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This page is for listing and discussing possible copyright problems involving text on Wikipedia, including pages which are suspected to be copyright violations. Listings typically remain for at least five days before review and closure by a copyright problems clerk or administrator. During this time, interested contributors are invited to offer feedback about the problem at the relevant talk page, to propose revisions to the material, or to request copyright permission. After the listing period, a copyright problems board clerk or administrator will review the listing and take what further action may be necessary.

Pages listed for copyright review appear in the bottom section of the page. The top includes information for people who have copyright concerns about pages or images, for those whose pages have been tagged for concerns, for community volunteers who'd like to help resolve concerns and for the clerks and administrators who volunteer here.

If you believe a Wikipedia page has infringed on your copyright, please see special note below.

If a page you created has been marked as a copyright problem and you own copyright in the original publication (or have permission from the owner), please see this section.

Handling previously published text on Wikipedia

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

Only one of the following allows works to be reused in Wikimedia projects:

A) Explicit Statement. An explicit statement (by the author, or by the holder of the rights to the work) that the material is either:

• in the public domain,
• licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA), or
• otherwise compatible with CC-BY-SA.

B) Public Domain. If the work is inherently in the public domain, due to its age, source or lack of originality (such as Copyright-free logos); or

C) Fair Use. United States law allows for fair use of copyrighted content, and (within limits) Wikipedia does as well. Under guidelines for non-free content, brief selections of copyrighted text may be used, but only if clearly marked and with full attribution.

Even if a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, material should be properly attributed in accordance with Wikipedia:Plagiarism. This is not only a matter of respecting local custom. When content is under a license that is compatible with Wikipedia's license, proper attribution may be required. If the terms of the compatible license are not met, use of the content can constitute a violation of copyright even if the license is compatible.

Repeated copyright violations

Contributors who repeatedly post copyrighted material (text or images) may be subject to contributor copyright investigations, to help ensure the removal from the project of all copyrighted material posted in contravention of policy. Contributors who repeatedly post copyrighted material after appropriate warnings will be blocked from editing, to protect the project; see 17 United States Code § 512.

Backwards copying: when Wikipedia had (or may have had) it first

Shortcut: WP:BACKWARDSCOPY

In some instances, it is clear that two pieces of text (one on Wikipedia, and one elsewhere) are copies of each other, but not clear which piece is the original and which is the copy. "Compliant" sites that copy Wikipedia text note that they have done so, but not all of our re-users are compliant.

If you've found such a case, you might first check the discussion page to see if a note has been added to the top of the talk page to allay people's concerns. If not, you can look for clues. Do other pages in the other website copy other Wikipedia articles? Did the content show up on Wikipedia all in once piece, placed by a single editor? If you don't see good evidence that Wikipedia had it first, it's a good idea to bring it up for investigation. You might follow the Instructions for listing below or tag the article {{copy-paste|url=possible source}} so that others can evaluate. If you confirm definitely that the content was on Wikipedia first, please consider adding {{backwardscopy}} to the article's talk page with an explanation of how you know.

If you see an article somewhere else which was copied from Wikipedia without attribution, you might visit the CC-BY-SA compliance page or Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks.

Instructions for listing text-based copyright concerns

Shortcut: WP:CPI

Blatant infringement

Pages exhibiting blatant copyright infringements may be speedily deleted if:

• Content was copied from a source which does not have a license compatible with Wikipedia, and the content was copied from that source to Wikipedia and not the other way around (Wikipedia has numerous mirrors);
• The page can neither be restored to a previous revision without infringing content, nor would the page be viable if the infringing content were removed.
• There is no credible assertion of public domain, fair use, or a free license.

Suspected or complicated infringement

If infringement is not blatant or the speedy deletion criteria do not apply:

• Remove the infringing text or revert the page to a non-copyrighted version if you can.

