve05a (c) 22:34, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
14 December 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Social network change detection (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/publications/papers/CMU-CS-08-116.pdf. Kevin (aka L235 · t · c · ping in reply) 06:54, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
- Tiến Quân Ca (history · last edit · rewrite) Song by Văn Cao from 1944. --Stefan2 (talk) 20:37, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
- Ishy Bilady (history · last edit · rewrite) The article states that the song was written by Arif Al Sheikh Abdullah Al Hassan in 1996. --Stefan2 (talk) 20:41, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
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Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MER-C 04:54, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
15 December 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Draft:RNLB Charles Burton (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://mobileiom.com/charlesburton/. I've posted this for copyright investigation as the draft has been around for over a year and it is difficult to determine whether the draft copied from the website or vice versa. /wia🎄/tlk 04:15, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
- Hockanum Mills Vernon Conn (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://historicbuildingsct.com/?p=19016, http://www.hockanummills.com/ etc. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:07, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
- Range of Light (album) (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.jagjaguwar.com/onesheet.php?cat=JAG240. Whpq (talk) 12:28, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
- Forbes Magazine's List of America's Best Colleges (history · last edit · rewrite) from Forbes. I removed rankings based on apparently non-factual criteria here, was reverted; listing here for review. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:33, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
- Forbes Fictional 15 (history · last edit · rewrite) from Forbes. As above. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:36, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
- Spiritual ecology (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://spiritualecology.org/about-spiritual-ecology. Velella Velella Talk 19:52, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
- BancoSol (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.microfinance.com/English/Papers/Bolivia_BancoSol_Growth.pdf. Natg 19 (talk) 20:04, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
- Stephanie Siriwardhana (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.sundaytimes.lk/110717/Magazine/sundaytimesmagazine_01.html. Jetpet (talk) 05:36, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
16 December 2015
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- National Assembly (Armenia) (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.concourt.am/hr/armenia/engl/electcod5.htm. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 18:35, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
19 December 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
Parathion methyl (history · last edit · rewrite) was translated from Parathion méthyl which is a copyvio from Université de Rennes I. 37.138.32.214 (talk) 13:54, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
- Parnall (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.chew76.fsnet.co.uk/parnall/chap5.html. — Rod talk 16:13, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
20 December 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Ryan Harrison (tennis) (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.browsebiography.com/bio-ryan_harrison_tennis.html. Might be a backwards copy, but source page was created back in 2011, and appears not to have been modified since, so unlikely. Mdann52 (talk) 14:00, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
- Hassan Moustafa (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://ihf.info/en-us/theihf/organization/president/curriculumvitae.aspx. Manxruler (talk) 18:38, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
22 December 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Premier Badminton League (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.thehindu.com/sport/other-sports/sudirman-cuplike-format-for-ibl/article5016442.ece, http://sports.ndtv.com/badminton/news/250892-much-delayed-indian-badminton-league-edition-2-hits-legal-roadblock, possibly elsewhere too. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:43, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
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- Roberto Gagliardi (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20140322001958/http://artpress24.com/roberto_gagliardi_collector_gallery_curator_journalist. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:30, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
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- Chianciano Museum of Art (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20081211234136/http://www.museodarte.org/EN/Etchings_and_Engravings.html. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:41, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
- Note: both this and the one above seem to have considerable COI problems too. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:41, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
- ICGCET (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://icgcet.org/. Adam9007 (talk) 22:12, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
- Achille Castiglioni (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.r-and-company.com/biography_detail.cfm?designer_id=50, foundational. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:10, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
23 December 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Titli (2014 film) (history · last edit · rewrite) from [12] Rohini (talk) 08:36, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
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Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MER-C 04:19, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
- Bobby Lockwood (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://imdb.com/name/nm1225475/. Chesnaught555 (talk) 10:06, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
- Luc ex (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.lucex.nl/cms/node/1. Kleuske (talk) 12:19, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
- Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://kashmirsufis.wordpress.com/tag/mir-syed-ali-hamdani-srinagar/ and many sources (in my edit summaries for the article, and as comment in blanked arti cle text) Pol098 (talk) 22:16, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
24 December 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Siderski (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://s.com.ua/Catalog/Collection/Siderski/. Webarchive says the URL predates our article, and their Terms of Use do not indicate any evidence of compatible licensing. There is also an overly long quote at the bottom.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 17:38, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
