Wikipedia:Copyright problems
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This page is for listing and discussing possible copyright problems involving text on Wikipedia, including pages suspected to be copyright violations. Listings typically remain for at least five days before review and closure by a copyright problems clerk or administrator. During this time, interested contributors are invited to offer feedback, propose revisions, or request copyright permission.
Listed pages appear in the bottom section of the page. For additional guidance, see Instructions for dealing with text-based copyright concerns.
To add a new listing, go to today's section.
Instructions
Handling previously published text on Wikipedia
Under the United States law that governs Wikipedia, copyright is automatically assumed as soon as any content (text or other media) is created in a physical form. An author does not need to apply for or claim copyright, for a copyright to exist.
Only one of the following allows works to be reused in Wikimedia projects:
A) Explicit Statement. An explicit statement (by the author, or by the holder of the rights to the work) that the material is either:
- in the public domain,
- licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA), or
- otherwise compatible with CC-BY-SA.
B) Public Domain. If the work is inherently in the public domain, due to its age, source or lack of originality; or
C) Fair Use. United States law allows for fair use of copyrighted content, and (within limits) Wikipedia does as well. Under guidelines for non-free content, brief selections of copyrighted text may be used, but only if clearly marked and with full attribution.
Even if a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, material should be properly attributed in accordance with Wikipedia:Plagiarism in respect of local customs and attribution requirements of compatible licenses. If the terms of the compatible license are not met, use of the content can constitute a violation of copyright even if the license is compatible.
Repeated copyright violations
Contributors who repeatedly post copyrighted text or images may be subject to contributor copyright investigations, to ensure the removal from the project of all copyright infringement. Contributors who repeatedly post copyrighted material after appropriate warnings will be blocked from editing, to protect the project; see 17 United States Code § 512.
Instructions for dealing with text-based copyright concerns
Blatant infringement
Pages exhibiting blatant copyright infringements may be speedily deleted if:
- Content was copied from a source which does not have a license compatible with Wikipedia, and was not copied from a mirror source.
- The page can neither be restored to a previous revision without infringing content, nor would the page be viable if the infringing content were removed.
- There is no credible assertion of public domain, fair use, or a free license.
To nominate an article for speedy deletion for copyright concerns, add one of these to the page:
{{db-copyvio|url=insert URL of source here}}
{{db-copyvio|describe non-web source here}}
Both of these templates will generate a notice that you should give the contributor of the content. This is important to help ensure that they do not continue to add copyrighted content to Wikipedia. An administrator will examine the article and decide whether to delete it or not. You should not blank the page in this instance.
Suspected or complicated infringement
If infringement is not blatant or the speedy deletion criteria do not apply:
- Remove or rewrite the infringing text avoiding copyright violations or revert the page to before the text was added.
- The infringing text will remain in the page history, and it may be tagged for {{copyvio-revdel}}. Administrators hold discretion on the appropriateness of revision deletion for each case. Please note the reason for removal in the edit summary and at the article's talk page (you may wish to use {{subst:cclean}}). Please identify and alert the contributor of the material to the problem, unless advised not to. The template {{Uw-copyright}} may be used for this purpose.
- However, if all revisions have copyright problems, the removal of the copyright problem is contested, reversion/removal is otherwise complicated, or the article is eligible for presumptive deletion:
- Place one of the following above the infringing text:
{{subst:copyvio|url=insert URL here}}
{{subst:copyvio|identify non-web source here}}
- Optionally place
{{subst:Copyvio/bottom}}
below if only some of the article infringes.
- Go to today's section and add:
{{subst:article-cv|PageName}}
from [insert URL or identify non-web source here] ~~~~
- to the bottom of the list. Put the page's name in place of "PageName". If you do not have a URL, enter a description of the source. (This text can be copied from the top of the template after substituting it and the page name and url will be filled for you.) If there is not already a page for the day, as yours would be the first listing, please add a header to the top of the page using the page for another date as an example.
- Advise the contributor of the listing at their talk page. The template on the now blanked page supplies a notice you may use for that purpose.
Instructions for special cases
- Probable copyvios without a known source: If you suspect that a page contains a copyright violation, but you cannot find a source for the violation (so you can't be sure that it's a violation), do not list it here. Instead, place
{{cv-unsure|~~~|2=FULL_URL}}
on the page's talk page, but replace FULL_URL with the full URL of the page version that you believe contains a violation. (To determine the URL, click on "Permanent link" in the toolbox area, and copy the URL.) - One contributor has verifiably introduced copyright problems into multiple pages or files and assistance is needed in further review: See Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations.
