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2015-08-22 (Suspected copyright violations)[edit]
  • I hate these... clearly a CWW but clearly not license-compliant if we don't know where to attribute. Of note, same author created the 1912 version as well with the same copied text, but CSB didn't tag it as some of the racer names that contributed to this article's score were not in that one. The user does have email enabled, perhaps that path might work? Crow Caw 17:41, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
  • @Justlettersandnumbers: Ok... here's what I got. The infringing text in the lede [1] first appeared in this version of the 1911 article. It was subsequently added by the same author to the 1905, 1909, and 1910 versions. The editor in question for this SCV and for the 1912,13,14,15, and 17 articles, reused that text in Aug 2015. So I think we can attribute this (and the other 5) to the 1911 article. Thoughts?
    • Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Still needs a history purge to remove original copyvio. Hafspajen (talk) 18:55, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
Article is nominated for deletion, here see entry for for deletion. Hafspajen (talk) 19:57, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
2015-09-21 (Suspected copyright violations)[edit]
  • Seems to be a close paraphrasing of a site that is itself a rough translation of some source. I culled the close paraphrase that followed the given source though it may still be a paraphrase of a source not identified. CrowCaw 22:02, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
  • Of some concern is the author's talk page, which goes back 15 months and is packed with image license violations, prod/afd/csd notices, etc, and the user's aggregate Talk+UserTalk contributions = zero. CrowCaw 22:07, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
  • Crow, that seems to have been a translational copyvio of this page, pretty much word-for-word from Google translate. I removed it. I share your concern about other edits, and wonder if there may also be a language competence problem. I don't have time (or indeed the necessary language skills) to look further now; David Kurnia Albert seems to be mostly an unattributed translation from id.wp, so there may be that problem too. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 14:49, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
    • Symbol redirect vote.svg Article redirected to non-infringing article. Hut 8.5 21:11, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
2015-09-23 (Suspected copyright violations)[edit]
Split from another article of which that is a mirror, attribution on talk page. Hut 8.5 21:41, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
  • Odd situation. The author posted a CC release at the source page, but then the content got deleted from the source, leaving only a CC release. The first paragraph, minus the cc release, is still found at [2] with a link to the "full article" pointed to the now-deleted content. Thoughts? Crow Caw 18:19, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
    This seems like a valid licensing to me. That the first version was deleted does not invalidate the licensing, and the other version you found does attribute to that first version. I'd attribute it to the first version as it is the original and note that that second version comes from a compatible source. There does not appear to be archived copies.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 18:33, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
Contains material from another article, attribution on talk page. Hut 8.5 21:41, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
2015-09-29 (Suspected copyright violations)[edit]
OTRS pending, according to talk page. Quite a bit of content has been copied from that site. Hut 8.5 21:51, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
Cut-and-paste move with trivial edit history. Hut 8.5 21:51, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
    • Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Hut 8.5 21:51, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
2015-10-07 (Suspected copyright violations)[edit]
2015-10-08 (Suspected copyright violations)[edit]
  • Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MER-C 15:56, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
2015-10-13 (Suspected copyright violations)[edit]
2015-10-15 (Suspected copyright violations)[edit]
2015-10-17 (Suspected copyright violations)[edit]
  • Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MER-C 16:32, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
2015-10-19 (Suspected copyright violations)[edit]
  • False positive. MER-C 15:40, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
  • Public domain content. MER-C 15:40, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
  • Sent to WP:CP. MER-C 15:40, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
  • Non-creative content. MER-C 15:40, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
2015-10-21 (Suspected copyright violations)[edit]
2015-10-22 (Suspected copyright violations)[edit]

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