- The article creator is apparently working through OTRS now.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:42, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
- The Bloodless Revolution (book) (history · last edit · rewrite) from There is no content that isn't just stealing someone else's words. Basically a copyvio cut-and-paste. It's identified what the sources are, at least.. Adam Cuerden (talk) 03:15, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
28 December 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- User:Ericsherby/sandbox (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.sherby.co.il/pdf/2013-Survey-Methodology-(E)-and-Q&A.pdf. Several sentences appear to be copied, and I had originally removed them and requested revision deletion. However, the editor contested the removal on the basis of the merger doctrine/idea–expression divide. Thanks, /wia🎄/tlk 21:37, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
29 December 2015
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30 December 2015
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
Continuously Loving (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.continuamenteamando.com/en/about-the-movie.html. Brianhe (talk) 09:48, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
3 January 2016
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
The article Oldest people is over half copy-vio from http://www.grg.org/Adams/m.HTM and http://www.grg.org/Adams/C.HTM The major and significant components of these tables are completely copied over. This information represents significant research and is (outside of Wikipedia) uniquely the product of the GRG site admin. I am sorry this is not formatted correctly, my first time in this area and I just could not figure out what was expected. Thank-you.Legacypac (talk) 02:47, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
• last edit • rewrite) from http://www.grg.org/Adams/m.HTM And http://www.grg.org/Adams/C.HTM Legacypac (talk) 03:46, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
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- Nepali Topi (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.shankerhotel.com.np/blog/2014/11/14/nepali-topi-mark-of-the-nepali-man. Adam9007 (talk) 03:23, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
4 January 2016
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
5 January 2016
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Manyawar Kanshiram Engineering College of Information Technology (history · last edit · rewrite) and GEC Azamgarh (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.gecazamgarh.ac.in/About.aspx http://gecazamgarh.ac.in/Msg_Director.aspx. MER-C 12:08, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
- Maheshkhali Upazila (history · last edit · rewrite) from . (I'm following through on a case where another editor placed the Copyviocore template on the article, but neglected to complete the remaining filing steps. Although the lede matches [13] and [14], I strongly suspect that Wikipedia had the text first, other sites copied it without attribution, and the tagger is mistaken about this being a copyright violation on Wikipedia's part. Either way, the article has been tagged for 9 months and really needs to be dealt with.) Worldbruce (talk) 17:15, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
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7 January 2016
- Isma'il ibn Jafar (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://simerg.com/literary-readings/the-ismailis-fom-the-earliest-times-to-the-fall-of-the-fatimid-empire/. Ghirla-трёп- 07:21, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
- The copyvio was added as early as 2012. --Ghirla-трёп- 07:26, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
- Katharine, Duchess of Kent (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.royal.gov.uk/ThecurrentRoyalFamily/TheDuchessofKent/Activitiesandinterests.aspx. 137.205.238.124 (talk) 09:58, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
- User:Jaygoldm/sandbox/George Large (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.goldmarkart.com/scholarship/artists-2/george-large/). —UY Scuti Talk 13:33, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
- Danny Guba (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20140903124039/http://docepares-europe.com/Danny_Guba.html. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:22, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
- Chris Beyrer (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://jliflc.com/author/cbeyrer/. Adam9007 (talk) 22:07, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
- Rostislav Krimer (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.bashmet-festival.com/eng/festival_info/rostislavkrimer. A previous draft of this was rejected as copyvio and deleted, this one was accepted but still contains copyvio. Most of the "Early life" and "Concert life" sections were taken from that link, the rest isn't but may well be taken from somewhere else, possibly one of the foreign language sources cited. Hut 8.5 22:38, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
- www.bashmet.com has given all necessary license to Wikipedia to use any text or photo from this resource, so all are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) The necessary statement is left on the http://bashmet-festival.com/eng/festival_info/rostislavkrimer
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New listings are not added directly to this page but are instead on daily reports. To add a new listing, please go to today's section. Instructions for adding new listings can be found at Instructions for listing text-based copyright concerns. Entries may not be reviewed and are not closed for at least 7 days to give the original authors of the article time to deal with the problem.
Older than 5 days
- Below are articles that have been listed here for longer than 5 days. At this point, they may be processed by a copyright problems board clerk. After 7 days, they may be closed by an administrator.
8 January 2016
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Tjger (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://tjger.ddns.net/tjger/en/index.html. Adam9007 (talk) 00:42, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
- Death March to Durham (history · last edit · rewrite) from [15] and possibly originally from [16]. /wiae /tlk 19:22, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
- Food Matters (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1528734/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl. The rest of the article appears to be pretty much a summary of the rest of the IMDB information. Adam Cuerden (talk) 20:44, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
9 January 2016
- Draft:Sam Means (Musician) (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://thrillcall.com/artist/Nate-Ruess. (t) Josve05a (c) 17:25, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
Recent listings
- Below are articles that have been listed here for 5 days or less. Anyone in the community may help clarify the copyright status on these. See the section on responding for more information.