  The infringing text will remain in the page history for archival reasons unless the copyright holder asks the Wikimedia Foundation to remove it (unless it is tagged for {{copyvio-revdel}}. Please note the reason for removal in the edit summary and at the article's talk page (you may wish to use {{subst:cclean}}). When possible, please identify and alert the contributor of the material to the problem. The template {{Uw-copyright}} may be used for this purpose.

• However, if all revisions have copyright problems, the removal of the copyright problem is contested, or reversion/removal is otherwise complicated:

Instructions for special cases

• Probable copyvios without a known source: If you suspect that a page contains a copyright violation, but you cannot find a source for the violation (so you can't be sure that it's a violation), do not list it here. Instead, place {{cv-unsure|~~~|2=FULL_URL}} on the page's talk page, but replace FULL_URL with the full URL of the page version that you believe contains a violation. (To determine the URL, click on "Permanent link" in the toolbox area, and copy the URL.)
• Instances where one contributor has verifiably introduced copyright problems into multiple pages or files and assistance is needed in further review: See Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations.

Instructions for handling image copyright concerns

Image copyright concerns are not handled on this board. For images that are clear copyright violations, follow the procedure for speedy deletion; list images that are suspected to be copyright violations at possibly unfree images and images with disputed fair use rationales at Non-free content review. To request assistance with contributors who have infringed copyright in multiple articles or files, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations.

Responding to articles listed for copyright investigation

Any contributor is welcome to help investigate articles listed for copyright concerns, although only administrators, copyright problems board clerks, and OTRS team members should remove {{copyvio}} tags and mark listings resolved.

Assistance might include supplying evidence of non-infringement (or, conversely, of infringement) or obtaining and verifying permission of license. You might also help by rewriting problematic articles.

Supplying evidence of non-infringement

Articles are listed for copyright investigation because contributors have reason to suspect they constitute a copyright concern, but not every article listed here is actually a copyright problem. Sometimes, the content was on Wikipedia first. Sometimes, the article is public domain or compatibly licensed and can be easily fixed by supplying attribution (e.g. through a dummy edit). Sometimes, the person who placed it here is the copyright owner of freely-licensed material and this simply needs to be verified.

If you can provide information to prove license or public domain status of the article, please do. It doesn't matter if you do it under the listing for the article on the copyright problems board or on the talk page of the article; a link or a clear explanation can be very helpful when a clerk or administrator evaluates the matter. (As listings are not immediately addressed on the board, it may take a few days after you make your note before a response is provided.)

If the article is tagged for {{copyvio}}, you should allow an administrator or copyright problems clerk to remove the tag. If the article is tagged for {{copy-paste}} or {{close paraphrasing}}, you may remove the tag from the article when the problem is addressed (or disproven), but please do not close the listing on the copyright problems board itself.

Obtaining/verifying permission

Sometimes material was placed on Wikipedia with the permission of the copyright owner. Sometimes copyright owners are willing to give permission (and proper license!) even if it was not.

Any contributor can write to the owner of copyright and check whether they gave or will give permission (or maybe they in fact posted it here!). See Wikipedia:Example requests for permission. In either case, unless a statement authorizing the material under compatible license is placed online at the point of original publication, permission will need to be confirmed through e-mail to the Wikimedia Foundation. See Wikipedia:Confirmation of permission. If a compatible license is placed online at the point of original publication, please provide a link to that under the listing for the article on the copyright problems board or on the talk page of the article.

Please note that it may take a few days for letters to clear once they are sent. Do not worry if the content is deleted prematurely; it can be restored at any point usable permission is logged.

Rewriting content

Any contributor may rewrite articles that are or seem to be copyight problems to exclude duplicated or closely paraphrased text. When articles or sections of articles are blanked as copyright problems, this is done on a temporary page at Draft:PAGENAME so that the new material can be copied over the old. (The template blanking the article will link to the specific temporary page.)

