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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.

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

    Handling previously published text on Wikipedia

    Further information: Wikipedia:Copy-paste

    Under the United States law that governs Wikipedia, copyright is automatically assumed as soon as any content (text or other media) is created in a physical form. An author does not need to apply for or claim copyright, for a copyright to exist.

    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:

    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

    "WP:CPI" redirects here. For the page that protects extremely high-risk templates, see Wikipedia:Cascade protected items.
    Shortcut

    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:

    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:
    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

    Further information: Wikipedia:Guide to image deletion

    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

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

    Any contributor is welcome to help investigate articles listed for copyright concerns, although only administrators, copyright 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)

    Shortcut

    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:

    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 times.

    For advice for resolving listings, see:

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

    Listings of possible copyright problems

    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.

    28 November 2015

    Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
    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)[reply]
    I had my suspicions, but my go-to source in cases like this is the internet archive and for once they had no copy of the page in question. Based on your comment though I'm starting to think that this is not going to be a case of we had it first. TomStar81 (Talk) 11:31, 28 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article deleted due to copyright concerns. --BethNaught (talk) 08:39, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Diannaa (talk) 21:56, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • [1]. That particular section was removed, though there is possibly more to be concerned about. MER-C 12:18, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Cleaned whatever was left to clean. Wizardman 16:07, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • Recreation is clean. MER-C 12:14, 22 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    7 December 2015

    Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:46, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    A substantial amount of text was added in 2006[2]. 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[3]. 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[4] and on the contributing editor's talk page[5]. 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)[reply]
    I apologize tremendously for the great delay here, NebY. We've got a massive backlog. I think that was a good catch, and it may never be possible to determine whether that text was published elsewhere first or here first, because what we have there is a case of COI. Note the name of the editor who added the bulk of that text. Then see this telling bit of text which was removed. (I checked that editorial to see if the text was from there; it's not.) What I like to do is look for the first substantive changes to text (which we see here) and then do a google search for the older text. That can help eliminate content that was copied from Wikipedia and find the older material. In that case, I found this, but can't date it. All I know is that it was in 2006. It's a small amount of text.
    I think the odds are good that his collaborator wrote this text, either on his behest or on her own impulse. That it has subsequently been embraced as official is undoubtable, but I wouldn't work to remove further close paraphrasing given the lack of any predating text. I wouldn't restore it, either. While I think that the odds are quite high that the author placed it here herself and thus was quite able to license it, I can't prove it. I think your actions there were the right ones. The safest thing to do is to rewrite the most egregious content.
    I'm going to archive today's listing without further action, but if you want to talk further about it, please feel free to drop by my talk page. I'm shamefully slow in responding these days, but I will get around to it! --Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:09, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    14 December 2015

    Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
    • Article redirected by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:29, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MER-C 04:54, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    15 December 2015

    Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:29, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:44, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:58, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • If you feel like watchlisting, Justlettersandnumbers, it might be a good idea. It was restored again and the copyright blanking undone. I've revdeleted and added an edit notice and am watchlisting myself, but more eyes could be useful. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:58, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you, MRG, and done! There are a lot of these, many of them still containing list content based on non-factual criteria – see, e.g., Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women. Do we have consensus that we do not host any part of such lists (I thought we did), or does this still need further discussion? It would perhaps help if WP:Copyright in lists were more than an essay – a guideline, or even policy? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 08:47, 10 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:03, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • The whole article is bad ([6]. Nuked. MER-C 12:24, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:04, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    5 January 2016

    Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others, the other one redirected. No remaining infringement. Revdelete requests added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:22, 12 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • 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 [7] and [8], 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)[reply]

    7 January 2016

    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:51, 21 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. This turned out to be the tip of an iceberg (of size as yet undetermined): CCI requested here. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:09, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:51, 21 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:21, 21 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Please kindly open the page again.

    11 January 2016

    Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
    • Well, I removed the text and requested revdeletion as RD1, blatant copyright violation. Let's see where that goes. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:29, 17 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:42, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    17 January 2016

    Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
    • John Philipps Kenyon (history · last edit · rewrite) from the Guardian obituary; the article itself states at the bottom that "The bulk of this article is from the obituary of John Kenyon written by John Miller. ©.Guardian Newspaper. January 15, 1996", which is born out by the style. Hchc2009 (talk) 07:30, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --James086Talk 14:16, 15 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --James086Talk 14:22, 15 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:34, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    19 January 2016

    Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
    • Viable rewrite proposed; rewrite on temp page can be used to replace problematic article. --Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 14:23, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Hey, MER-C, could I ask you to move this one into place, provided you don't see any problems with it? I'll probably then prod it, as this is just one person's neologism (max five cites on scholar, some of them apparently self-cites by the same author). Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:36, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Justlettersandnumbers: Self-promotion is a problem. Seeing that you're going to nominate it for deletion I've moved the rewrite over. MER-C 08:07, 12 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 14:23, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    20 January 2016

    Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
    • Karbonn (2015 film) (history · last edit · rewrite) from [9] and [10]. The "Production" section is, I believe, certainly copied, as the article was created on June 15 but the magzmumbai article was published on June 2. I can't tell when the newstadka source was written, however, so not sure where the content originated. /wiae /tlk 01:35, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:49, 8 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:49, 8 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Removed per WP:NOFULLTEXT. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:49, 8 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    27 January 2016

    Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MER-C 07:08, 26 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article deleted due to copyright concerns. --James086Talk 14:30, 15 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    6 February 2016

    Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
    Source checked. Page is now clear of any copyvio from gs.org page (which often violates copyright on the material it propagates too.) Buckshot06 (talk) 19:58, 30 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I found and removed another large chunk of copyvio. The whole article needs to be checked, as well as the edits of RabeaMalah. MER-C 04:29, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Best as I can see, there's none left in this article, but am doing a small CCI. The biggest issue I see is unattributed translation from ArWP. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:57, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Got it down to three articles and am out of time. Most issues are unattributed copy-pastes from other articles or translations from other languages, but there is also some blatant copyvio. Buckshot06 helped keep some of this from being worse by holding the line on sourcing. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:57, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I'll poke at this when I can, but if somebody wants to help out there are some tells: if the content is not particularly comprehensible English, it is likely a poor translation from another language Wikipedia. (It is also likely to have been unsourced and to be already gone.) If the content is properly formatted on arrival, it is probably copied from an English Wikipedia article without attribution, which needs repair. If it is polished English without sources, it is most likely copied from an external site. Country Studies has been copied without attribution many times, but so have fully reserved sources, and some of that content remains. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:54, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Remaining articles to be checked
    • Article deleted due to copyright concerns. --MLauba (Talk) 10:43, 26 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
      .
    • The article was an unattributed copy / paste from several articles from each branch of the military. Given the length of some of these lists, maintaining a copy in parallel makes no sense in the first place. Deleted as CSG#G6 after review. MLauba (Talk) 10:43, 26 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • Purged. Copyright problem removed from history. --MLauba (Talk) 09:10, 29 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
      - Reverted back to August 2012, revisions deleted. MLauba (Talk) 09:10, 29 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MER-C 04:29, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    7 February 2016

    Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
    • Article redirected to non-infringing article. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:27, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --James086Talk 14:02, 15 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:09, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --James086Talk 14:49, 15 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MER-C 11:58, 18 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MER-C 11:58, 18 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Same editor for this and the two immediately above... needs further investigation. MER-C 11:58, 18 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:27, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    8 February 2016

    Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

    10 February 2016

    Suspected copyright violations (bot reports)

    SCV for 2016-02-10 Edit

    2016-02-10 (Suspected copyright violations)
    • False positive. MER-C 08:14, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • False positive. MER-C 08:14, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Public domain content. MER-C 08:07, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Public domain content. MER-C 08:07, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Public domain content. MER-C 08:07, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Copyvio version deleted, recreation clean. MER-C 11:45, 15 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Compatibly licensed content. MER-C 08:07, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Redirected. MER-C 11:45, 15 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:02, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    12 February 2016

    Suspected copyright violations (bot reports)

    SCV for 2016-02-12 Edit

    2016-02-12 (Suspected copyright violations)
      • Article cleaned, still needs a history purge to remove original copyvio. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:21, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Has been done. Hut 8.5 22:33, 15 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Link is clearly a mirror. Added attribution to List of Naruto: Shippuden episodes (season 19) although I don't think that's the original source of the content. Hut 8.5 22:33, 15 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
      • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Mostly just recitation of career achievements and qualifications which is hard to rephrase anyway. Hut 8.5 22:33, 15 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • VUDA Park (edit, talk, history, links) — [www.vizaginfo.com/tour/vudapark.asp www.vizaginfo.com/tour/vudapark.asp]. CSBot reporting at 10:43, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
      • Cut and paste move fixed by investigator or others. Hut 8.5 22:33, 15 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

    14 February 2016

    Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:58, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:58, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:58, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:58, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    15 February 2016

    Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --James086Talk 03:12, 16 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:51, 17 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:51, 17 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:51, 17 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    16 February 2016

    Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
    • The history section was indeed public domain. The rest of the article was presumptively removed. MER-C 02:46, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:27, 6 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    17 February 2016

    Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --James086Talk 04:23, 16 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --James086Talk 07:14, 16 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    18 February 2016

    Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --James086Talk 07:39, 16 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MER-C 09:37, 16 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    19 February 2016

    Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
    Excessively long quotation removed. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:35, 6 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    22 February 2016

    Suspected copyright violations (bot reports)

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    ADMIN HELP: Is this version the same as was deleted prior in AfD (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kasai rex? The internet hits look like mirrors of that version, but hard to tell. CrowCaw 22:37, 6 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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    • Article deleted due to copyright concerns. --— Diannaa (talk) 22:33, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --— Diannaa (talk) 23:02, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article redirected to a non-infringing target. --— Diannaa (talk) 04:44, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    25 February 2016

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    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --— Diannaa (talk) 17:08, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:47, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article deleted due to copyright concerns. --— Diannaa (talk) 17:08, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MER-C 12:42, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    28 February 2016

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      • No copyright concern. False positive. Moved to draft space CrowCaw 17:35, 23 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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    Link is a mirror. To judge from comparable articles text is from United States presidential election, 2016, so I've added attribution for that. Hut 8.5 22:04, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Link is copying Wikipedia, added attribution. Hut 8.5 22:04, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
      • Cut and paste move, history merge requested or needed. Using G6 to make room for clean move. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:44, 29 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Link is a mirror of Draft:Robert Greenhill which was written by the same editor. No copyright concern. Hut 8.5 22:04, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Article content has been taken from [16]. Per the talk page this is CC-BY-SA. That link appears to have lifted a paragraph from the abstract of the linked paper, which I've removed as copyvio. Hut 8.5 22:04, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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    Should be an easy fix. I've removed the infringing content and requested revision deletion with {{copyvio-revdel}}. (Non-administrator comment) Mz7 (talk) 15:19, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Mz7 (talk) 02:39, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • OTRS permission seems plausible, but it's been hung up for some time. Deleting. Can be restored when/if process is complete. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:22, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    2 March 2016

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      • Article cleaned, still needs a history purge to remove original copyvio. /wiae /tlk 00:19, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Has been done. Hut 8.5 21:45, 25 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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    Olah Healthcare (history · last edit · rewrite) from www.olah-healthcare.com. Xender Lourdes (talk) 15:50, 2 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Edward Davis (automotive pioneer) (history · · Talk:Edward Davis (automotive pioneer)) from http://www.detroittransithistory.info/AroundDetroit/EdDavis.html. There seems to be a bigger problem here new report at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Copy and pasting copyrighted BeeCeePhoto --Moxy (talk) 19:22, 2 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:30, 27 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    4 March 2016

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    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MER-C 04:55, 11 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MER-C 12:30, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --— Diannaa (talk) 23:56, 30 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --— Diannaa (talk) 23:55, 30 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MER-C 12:35, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Left note on talk page. Close paraphrase of source. Article was part of an edit-thon. CrowCaw 16:49, 17 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Crow, I felt the degree of infringement in the initial version was excessive and not fixable by copy-editing, so I removed the offending parts. Something really needs to be done about these copyvio-a-thons. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:28, 21 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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    • The Grange, Broadhembury approximately 1,500 characters of text has been quoted in a single block from Catherine Larkin at Long Island University. The user who added it claims this is "perfectly proper". I have a differing opinion and believe this is to be an abuse of fair-use rationale. Discussion is on article talk page. Thank you, Jolly Ω Janner 05:24, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    This seems to have been resolved. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:28, 30 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:28, 30 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    8 March 2016

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    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:25, 17 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    16 March 2016

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    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MER-C 06:44, 2 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    20 March 2016

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    • Article deleted due to copyright concerns. Foundational copyvio. --— Diannaa (talk) 21:52, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    21 March 2016

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    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:28, 16 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:56, 17 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:56, 17 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    22 March 2016

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    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:18, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MER-C 12:16, 27 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Redirected. MER-C 12:16, 27 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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    Libyan genocide (history · last edit · rewrite) from "Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History" by Ali Abdullatif Ahmida (Routledge, 2021) [19]

    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: [20]

    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: [21]

    Previously, Skitash had to reword the "Links to the Holocaust" section as it was a close paraphrase of the cited Middle East Eye article: [22], which they had added on 11 December 2023 [23] in the same edit as the above "Etymology" section edit. They have also been warned on 18 June 2023 [24] and on 2 December 2023 [25] 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 [26] [27].

    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 [28] Meluiel (talk) 17:25, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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