10 January 2016
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Karmanyevadhikarste... (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://workingonit-opanone-liners.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/ja-baki-rpoilo.html. Drchriswilliams (talk) 14:39, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
- International Competition for Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.horowitzv.org/eng-home/aboutc.html. P Walford (talk) 17:11, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
- Food Matters (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1528734/. Copyright issues were discussed at Talk:Food Matters#Copyvio issues:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Food Matters was closed in November 2013 and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Food Matters (2nd nomination) was closed in January 2016. TenOfAllTrades (talk · contribs) identified a cut-and-paste edits from IMDb in February 2015, but the article has existed since at least November 2013 (and probably longer). Is there a clean version without copyright violations that can be reverted to?Unfortunately, this article had masses of copyvio, that came out when I started checking the sources to prepare to improve it, post-AfD. I shan't object to its recreation (with appropriate balancing of the fringe claims), of course, but... this is unusual. Adam Cuerden (talk) 04:10, 9 January 2016 (UTC)- Copyvio information (copied here from User talk:JzG, diff). North America1000 02:30, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
The bulk of the article text was derived from a series of cut & paste edits from IMDB, made by an anonymous IP editor in February 2015. At the time the article was deleted a day ago, the majority of the article's text – a summary of the film's content – was still word-for-word identical. (To add insult to injury, that same section of the article had borne an unresolved, ignored cleanup tag since March 2015.) TenOfAllTrades(talk) 01:32, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
Pinging admins JzG (talk · contribs), TenOfAllTrades (talk · contribs), Sandstein (talk · contribs), Northamerica1000 (talk · contribs), and Jreferee (talk · contribs), who can see the article. Pinging Adam Cuerden (talk · contribs) and duffbeerforme (talk · contribs).
11 January 2016
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den (history · last edit · rewrite) This is a copyrighted poem. There's a discussion at Wikipedia:Non-free content review/Archive 5#Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den which seems to be unclosed (although someone added closure tags), and there was an attempt to create an RfC at User:Rjanag/Lion RFC, although only one person in addition to the original author ever commented on the attempted RfC. The main argument by those who wish to keep the text in the article seems to be that other stuff exists, for example in other language editions of this article. --Stefan2 (talk) 21:06, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
- Richard the Stork (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://market-projects-2014.powertothepixel.com/2014/pixel-market/richard-the-stork. The entire plot was copied from there. Qpalzmmzlapq (talk | contribs) 22:14, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
12 January 2016
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Ichi Sound (history · last edit · rewrite) from [17] — Jeff G. ツ (talk) 04:23, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
- Watermen’s Museum (history · last edit · rewrite) from [18] — Jeff G. ツ (talk) 05:00, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
- Caroline Kang (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.carolinekangcello.com/#about. Safiel (talk) 22:15, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
- Draft:Sant Parmanand Hospital (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.9apps.com/android-apps/SPH-App/. Page is nominated for speedy deletion under criteria A7 and G11. Qpalzmmzlapq (talk | contribs) 23:55, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
13 January 2016
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
- Royal Institute of Navigation (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.rin.org.uk/general/About-the-RIN, http://www.rin.org.uk/general/History. Rax (talk) 22:24, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
- Shake Hands Forever (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780007159444/shake-hands-for-ever. I'm really not skilled enough to know who added this and when so I can't inform the original editor. I was (very nicely) requested to stop reporting copyvios until I learnt how to do this and so far I have. But... well... that seems weird to me. Trey Maturin (talk) 22:42, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
14 January 2016
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- Confidence trick (history · last edit · rewrite) from Edward H. Smith, Confessions of a Confidence Man: A Handbook for Suckers, p. 35-37. BlacklightShining (talk) 08:46, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
- Adarsh Commercial Institute (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://suvratraj.xtgem.com/adarsh+commercial+institute/. larryv (talk) 08:59, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
- The Great Mosque of Algiers (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.dessau.com/en/projects/great-mosque-of-algiers-3 and http://www.kuk.de/content/pro/2007-3040/2007-3040-e.pdf. Speedy deletion was contested, so now they have one week to fix it. - HyperGaruda (talk) 15:31, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
- Eufrozina of Janina (history · last edit · rewrite) from Translations by modern translator Robert Elsie ubiquity (talk) 18:10, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
- Tried to remove but Lostrigot (talk · contribs) reverted, claiming that what looks to me like an extensive copy was a fair use sample. Lostrigot has also claimed that it's a folk poem (so presumably public domain), but it's the specific translation I believe is copyright. ubiquity (talk) 18:10, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
- Oh, my Beautiful Morea (history · last edit · rewrite) from Translations by modern translator Robert Elsie ubiquity (talk) 18:10, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
15 January 2016
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
Wikipedia's current date is 15 January 2016. Put new article listings in Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2016 January 15. Images should be handled by speedy deletion, possibly unfree files or Wikipedia:Files for discussion.