Please do not copy over the version of the article that is a copyright problem as your base. All copied content, or material derived from it, should be removed first. Other content from the article can be used, if there is no reason to believe that it may be a copyright issue as well. It is often a good idea - and essential when the content is copied from an inaccessible source such as a book - to locate the point where the material entered the article and eliminate all text added by that contributor. This will help avoid inadvertently continuing the copyright issues in your rewrite. If you use any text at all from the earlier version of the article, please leave a note at the talk page of the article to alert the administrator or clerk who addresses the listing. The history of the old article will then have to be retained. (If the original turns out to be non-infringing, the two versions of the article can be merged.)

Rewrites can be done directly in articles that have been tagged for {{close paraphrasing}} and {{copy-paste}}, with those tags removed after the rewrite is complete.

Please review Wikipedia:Copy-paste and the linked guidelines and policies within it if necessary to review Wikipedia's practices for handling non-free text. Reviewing Wikipedia:Plagiarism is also helpful, particularly where content is compatibly licensed or public domain. Repairing these issues can sometimes be as simple as supplying proper attribution.

Copyright owners who submitted their own work to Wikipedia (or people editing on their behalf)

Policy shortcut: WP:IOWN

If you submitted work to Wikipedia which you had previously published and your submission was marked as a potential infringement of copyright, then stating on the article's talk page that you are the copyright holder of the work (or acting as his or her agent), while not likely to prevent deletion, helps. To completely resolve copyright concerns, it is sufficient to either:

• Link to a note permitting reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts) at the site of the original publication; or
• Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation, ideally using the email template at WP:CONSENT.

See also Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.

Please note that it may take a bit of time for letters and e-mails to clear once they are sent. Do not worry if the content is deleted prematurely; it can be restored at any point usable permission is logged. Your e-mail will receive a response whether the permission is usable or not. If you have not received a response to your letter within two weeks, it is a good idea to follow up.

One other factor you should consider, however, is that content that has been previously published elsewhere may not meet Wikipedia's specific guidelines and policies. If you are not familiar with these policies and guidelines, please review especially the core policies that govern the project. This may help prepare you to deal with any other issues with the text that may arise.

Should you choose to rewrite the content rather than release it under the requisite license, please see above.

Information about the people who process copyright problems listed on the board

Copyright problems board clerks

For a more complete description of clerks and their duties, as well as a list of active clerks, please see Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Clerks.

Copyright problems board clerks are experienced editors on Wikipedia who have demonstrated familiarity with Wikipedia's approach to non-free text and its processes for dealing with them. They are trusted to evaluate and close listings, although their closures may sometimes require completion by administrators, when use of administrative tools is required. Clerks are periodically reviewed by the administrators who work in copyright areas on Wikipedia.

Copyright problems board administrators

For a more complete description of administrators on Wikipedia, please see Wikipedia:Administrators.

Any administrator may work the copyright problems board. Working the copyright problems board may involve evaluating listings personally or using tools as necessary to complete closures by clerks. Clerks have been evaluated in their work, and their recommendations may be implemented without double-checking, although any administrator is welcome to review recommendations and discuss them with the clerks in question.

Closing listings

Pages should stay listed for a minimum of 5 days before they are checked and processed by copyright problems board clerks, 7 days before they are checked or processed by administrators, who close the daily listings. OTRS agents who verify images may close listings at any time.

For advice for resolving listings, see:

• Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Advice for admins (OTRS agents, see section there)
• Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Clerks#Advice for clerks

The templates collected at Template:CPC may be useful for administrators, clerks and OTRS agents noting resolution.

Listings of possible copyright problems

Very old issues

Older than 7 days

Below are articles that have been listed here for longer than 7 days. At this point, they may be processed by any administrator (see WP:CPAA). When every ticket on a day is clear, the day may be removed.