Instructions for handling image copyright concerns
Image copyright concerns are not handled on this board. For images that are clear copyright violations, follow the procedure for speedy deletion; otherwise list at Files for Discussion. To request assistance with contributors who have infringed copyright in multiple articles or files, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations.
Responding to articles listed for copyright investigation
Any contributor is welcome to help investigate articles listed for copyright concerns, although only administrators, copyright problems board clerks, and VRT (formerly OTRS) agents should remove {{copyvio}} tags and mark listings resolved.
Assistance might include supplying evidence of non-infringement (or, conversely, of infringement) or obtaining and verifying permission of license. You might also help by rewriting problematic articles or removing infringing text (without removing {{copyvio}}).
Supplying evidence of non-infringement
Articles listed here are suspect of copyright concern, but not every article contains infringement. The content may be on Wikipedia first, in the public domain, compatibly licensed, or falls below threshold of originality for copyright. Sometimes, the person who placed it here is the copyright owner of freely-licensed material and this simply needs to be verified.
Information can be provided to prove compatible licensing or public domain status under the listing of the article on the copyright problems board or on the talk page of the article. A link or a clear explanation can be very helpful when a clerk or administrator evaluates the matter. As listings are not immediately addressed on the board, it may take a few days after you make your note before a response is provided.
If the article is tagged for {{copyvio}}, you should allow an administrator or copyright problems clerk to remove the tag. If the article is tagged for {{copy-paste}} or {{close paraphrasing}}, you may remove the tag from the article when the problem is addressed (or disproven), but please do not close the listing on the copyright problems board itself.
Obtaining/verifying permission
Sometimes material was placed on Wikipedia with the permission of the copyright owner. Sometimes copyright owners are willing to give permission (and proper license!) even if it was not.
Any contributor can write to the owner of copyright and check whether they gave or will give permission (or maybe they in fact posted it here!). See Wikipedia:Example requests for permission. In either case, unless a statement authorizing the material under compatible license is placed online at the point of original publication, permission will need to be confirmed through e-mail to the Wikimedia Foundation. See Wikipedia:Confirmation of permission. If a compatible license is placed online at the point of original publication, please provide a link to that under the listing for the article on the copyright problems board or on the talk page of the article.
Please note that it may take a few days for letters to clear once they are sent. Do not worry if the content is deleted prematurely; it can be restored at any point usable permission is logged.
Rewriting content
Any contributor may rewrite articles that are or seem to be copyight problems to exclude duplicated or closely paraphrased text. When articles or sections of articles are blanked as copyright problems, rewriting is done on a temporary page at Talk:PAGENAME/Temp so that the new material can be copied over the old. (The template blanking the article will link to the specific temporary page.)
Please do not copy over the version of the article that is a copyright problem as your base. All copied content, or material derived from it, should be removed first. Other content from the article can be used, if there is no reason to believe that it may be a copyright issue as well. It is often a good idea – and essential when the content is copied from an inaccessible source such as a book – to locate the point where the material entered the article and eliminate all text added by that contributor. This will help avoid inadvertently continuing the copyright issues in your rewrite. If you use any text at all from the earlier version of the article, please leave a note on the listing to alert the administrator or clerk who review the rewrite. The history of the old article will then have to be retained. (If the original turns out to be non-infringing, the two versions of the article can be merged.)
Rewrites can be done directly in articles that have been tagged for {{close paraphrasing}} and {{copy-paste}}, with those tags removed after the rewrite is complete.
Please review Wikipedia:Copy-paste and the linked guidelines and policies within it if necessary to review Wikipedia's practices for handling non-free text. Reviewing Wikipedia:Plagiarism is also helpful, particularly where content is compatibly licensed or public domain. Repairing these issues can sometimes be as simple as supplying proper attribution.
Copyright owners who submitted their own work to Wikipedia (or people editing on their behalf)
If you submitted work to Wikipedia which you had previously published and your submission was marked as a potential infringement of copyright, then stating on the article's talk page that you are the copyright holder of the work (or acting as his or her agent), while not likely to prevent deletion, helps. To completely resolve copyright concerns, it is sufficient to either:
- Link to a note permitting reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 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.
Clerks and patrolling administrators
Copyright clerks
For a more complete description of clerks and their duties, as well as a list of active clerks, please see Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Clerks.
Copyright clerks are experienced editors on Wikipedia who are familiar with copyright and non-free content policies and its enforcement. They are trusted to evaluate and close listings and request administrative actions when necessary. Clerks are periodically reviewed by other clerks and patrolling administrators.
Copyright problems board administrators
For a more complete description of administrators on Wikipedia, please see Wikipedia:Administrators.
