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)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. – Isochrone (talk) 12:13, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
- 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)
No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. Sennecaster (Chat) 02:43, 27 August 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)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Sennecaster (Chat) 02:48, 27 August 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 {{{https://en.wikipedia.org/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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Central Mindanao University (history · last edit · rewrite) from [3]. Check all sources from the aforementioned website and all sources in the "linkages" section. The4lines |||| (Talk) (Contributions) 19:42, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- Raid on Grand Harbour (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://docer.tips/grub-street-cull-b-hurricanes-over-malta-june-1940-april-194.html. — Diannaa (talk) 22:45, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. — Diannaa (talk) 13:08, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- Draft:Tunnel Grammar Studio (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.experasoft.com/en/products/tgs/. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 11:13, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- Conservative Partnership Institute (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/22/inside-the-trump-plan-for-2025. — Diannaa (talk) 12:48, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. — Diannaa (talk) 11:09, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
- Draft:Maltese Black chicken (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/128751/farmers_hope_to_reverse_extinction_risk_of_maltese_black_chicken https://tvmnews.mt/en/news/efforts-to-save-the-maltese-black-hen/ https://tvmnews.mt/en/news/kif-bdiet-ir-razza-tat-tigiega-s-sewda-maltija/. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:54, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- Makassarese language (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://doczz.net/doc/1839949/makassarese--basa-mangkasara. — Diannaa (talk) 11:46, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- RFA Olna (A123) (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://historicalrfa.uk/rfa-olna-ship-information/. — Diannaa (talk) 19:04, 13 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)
Article cleaned, revision deletion requested. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 08:36, 27 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)
- Delete, all contributor. @Richard Nevell, for future reference, please link the CCI in question when requesting presumptive deletion. Sennecaster (Chat) 02:42, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
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- The Slave Route Project (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/dialogue/the-slave-route/ (the UNESCO website URL is not working anymore, but has been archived here, and here or on UNESCO's webarchive). NB: the creation of the article edit mentioned this URL as source, and this UNESCO webpage is for "personal, non-commercial use". Ruthven (msg) 08:12, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
- Soraya Tarzi (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1577&context=jiws.
Looks likethe copyvio definitely dates from the very first version of 07:39, 17 January 2007 by a user who did 38 edits and then stopped editing in 2007. The copyvio'd text has been adjusted quite a bit by later editors who didn't notice that the language style sounded suspiciously like an academic original writing rather than an encyclopedic summary. It would be good to put the sources that happen to be in the middle of copyvio'd sections on the talk page, whichI'll probably doI've done, so that they're available for reconstruction after the copyvio is handled. Boud (talk) 17:00, 23 August 2024 (UTC) (clarify and update Boud (talk) 17:12, 23 August 2024 (UTC)) (clarify 'definitely' is from the first version Boud (talk) 17:17, 23 August 2024 (UTC))
- Comment: simply delete the contested information. It is uneccessary to delete a highly notable article or even sections with otherwise good well referenced information simply because some other information in the article is contested. Nor is it necessary to break up the article with big templates. Simply remove the old copywright violation, and the problem is solved. If someone wish to reintroduce it, they will have to defend it then. --Aciram (talk) 22:08, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
- Janet Biggs (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.jbiggs.com/about. I stripped some recently-added promotional text out of the lead and didn't realise at that point that the text was from the artist's website. Looking at the article now, Earwig is still reporting 84% similarity to that page. My feeling is that this is a result of the same work names, venue names, press coverage details, but wanted to check here in case more should be removed. Thanks. Tacyarg (talk) 08:08, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
- Lyla in the Loop (history · last edit · rewrite) from [4]. don't know the exact website here, don't feel like playing the game rn NotAGenious (talk) 12:09, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
- Campus of the University of Southern California (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://fpm.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AMMA-Adaptive-Mitigation-Management-Approach.pdf. — Diannaa (talk) 14:25, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
- Bullacephalus (history · last edit · rewrite)from [5]. Sentences added by This user seems to be possibly copyright violation. For example, sentences in "Geological/paleoenvironmental information and historical information and discovery" section is copied from introduction of the paper. I haven't checked for all the sentences but it is quite possible that many of texts are directly copied from papers. User added those texts also uploaded this image[6] to commons from the paper, seems copyvio and in the way of deletion. Ta-tea-two-te-to (talk) 12:40, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
- Fetească neagră (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.wine-searcher.com/grape-2061-feteasca-neagra, https://zenodo.org/records/2640054 (WINE PRODUCTION FROM LOCAL VARIETIES OF GRAPES IN MICROWINERY CONDITIONS) Note the latter source is open-access under CC BY 4.0. ~~2NumForIce (speak|edits) 01:11, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
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