25 October 2015

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Nexyz. Corporation (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.nexyz.co.jp/company/achieve.html. Astrosalad (talk) 07:09, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 01:22, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
  

• User:SEOplatforms/sandbox (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.brightedge.com/news/press-releases/2013-06-11-BrightEdge-Raises-42.8-Million. Brianhe (talk) 17:15, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
• Charlie Adams (drummer) (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20060523011703/http://www.charlieadams.com/about.html. This may be part of a wider problem; there may also be a COI aspect. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:24, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Yikes, Justlettersandnumbers! Do we still need to spot-check other edits? That one was pretty bad. If I had known how widespread it was, I might have stubbed it to begin with. :( I thinkI got it all. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 02:09, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
  

Moonriddengirl, I haven't looked at this recently. But the quick off-the-top-of-my-head reply from what I recall is "yes, definitely". I'll try to dig a bit later today. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:02, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

• Justlettersandnumbers, I've found copy-pasting in Ethnicity (album). That was an unsourced copy-paste, so we have plagiarism going on here as well. That means, sadly, that we can't rely on this user to identify where he copied his content from. :( I don't have time to look through it at the moment, but there's definitely copy-pasting in this edit (and close paraphrase) at least from [1] (the epiphany line and subsequent.) We may be heading towards a CCI here. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:32, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

• Ancient Surgical Instruments (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.indiana.edu/~ancmed/instr1.html. clpo13_(talk) 21:04, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
• National Coalition Supporting Soviet Jewry (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://ncsej.org/about-us. Mhym (talk) 19:30, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:33, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

26 October 2015

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Barony of Blackhall (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://web.archive.org/web/20120312164235/http://mapage.noos.fr/rgillespi1/gillespie.html. Many strange problems at this page, including an apparent COI. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:56, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
• Alice Lougee Hagemeyer (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/post/113253914938/alice-lougee-hagemeyer. Creator asserts authorship of link in edit history. Hut 8.5 22:46, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

• Copyright concerns remain. Article deleted or tagged for speedy deletion. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:35, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

• Comment. I think admin attention may be needed here. This was deleted as G12, and promptly re-created, still with considerable problems. I'm afraid all contribs of this editor may need to be reviewed – please see Vicki Garvin, listed under today's date. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:48, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

16 November 2015

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• San Diego incident (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/San_Diego_Incident. clpo13_(talk) 18:12, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

• Publication bias (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25988604. I have not identified or notified the contributor of the copyrighted material. Elvey^(t•c) 21:54, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

• Hi, User:Elvey. :) Is it just the one sentence? If so, it's perfectly fine to remove content without bringing such removal here. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 16:12, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

OK. I dealt with that sentence, which resolves the worst of it. It's tough to come up with new, fully accurate referenced statements about these complex statistics. WP:LIMITED... --Elvey^(t•c) 20:26, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

17 November 2015

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Into sunlight (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.usma.edu/dep/Documents/West%20Point%20Program.pdf http://intosunlight.org/Together%20Higher%20&%20Robin%20Becker%20Dance.pdf. Adam9007 (talk) 01:50, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
• Ian Sprague (history · last edit · rewrite) from . Erictimewell (talk) 08:52, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:22, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

• Mount Kelly School (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.mountkelly.com/History. David Biddulph (talk) 16:13, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 16:16, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
  

• Ta' Kola Windmill (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20101027041959/http://www.heritagemalta.org/sites/takola/takolahistory.html. This appears to part of a wider, but not huge, problem. The editor's user-page reads "User page for Heritage Malta", and many edits seem to consist of copy-pastes of Heritage Malta materials (which are copyright). Note: this has nothing to do with the more recent copyvio already removed by MER-C as part of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Continentaleurope. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:40, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

I'm not quite sure how to work on this one, Justlettersandnumbers. I looked at Tal-Mintna Catacombs, compared it to what I found at [2], and it seems okay. How did you find this? Is there any way to make this easier? :/ --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 16:26, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Moonriddengirl, I started looking at the other contribs of this user yesterday, but got side-tracked (trying to start an article a day for the new year, already failing!). Unfortunately I no longer remember what else troubled me here, so I'm going to have to start from scratch. But as a taster, I find the phrase "fine painted wall plaster imitating coloured marbles and showing partly stylized architectural elements which would place them somewhere between the 1st and 2nd Pompeian Styles" both in this archived page and in the initial version of our article. I'm not yet convinced that this is very important on the overall scale of things, but I believe there's at least a partial problem here. I don't see anything to worry about at Tal-Mintna Catacombs either. I'll dig more. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:00, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