Any administrator may work the copyright problems board. 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 can be processed at any time by anyone, but are not formally closed until a clerk or administrator verifies that all problems are resolved. Pages listed for presumptive deletion stay open for a minimum of 7 days before being processed. VRT agents may close listings at any time.
For advice for resolving listings, see:
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Advice for admins (VRT agents, see section there)
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Advice for clerks
{{CPC}} may be used to denote resolutions of listings by administrators, clerks and VRT agents.
Listings of possible copyright problems
Older than 7 days
- Suspected copyright infringements without a source from October 2013 to May 2014
- Chʼortiʼ language (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. I cleaned what I could find by manually checking most of the prose, but Earwig being out of Google credits makes it difficult. – Isochrone (talk) 22:36, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- Cricket dolls (history · last edit · rewrite)
No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. – Isochrone (talk) 17:00, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- Mih jeans (history · last edit · rewrite)
Already rewritten. No infringing content remains. – Isochrone (talk) 22:53, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- Burzio's generalization (history · last edit · rewrite)
No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. I found some small fragments but the sheer magnitude of this article makes it impossible to find anything definitive. – Isochrone (talk) 17:06, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- Business process automation (history · last edit · rewrite)
No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. – Isochrone (talk) 23:04, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- Consumer Technology Association (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. – Isochrone (talk) 17:15, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. – Isochrone (talk) 16:57, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- Oral History of British Science (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Aeroflot Flight 99 (history · last edit · rewrite)
Already rewritten. No infringing content remains. – Isochrone (talk) 22:52, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- Nuzha Nuseibeh (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Jeremy Rifkin (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Uskok War (history · last edit · rewrite)
End. MER-C 18:40, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
- Louisiana State University (history · last edit · rewrite) from multiple sources, including this, this, this, and this, but it is very likely that there are more, and these issues are longstanding. Have also posted a CCI request. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:04, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
- Columbia University (history · last edit · rewrite) from multiple sources, some outlined in this GAR but it is very likely that there are more, and these issues are longstanding. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:22, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
- Triumphal arches for the arrival of Isabel II to Seville (history · last edit · rewrite) Old Vvven creation I haven't been able to find a source for GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 04:17, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 16:37, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Roman bridge of Ávila (history · last edit · rewrite) Another old Vvven creation that doesn't appear to be a translation of the esWiki article. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 04:22, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 16:37, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Party for Freedom (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/amerikaanse-suikeroom-geert-wilders . As the source is paywalled, I can't prove this section has been copied. However, this contributor has inserted copyrighted texts into numerous other articles GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 02:17, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
- Yandex (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/nederlandse-yandex-dochter-levert-rusland-surveillance-software . Same as above, though this time I can show the first few lines appear in this source: https://www.ftm.nl/tag/toloka-ai , which the website likely re-uses throughout their own content. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 02:17, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
- Draft:Islam and Arabic language (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://archive.org/stream/WorldReligionsAndIslam.ACriticalStudyVol.1ByHamidNaseemRafiabadi/World%20Religions%20and%20Islam.%20A%20Critical%20Study%20%2C%20vol.1%20by%20Hamid%20Naseem%20Rafiabadi_djvu.txt. — Diannaa (talk) 13:50, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
- The book is not directly copied here but rather than summarized. 202.134.9.136 (talk) 15:18, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted for a reason other than copyright concerns. MER-C 15:35, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- Phoenician settlement of North Africa (history · last edit · rewrite) from {{{http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Talk:Phoenician_settlement_of_North_Africa}}} I've added examples of the extensive copying of tesxt from soureces with the lightest of edits to the talk page. 2001:8F8:1B69:1AFD:30A9:6768:87CA:4A82 (talk) 08:52, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- There's not enough to justify the tag, and User:Skitash made changes to the article. I removed the tag. I hope you don't add it back. Also as I noted on the RPP, further investigation into your claim is welcome. Until you can prove extensive copy/paste that justifies the tag please don't add it back. el.ziade (talkallam) 18:13, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- Also, based on the examples provided on the talk page (all of which have been addressed by Skitash), it seems that the copied passages are short and have been cited. Since the copied material is properly attributed and linked to its original sources, it does not constitute a copyright violation. I do not think it's justified to tag the article with a copyvio. el.ziade (talkallam) 18:25, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- On top of that, copyvio tool indicates that there's a less than 5% similarity and I've already changed and reworded content the IP hopper showed concern about, so their argument lacks merit. They are either deliberately pretending to not see it or refusing to acknowledge it by continuing to edit war. It's perplexing that they opted for a full copyright investigation over a few similar-sounding sentences rather than trying to improve the article. My best guess is that this is just another petty excuse the IP hopper is using to continue harassing me as they have done on my talk page.[1][2] Skitash (talk) 11:06, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- All that proves is that copyvio tool is pretty useless. 2001:8F8:1DDA:A9B6:17CC:E045:8086:7B37 (talk) 11:27, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- On top of that, copyvio tool indicates that there's a less than 5% similarity and I've already changed and reworded content the IP hopper showed concern about, so their argument lacks merit. They are either deliberately pretending to not see it or refusing to acknowledge it by continuing to edit war. It's perplexing that they opted for a full copyright investigation over a few similar-sounding sentences rather than trying to improve the article. My best guess is that this is just another petty excuse the IP hopper is using to continue harassing me as they have done on my talk page.[1][2] Skitash (talk) 11:06, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- Also, based on the examples provided on the talk page (all of which have been addressed by Skitash), it seems that the copied passages are short and have been cited. Since the copied material is properly attributed and linked to its original sources, it does not constitute a copyright violation. I do not think it's justified to tag the article with a copyvio. el.ziade (talkallam) 18:25, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- There's not enough to justify the tag, and User:Skitash made changes to the article. I removed the tag. I hope you don't add it back. Also as I noted on the RPP, further investigation into your claim is welcome. Until you can prove extensive copy/paste that justifies the tag please don't add it back. el.ziade (talkallam) 18:13, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- Ghulam Hassan Sofi (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20120324054246/http://www.groundreport.com/Arts_and_Culture/Melody-king-of-Kashmir-Ghulam-Hassan-Sofi-remember_2/2911690. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:26, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
- Tagged for SD. If you reply here, please ping me. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 17:57, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
No copyright concern. Material is PD, license compatible, or ineligible for copyright protection. MER-C 11:02, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
- Teaneck, New Jersey (history · last edit · rewrite) from here Nikkimaria (talk) 18:28, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
- Lance Bruner (history · last edit · rewrite) (Apologies for this unskilled messy entry, based only on some manual searching for phrases.) The article seems to be copied from a CC-BY-SA fandom.com article created the day before[3], with very light paraphrasing and without attribution. The fandom.com article may be copied from a gamespot.com one[4] - I can't see which is first - and ours might have been. The two sentences that make the second paragraph of our article are very lightly paraphrased from a 2022 cbr.com article.[5] I don't know if some sort of retro-attribution to fandom.com would be proper, or if the whole article should go as plagiarising that and/or gamespot.com - if that's the original. The only citations are to one issue of a comic. NebY (talk) 22:59, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
- Draft:Titles (history · last edit · rewrite) from [6]. Flagged by copypatrol, see [7]. Source link is dead, with no archive available on archive.org. See iThenticate report for source text. Sending to CP since I'm not familiar with Korean ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 01:57, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
- Economy of Tamil Nadu (history · last edit · rewrite) from 1. A. K, M. V. The Dravidian Model: Interpreting the Political Economy of Tamil Nadu. Cambridge University Press; 2021.
- Accessible via TWL: http://www-cambridge-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/core/books/the-dravidian-model/48F62283E95BC93C03EE0498EA9DA6A2. Recent addition seems to be nearly entirely copied/closely paraphrased from this book. Initially flagged by copypatrol, see [8] ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 02:53, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
- User:Karoosa/sandbox (history · last edit · rewrite) I'm pretty sure this is copied from another wiki, but I found no attribution and don't know from which one. Nobody (talk) 07:53, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted for a reason other than copyright concerns. MER-C 16:27, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
- Man on the Hill (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/g2008n2a2.pdf. Beginning of "Locality and Age" section copied. mwwv converse∫edits 12:07, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted for a reason other than copyright concerns. MER-C 11:03, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- Nordweststadt (Karlsruhe) (history · last edit · rewrite) So, our new page appears to be translated from the German article de:Nordweststadt (Karlsruhe), which is simple enough to deal with, but (in what I'm like, 90% sure is a BACKWARDSCOPY) that German article closely matches part of some random locksmith's website [9]. My German is truly atrocious though, so I was hoping someone else could verify that. Alpha3031 (t • c) 15:00, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
Backwardscopy. Tag placed at talk page. – dudhhr talkcontribssheher 21:42, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
- Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2002 (history · last edit · rewrite) from here. I did some work on January and February but there's too many other reports at CopyPatrol for me to carry on to the end of the article at this time. — Diannaa (talk) 22:14, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
- Elez Isufi (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from CheddarB23. confirmed copyvio from this book, and I believe the other books were likely copied from as well GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 22:30, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 11:04, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- Full arch restoration (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://uniqa.dental/articles/full-arch-dental-implants-protocols-and-techniques. Alpha3031 (t • c) 15:29, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