19 November 2015

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Www.jonathanholloway.com (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.remixsummits.com/syd/speaker-highlights-3/speaker/Jonathan%20Holloway. Adam9007 (talk) 01:02, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
• Phoebe Man (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.ovgallery.com/artist/phoebe-man/, http://artradarjournal.com/2014/04/25/5-hong-kong-women-artists-to-know-now/, http://www.scm.cityu.edu.hk/profile/SMPHOEBE. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:13, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

• Supreme Bishop (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.ifi.ph/history. Much text copied verbatim, but not entire section. Tagged article with {{copypaste}} on 13 November, and Talk:Supreme Bishop comment and message to User talk:Jackievon#Supreme Bishop, who seems to have copied the violating text, on 16 November. Article not edited to remove anything yet. Pol098 (talk) 14:20, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MER-C 12:38, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
  

• Toyama-ryū (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://toyamaryuiaido.jp/toyamaryu_en.html. Peter Rehse (talk) 18:05, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
  • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 08:09, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

23 November 2015

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women (history · last edit · rewrite) from the actual lists. Given past discussions about copyright of lists this seems certain to be a problem. Listing in case any one wants to turn it into an article about the list or similar rather than just being a plain list. Not done any notifications since the original creator hasn't edited in 6 years and trying to pick apart who else had made major contirbutios would be a mess. Dpmuk (talk) 03:24, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. I haven't added revdelete request; do you think it advisable to do so, Dpmuk (are these really "blatant" copyvios?)? I've removed similar content from several of the other pages linked from Template:Forbes Magazine Lists too. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:24, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
  • I'd agree that they're not blantant. The reason I may have revdel'd is it would make restoring a lot harder but as it's not a repeated problem yet I'd be tempted to leave it as is. This advice comes with the caveat that it's been at least a year since I was active in these areas so I may be out of date! Dpmuk (talk) 03:04, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

• • • • My thoughts exactly, Dpmuk. It would certainly be convenient to revdelete them, but I wouldn't want to misuse the process just for the sake of convenience. Diannaa is an active revdeleter (thank you, Diannaa!), perhaps she might have some comment? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:47, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
        • I think it's okay to leave it. -- Diannaa (talk) 15:29, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
• Kalhaar Blues & Greens Golf Club (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://kalhaarbluesandgreensgolf.golfgaga.com/.  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   11:10, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

• Article deleted due to copyright concerns. --The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:47, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
  

• Vicki Garvin (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2007/10/vicki-ama-garvin-1915-2007-organizer.html. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:43, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
• Ruth Rappaport (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn42274. Same editor as the above; all contribs need to be looked at. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:59, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
• New Heights Education Group Ohio (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/upgrade-your-world-pamela-s-clark http://www.newheightseducation.org/who-we-are.html. Adam9007 (talk) 17:17, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

• OTRS Ticket received, article now licensed and compatible with CC-BY-SA. --Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:54, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
  

• Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.emrsscotland.org. Drchriswilliams (talk) 23:21, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

• Article cleaned and revdeleted by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:30, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

28 November 2015

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Officers' Club (Bangladesh) (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://officersclubdhaka.com/?page_id=148. TomStar81 (Talk) 09:58, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

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)

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)

• Copyright concerns remain. Article deleted or tagged for speedy deletion. TomStar81, Worldbruce, I believe there's no reasonable doubt about this, based on the blog post from 2006. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:09, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

• Note: CCI requested here. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:27, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

• Article deleted due to copyright concerns. --BethNaught (talk) 08:39, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
  