- This is likely spam, and I wouldn't be surprised if it weren't from Wikibusines. MER-C 17:18, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- Induced stem cells (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from 20240516. Nearly all material has been added by 20240516, and they were the creator. Article cites over 300 sources, incl, paywalled, and they regularly copied from news reports they didn't cite, cited material to the wrong source, and just made stuff up. Sorry for turning it over here, but this thing just needs stubbed or deleted. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 20:13, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 11:08, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- Draft:Alan Pemberton (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/alan-pemberton. — Diannaa (talk) 20:20, 23 May 2024 (UTC) Adding: Everipedia is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License so I have added attribution for that. But the editor states that some material was copied from from these two pages: https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2022.10.31.php and https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2020.01.07.php. These are not compatibly licensed. — Diannaa (talk) 12:37, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
- World Environment Day (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.health.gov.bb/event/86. JLCop (talk) 09:36, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
- Maram (drum) (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. No other major contributors, one offline source GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 02:27, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Salsa roja (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. No other significant contributors, book sources GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 02:42, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Huevos a la mexicana (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. Subject not in book listed, no other significant contributors GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 03:01, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Jhallari (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. Cited to a biography that doesn't mention half the cited facts. Given the pre-established pattern of falsifying sources and the lack of any other significant contributors, I am flagging this for presumptive deletion GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 03:06, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Geger (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. No other significant contributors, book source GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 03:18, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Corrido (Spain) (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. Book sources, no other significant contributors GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 03:24, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Pastel azteca (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. Book citation, approx 60% authorship (but the other half is unsourced) GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 03:32, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Ekkalam (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. No other significant contributors, book source GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 03:37, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test Controversy (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.news9live.com/education-career/entrance-exams/explained-know-about-neet-cheating-scam-unearthed-at-gujarat-bihar-2533903. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 10:47, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Curb Safe Charmer: Believe I tidied this up by chance before the tag, and it just needs a revdel considered? Mdann52 (talk) 13:50, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Timeline of the flag of Australia (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.anfa-national.org.au/history-of-our-flag/. — Diannaa (talk) 13:23, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- I'm sorry about this. I must admit that I did use that website as a source. But I thought I paraphrased it all pretty well. Robbiegibbons (talk) 02:28, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- Why don't I go ahead and reinstate the text and cite additional sources? Robbiegibbons (talk) 03:30, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Robbiegibbons: The content that matches the source website needs to be removed or re-worded. Adding additional sources won't help. — Diannaa (talk) 21:33, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
Libyan genocide (history · last edit · rewrite) from "Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History" by Ali Abdullatif Ahmida (Routledge, 2021) [10]
Sections with issues are as follows:
Lead, paragraph 3: almost entirely verbatim from p.3 and p. 62
Lead, paragraph 4: Sentence 4 ("The history that Libyans recorded...") from preface
Lead, paragraph 4: Sentence 5 ( "As a result, Italian colonization and atrocities...") from p. 29
The issues above have been present since the very first version of the article, created on 10 December 2023 by Skitash (talk · contribs). Diff: [11]
Next is the "Etymology" section, which was added by the same user on 11 December 2023, much of which is a very close paraphrase of p. 98. Diff: [12]
Previously, Skitash had to reword the "Links to the Holocaust" section as it was a close paraphrase of the cited Middle East Eye article: [13], which they had added on 11 December 2023 [14] in the same edit as the above "Etymology" section edit. They have also been warned on 18 June 2023 [15] and on 2 December 2023 [16] for copyright violations on other articles.
The second user who has seemingly added copyright violating content is Mohammed Al-Keesh (talk · contribs), on 20 March 2024 [17] [18].
In the "Death Camps" section, the entire third paragraph ("Braiga concentration camp...") and most of the sixth ("Magrun camp interned...") is a direct copy from p. 42, p. 46, and p. 92. The first sentence of the first paragraph ("The colonial state spent...") is plagiarised from p. 60. There's also some copying of shorter phrases in the first, fourth, fifth, and seventh paragraphs.
He added the entire unsourced "Death Marches" section in the same edit, where most of the first sentence of the second paragraph ("One of the most documented is...") is copied from p. 62. The image included and uploaded by the user is also copied from the same text, p. 66, as evidenced by the figure caption included in the image.
Additionally, in the "Genocide" section, the fourth paragraph ("The intentional killing of cattle...") is entirely copied from p. 85, except for the first sentence.
In total, I count that around 400 words of the ~2.2k word article is blatant copying or close paraphrasing. I have removed the offending content in this edit [19] Meluiel (talk) 17:25, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
- History of Florida International University (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from SeminoleNation. Confirmed vio from [20] & [21]; nearly all text was written by SeminoleNation GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 07:16, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 15:33, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- The Iddi Basajjabalaba Memorial Library (history · last edit · rewrite) from [22]. NotAGenious (talk) 14:24, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Totally forgot to mark it as cleaned. The4lines |||| (Talk) (Contributions) 03:28, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- Vocational rehabilitation (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://vra-uk.org/node/6. SomeoneDreaming (talk) 20:06, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
- So, the original article in 2012 after it got changed from the redirect was a copy of the linked above page from Vocational Rehabilitation Association UK. It was cited, but the content was entirely copypasted from there. The only edit history of the editor who did that is the creation of that article; their account is now redlinked. There is plenty of good content that has since been added by other editors, and I don't want that to get lost. But I'm not sure what is the best strategy when the whole thing is built on copyvio. I can work on rewriting it (not today) to remove the problematic content or at least paraphrase. But I'm not sure what to do about the page revisions since every revision has copyrighted material in it. Hoping someone with more experience can help. I only caught it because I was looking at the citations to add some more information/generally improve the article after merging. SomeoneDreaming (talk) 20:12, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
- I created the rewrite page and just removed the copyvio. Could be re-added as paraphrase, but honestly I think the whole lead needs work. SomeoneDreaming (talk) 16:16, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- @SomeoneDreaming: Are you fine with possibly moving it to mainspace now to get more eyes on reworking the content? We'll double check for copyvio of course. Sennecaster (Chat) 06:28, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, I'm cool with that. I'm just not sure how to handle revdel? SomeoneDreaming (talk) 17:06, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- @SomeoneDreaming: Are you fine with possibly moving it to mainspace now to get more eyes on reworking the content? We'll double check for copyvio of course. Sennecaster (Chat) 06:28, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- I created the rewrite page and just removed the copyvio. Could be re-added as paraphrase, but honestly I think the whole lead needs work. SomeoneDreaming (talk) 16:16, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- Nugent, Tasmania (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.ourtasmania.com.au/hobart/nugent.html. Mrfoogles (talk) 16:33, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
- Inconclusive because it is more likely the page predates the source but I've removed it as unsourced. MER-C 10:54, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
- Levantine archaeology (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/emeyers. Angegane (talk) 20:45, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
- This section was originally migrated from Historicity of the Bible at this edit, and the plagiarism at that article originates with this edit. Angegane (talk) 20:52, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
- 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/usmc/1-3.htm. SomeoneDreaming (talk) 01:48, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
- Created in 2006 and copied almost entirely from the linked source. A lot of people have worked on this article since, but it would be difficult to redo without copied material since it was built around it. Not sure what the best next steps are which is why I'm listing it. SomeoneDreaming (talk) 01:50, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
- Jahangir Zeynalov (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.anl.az/down/meqale/kaspi/2015/sentyabr/456153.htm . Translation vio, I've blocked the editor indefinitely and referred them to CCI. MER-C 11:30, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
- Manila Hotel (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9503E2DB1739F934A35752C1A964948260. Somehow, this got past GA review. ⸺RandomStaplers 02:54, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. The4lines |||| (Talk) (Contributions) 19:05, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- Columbia University (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!20526~!0#focus. This contributor has had an investigation opened against them.⸺RandomStaplers 05:18, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
- Lou Gehrig (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&oldid=1234612847&action=compare&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmoregehrig.tripod.com%2Fid12.html. Copyvio by an IP committed on March 16th, 2014.⸺RandomStaplers 05:40, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
- Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory (history · last edit · rewrite) from web
.archive .org /web /20090225100506 /http: //www .ldeo .columbia .edu /research /seismology-geology-tectonophysics. Most of this articles words were made in this diff, so it is not salvagable, and has been rolled back.⸺RandomStaplers 03:51, 18 July 2024 (UTC) Article cleaned, revision deletion requested. – Isochrone (talk) 19:53, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