• ALO Street Art (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://pureevilgallery.virb.com/alo. This is being listed here administratively, as there is apparently an ORTS ticket in the works for the article (or so the talk page claims). Until that come through, though, this remains a copyright violation. TomStar81 (Talk) 11:31, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
• 7th BRICS summit (history · last edit · rewrite) closely paraphrased from http://www.asean.org/images/2015/November/asean-india/Overview%20ASEAN-India%20Dialogue%20Relations%20-%20November%202015.pdf. Psychonaut (talk) 11:59, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Diannaa (talk) 21:56, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
  

• Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (history · last edit · rewrite) closely paraphrased from http://www.asean.org/images/2015/November/asean-india/Overview%20ASEAN-India%20Dialogue%20Relations%20-%20November%202015.pdf. Psychonaut (talk) 11:59, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

• Psychonaut, I'm not managing to access that page, either directly or via archive.org. Can you provide a different link? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 14:46, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

• ASEAN–India relations (history · last edit · rewrite) copied or closely paraphrased from http://www.asean.org/images/2015/November/asean-india/Overview%20ASEAN-India%20Dialogue%20Relations%20-%20November%202015.pdf and possibly other sources. Psychonaut (talk) 11:59, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

7 December 2015

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Red Bull Culture Clash (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.factmag.com/2012/11/08/red-bull-music-academy-culture-clash-2012-who-won-and-how-it-happened/. Crookesmoor (talk) 09:06, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:46, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
  

• Ashraf Ghani as http://president.gov.af/en/page/8262/8263 Help wanted, please - I don't know what action's needed, if any.

A substantial amount of text was added in 2006[3]. 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[4]. 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[5] and on the contributing editor's talk page[6]. 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)

10 December 2015

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Coromandel Gold Rush (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://mineforgold.co.nz/mining-gold/nz-gold-mining-history/. gadfium 01:00, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

• Article deleted due to copyright concerns. --S Philbrick(Talk) 16:52, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
  

• Real estate trading (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://online-aste.com/dettaglio/aste-online/real-estate-trading-aste/. L235 (t / c / ping in reply) 01:41, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
• Helen Acquroff (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.womenofscotland.org.uk/women/helen-acquroff. Thparkth (talk) 11:30, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

I have email confirmation from the operators of womenofscotland.org.uk that they do not claim any copyright ownership of user-contributed content to their site, and that the Wikipedia editor and the womenofscotland contributor appear to be the same person and hence the copyright owner. If this all the case, there is no copyright issue here. I have asked them to email permissions-en with this information. Thparkth (talk) 22:20, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

• Is it OK to upload images from http://sufi.ir/Pictures.php ? Below the webpage is written " Use of the form and content of this site is free, but subject to honesty." Thanks.--Taranet (talk) 19:29, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

@Taranet: I'd say no. I don't see anything on that page that even asserts they are the copyright holders of the images. At a minimum, we prefer a more explicit release, identifying that the images are owned, and specifying which license applies. If it is one of the acceptable free licenses, then the images could be used (subject to challenge). But this page hasn't even met our minimum standards for use.--S Philbrick(Talk) 17:51, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

• Monday Morning Podcast (history · last edit · rewrite) from Almost all of the descriptions are copied from copyright content. For example episode 3 from http://www.billburr.com/podcast/monday-morning-podcast-1-17-11; episode 4 from http://www.billburr.com/podcast/monday-morning-podcast-1-24-11; episode 5 from http://www.billburr.com/podcast/monday-morning-podcast-1-31-11; and so on. Diannaa (talk) 22:24, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 02:05, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
  

11 December 2015

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Ellen Coolidge Burke (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.alexandria.lib.va.us/client/en_US/home/;jsessionid=5C97D2DCF7CD56A7481A528B12516A7C.enterprise-23800?rm=ELLEN+COOLIDGE1%7C%7C%7C1%7C%7C%7C0%7C%7C%7Ctrue&ic=true&dt=list. I may be way off here, but in my view the amount of copy-pasting from the source into the initial version of this page is unacceptable. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:04, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Earwig's tool gives 27% "unlikely" even to that version. The phrases re-used contain standard clinches "until her retirement" or obvious ways to express ideas "as a cataloger and reference librarian" or related to proper names "Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.". These have already been removed to placate the bot - Earwig's now reads 1% identifying only the phrase "the League of Women Voters" in common.