Revision deletion completed. – Isochrone (talk) 21:57, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- Draft:Peter Sonski 2024 Presidential Campaign (history · last edit · rewrite) from <https://www.petersonski.com/vision>, <https://www.petersonski.com/Lauren-Onak>, <https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2023/06/peter-sonski-chosen-as-american-solidarity-presidential-nominee-on-first-ballot/>. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 03:55, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
Article deleted for a reason other than copyright concerns. – Isochrone (talk) 01:12, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
- Peter Sonski 2024 Presidential Campaign (history · last edit · rewrite) from <https://www.petersonski.com/vision>, <https://www.petersonski.com/Lauren-Onak>, <https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2023/06/peter-sonski-chosen-as-american-solidarity-presidential-nominee-on-first-ballot/>. More or less the same as the above listing. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 03:55, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned, revision deletion requested. – Isochrone (talk) 21:56, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- Bronx River (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://cpw.state.co.us/learn/Pages/RA-Fish-Barrier-Studies.aspx. Straight copy paste, no modifications, on April 16, 2022. Contributor will be notified.⸺RandomStaplers 04:55, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
- Also, for anyone wondering, it's not federal, so it's not PD.⸺RandomStaplers 04:57, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
- I've found two sources to begin a rewrite.⸺RandomStaplers 00:34, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- The rewrite is ready for insertion, unless anyone has any problems, in which case, feel free to edit. I think it's good enough for now.⸺(Random)staplers 23:48, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Randomstaplers: Feel free to copy it over. You're the only contributor so there's no need for attribution, and then you can request G6/G7 for the temp page. Sennecaster (Chat) 07:04, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Sennecaster Incorporated. Requesting G6 delete and rev-delete.⸺(Random)staplers 20:40, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Randomstaplers: Feel free to copy it over. You're the only contributor so there's no need for attribution, and then you can request G6/G7 for the temp page. Sennecaster (Chat) 07:04, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- The rewrite is ready for insertion, unless anyone has any problems, in which case, feel free to edit. I think it's good enough for now.⸺(Random)staplers 23:48, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- Somnox Sleep Robot (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.thecherawchronicle.com/dutch-company-somnox-introduces-the-second-version-of-the-sleeping-robot-for-549-euros-picture-and-sound-news/. Mrfoogles (talk) 17:31, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned, revision deletion requested. The4lines |||| (Talk) (Contributions) 01:47, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
- Asado (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/asado. Fibre H. Bundle (talk) 16:00, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
- Agriculture in the United States (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.agriculture.com/farm-management/farm-land/as-foreign-investment-in-us-farmland-grows-efforts-to-ban-and-limit-the. ⸺RandomStaplers 18:30, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. The4lines |||| (Talk) (Contributions) 01:27, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
- Agricultural safety and health (history · last edit · rewrite) from extension
.psu .edu /farm-respiratory-hazards And wow, this copyvio was caused by a student editor. ⸺RandomStaplers 19:19, 19 July 2024 (UTC) - By the way, I believe it's been cleaned, but feel free to double check.⸺RandomStaplers 19:20, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
- Cleaned by an administrator.⸺RandomStaplers 17:53, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. The4lines |||| (Talk) (Contributions) 01:20, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
- Occupational injury (history · last edit · rewrite) from www
.constructionbriefing .com /news /exoskeletons-will-they-become-a-more-common-sight-on-construction-sites- /8028048 .article. Caught this one early. ⸺RandomStaplers 07:18, 20 July 2024 (UTC) - That was User:Persmas24, who had previously added poor content (that I had removed on editorial grounds) at Construction site safety, but that I now see was also a case of copyvio. I rev-del'ed both of those edits. This editor identifies as being a NIOSH-employed writer. Looking at this and the next entry (an editor who is Wikipedian-in-Residence at NIOSH) together, wonder if there there is something more centrally wrong there. DMacks (talk) 15:42, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- Confirmed: Cleaned.⸺RandomStaplers 17:58, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- Construction site safety (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304195662. AND https://web.archive.org/web/20210921151917/https://loginets.com/en/download-free-site-induction-template/ ⸺RandomStaplers 07:38, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- The researchgate source is CC-NC-ND. The relevant article content is (as Randomstaplers noted) the entirety of the "Hong Kong" section. It was added in this edit by User:John P. Sadowski (NIOSH), whom I notified. That edit was on 15 December 2018, so that would be a lot of rev-del. But at least that source appears contained to that section, so it would simply mean excising and RD, rather than having to roll the whole article back to prior to that time. DMacks (talk) 15:38, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- I didn't personally add the text, as my edit was a reorganization edit moving paragraphs around without changing them. It looks like this diff is the original addition. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 05:26, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hi User:John P. Sadowski (NIOSH), thanks for finding those details and digging into the history! That edit was from User:123456yaa, a hit'n'run editor on October 26, 2018. DMacks (talk) 00:06, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- I didn't personally add the text, as my edit was a reorganization edit moving paragraphs around without changing them. It looks like this diff is the original addition. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 05:26, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- The loginets content was added in this edit on 21 October 2021 by User:VeeraHuo, who was only briefly active and not recently. The edit added another sentence with a different cite, and that other sentence does not appear in either cite. Would be easy to excise. Is it worth rev-del'ing almost 3 years of edits for one sentence? Their other contribution is substantial content cited to multiple and diverse refs. Spot-checking, the contribution does seem to be supported by but not copied from them. So that places me more firmly in the "simply remove the one sentence from construction site safety" and take no further action based on that edit. DMacks (talk) 16:00, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- The researchgate source is CC-NC-ND. The relevant article content is (as Randomstaplers noted) the entirety of the "Hong Kong" section. It was added in this edit by User:John P. Sadowski (NIOSH), whom I notified. That edit was on 15 December 2018, so that would be a lot of rev-del. But at least that source appears contained to that section, so it would simply mean excising and RD, rather than having to roll the whole article back to prior to that time. DMacks (talk) 15:38, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- List of Batang Quiapo episodes (history · last edit · rewrite). So sorry to have to report that most if not all of the several hundred plot descriptions appear to be copyvio. Some are possibly from www.themoviedb.org/tv/215803-batang-quiapo/season/1/episode/75; this might be a Wikipedia mirror. Examples of other urls include https://ent.abs-cbn.com/batangquiapo/videos/tanggol-iginiit-na-mabuting-tao-si-bubbles-353446, https://ent.abs-cbn.com/batangquiapo/videos/augustus-tinakot-si-amanda-tungkol-kay-primo-350520. The article was created on April 24, 2023, with content brought over from Batang Quiapo (TV series). — Diannaa (talk) 21:23, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
The text is nearly identical to the one at https://www.martinmariettacenter.com/venues . Our version of the text is dated 2 March 2023. The internet archive one is of 24 March 2023. All major changes were made by IP users, so there is no easy way to ask questions. The text (and sites) have long histories, so it is possible that the same person was maintaining both. Earlier sites of the same venue are http://www.progressenergycenter.com/ , http://www.dukeenergycenterraleigh.com/ --Викидим (talk) 22:15, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- Cerro Bandera Formation (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286485377_Stratigraphy_and_vertebrates_Aves_and_Mammalia_from_the_Cerro_Bandera_Formation_Early_Miocene_of_Neuquen_Province_Argentina. Elriana (talk) 09:39, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Nerve compression syndrome (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK230871/. CursedWithTheAbilityToDoTheMath (talk) 02:36, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- Jerry Sadler (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://cemetery.tspb.texas.gov/pub/user_form.asp?pers_id=2480. — Diannaa (talk) 19:22, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Draft:Hospitium of the Grey Friars, Inverkeithing (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://canmore.org.uk/site/50940/inverkeithing-queen-street-friary-and-museum https://fifehistoricbuildings.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Inverkeithing-Friary-project-summary-Mar-22.pdf. Foundational. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:49, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
- Jacir (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.jacirmovie.com/. Jmg38 (talk) 18:58, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- Copying directly from promotional / official web page allowed? Let me know at my Talk page, and I will remove this request and the notification posting I made to the IPAddress-editor's Talk page. Jmg38 (talk) 19:03, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- Ein Gedi synagogue (history · last edit · rewrite) from multiple sources. Richard Nevell (talk) 22:26, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- Sections were copied from https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/27123172.pdf which have since been deleted. It appears that copying or at least close paraphrasing from https://www.jstor.org/stable/23593132 Google Translate struggles with the text, but there are similarities. Given the editor's history with copyvio I have nominated the article for presumptive deletion. Richard Nevell (talk) 22:26, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
ESO 0313-192 (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://esahubble.org/images/potw1604a/. {{CC-notice}} was used, but I don't see any CC license on the ESA's copyright page: https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA_Publications/Copyright ⸺(Random)staplers 02:40, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
- Never mind, found it. I'll put the text release info on the talk page: https://esahubble.org/copyright/ ⸺(Random)staplers 02:56, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
- Also, the license is BY-4, not BY-SA-4. Probably should be more careful next time.⸺(Random)staplers 03:02, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
- Never mind, found it. I'll put the text release info on the talk page: https://esahubble.org/copyright/ ⸺(Random)staplers 02:56, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
- Hurvat Zmimrah (history · last edit · rewrite). Richard Nevell (talk) 19:47, 21 August 2024 (UTC)
- Only offline sources are cited. Created by a user subject of a CCI and copyvio from these sources is possible. Richard Nevell (talk) 19:47, 21 August 2024 (UTC)
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