If the Alexandria Library wish to sue me on the basis of either version, which is an almost vanishing likelihood, I wish them luck. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:27, 11 December 2015 (UTC).

I have requested G7 deletion and will replace with the re-written version. Generally we don't worry about this sort of stuff in history. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:34, 11 December 2015 (UTC).

Er, actually yes we do worry about it, Rich Farmbrough. You copied several chunks of text word-for-word from the source instead of writing new text in your own words. Why? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:09, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

It is futile to worry about reproducing short phrases of no significant creative value.

Copyright law does not protect names, titles, or short phrases or expressions. Even if a name, title, or short phrase is novel or distinctive or lends itself to a play on words, it cannot be protected by copyright.

— U.S. Copyright Office

Please don't derail a discussion about copyright into one about motivation.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:54, 12 December 2015 (UTC).

• Twin Anemia-Polycythemia Sequence (TAPS) (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://tapsregistry.org/what-is-taps & http://www.tapsregistry.org/ & https://www.tapsregistry.org/how-to-diagnose. (t) Josve05a (c) 21:01, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
• Draft:QuestFusion (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://questfusion.com/about/. (t) Josve05a (c) 22:19, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

12 December 2015

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• Tisziji Munoz (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.heartfiresound.com/briefbio.html · rodii · 02:05, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:50, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

• El Burrito de Belén (history · last edit · rewrite) from translated song lyrics from 1976. Regards, James(^talk/_contribs) 08:37, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MER-C 11:17, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
  

• In the Hell of Dixie (film) (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.tvduck.com/In-the-Hell-of-Dixie.htm. (t) Josve05a (c) 20:50, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
• The American Journal of Managed Care (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.amazon.it/American-Journal-Managed-Care-April-English-ebook/dp/B003ZYFBTI. (t) Josve05a (c) 22:34, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
  • Ping DGG. (Also has notability questions...) (t) Josve05a (c) 22:34, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

working on it. DGG ( talk ) 09:43, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

14 December 2015

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• Social network change detection (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/publications/papers/CMU-CS-08-116.pdf. Kevin (aka L235  · t  · c  · ping in reply) 06:54, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

• Article redirected by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:29, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

• Tiến Quân Ca (history · last edit · rewrite) Song by Văn Cao from 1944. --Stefan2 (talk) 20:37, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
• Ishy Bilady (history · last edit · rewrite) The article states that the song was written by Arif Al Sheikh Abdullah Al Hassan in 1996. --Stefan2 (talk) 20:41, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MER-C 04:54, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
  

15 December 2015

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Draft:RNLB Charles Burton (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://mobileiom.com/charlesburton/. I've posted this for copyright investigation as the draft has been around for over a year and it is difficult to determine whether the draft copied from the website or vice versa. /wia🎄/tlk 04:15, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
• Hockanum Mills Vernon Conn (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://historicbuildingsct.com/?p=19016, http://www.hockanummills.com/ etc. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:07, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
• Range of Light (album) (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.jagjaguwar.com/onesheet.php?cat=JAG240. Whpq (talk) 12:28, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
• Forbes Magazine's List of America's Best Colleges (history · last edit · rewrite) from Forbes. I removed rankings based on apparently non-factual criteria here, was reverted; listing here for review. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:33, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
• Forbes Fictional 15 (history · last edit · rewrite) from Forbes. As above. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:36, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
• Spiritual ecology (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://spiritualecology.org/about-spiritual-ecology.  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   19:52, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
• BancoSol (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.microfinance.com/English/Papers/Bolivia_BancoSol_Growth.pdf. Natg 19 (talk) 20:04, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
• Stephanie Siriwardhana (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.sundaytimes.lk/110717/Magazine/sundaytimesmagazine_01.html. Jetpet (talk) 05:36, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

16 December 2015

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• National Assembly (Armenia) (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.concourt.am/hr/armenia/engl/electcod5.htm. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 18:35, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

19 December 2015

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Parathion methyl (history · last edit · rewrite) was translated from Parathion méthyl which is a copyvio from Université de Rennes I. 37.138.32.214 (talk) 13:54, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

• Parnall (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.chew76.fsnet.co.uk/parnall/chap5.html. — Rod ^talk 16:13, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

20 December 2015

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• Ryan Harrison (tennis) (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.browsebiography.com/bio-ryan_harrison_tennis.html. Might be a backwards copy, but source page was created back in 2011, and appears not to have been modified since, so unlikely. Mdann52 (talk) 14:00, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

• Backwardscopy. Tag and explanation placed at talk page. --Kuru (talk) 18:21, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
  

• Hassan Moustafa (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://ihf.info/en-us/theihf/organization/president/curriculumvitae.aspx. Manxruler (talk) 18:38, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

22 December 2015

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• Premier Badminton League (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.thehindu.com/sport/other-sports/sudirman-cuplike-format-for-ibl/article5016442.ece, http://sports.ndtv.com/badminton/news/250892-much-delayed-indian-badminton-league-edition-2-hits-legal-roadblock, possibly elsewhere too. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:43, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Note: copying appears to go back as least as far as this. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:57, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

• Roberto Gagliardi (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20140322001958/http://artpress24.com/roberto_gagliardi_collector_gallery_curator_journalist. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:30, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

• OTRS Ticket received, article now licensed and compatible with CC-BY-SA. --Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:52, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
  

• Chianciano Museum of Art (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20081211234136/http://www.museodarte.org/EN/Etchings_and_Engravings.html. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:41, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
  • Note: both this and the one above seem to have considerable COI problems too. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:41, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
• ICGCET (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://icgcet.org/. Adam9007 (talk) 22:12, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
• Achille Castiglioni (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.r-and-company.com/biography_detail.cfm?designer_id=50, foundational. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:10, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:47, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

23 December 2015

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Titli (2014 film) (history · last edit · rewrite) from [7] Rohini (talk) 08:36, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MER-C 04:19, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
  

• Bobby Lockwood (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://imdb.com/name/nm1225475/. Chesnaught555 (talk) 10:06, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
• Luc ex (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.lucex.nl/cms/node/1. Kleuske (talk) 12:19, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
• Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://kashmirsufis.wordpress.com/tag/mir-syed-ali-hamdani-srinagar/ and many sources (in my edit summaries for the article, and as comment in blanked arti cle text) Pol098 (talk) 22:16, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

24 December 2015

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• Siderski (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://s.com.ua/Catalog/Collection/Siderski/. Webarchive says the URL predates our article, and their Terms of Use do not indicate any evidence of compatible licensing. There is also an overly long quote at the bottom.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 17:38, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

  The article creator is apparently working through OTRS now.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:42, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

• The Bloodless Revolution (book) (history · last edit · rewrite) from There is no content that isn't just stealing someone else's words. Basically a copyvio cut-and-paste. It's identified what the sources are, at least.. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 03:15, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

29 December 2015

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3 January 2016

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

The article Oldest people is over half copy-vio from http://www.grg.org/Adams/m.HTM and http://www.grg.org/Adams/C.HTM The major and significant components of these tables are completely copied over. This information represents significant research and is (outside of Wikipedia) uniquely the product of the GRG site admin. I am sorry this is not formatted correctly, my first time in this area and I just could not figure out what was expected. Thank-you.Legacypac (talk) 02:47, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

• Oldest people (history

• last edit • rewrite) from http://www.grg.org/Adams/m.HTM And http://www.grg.org/Adams/C.HTM Legacypac (talk) 03:46, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

NSee Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Persistent_disruptive_behavior_and_edit-warring_by_User:Legacypac indicating this is likely not the proper venue for this complaint. The article itself appears to be most entirely tabular in nature, and there is no claim that the tables qua tables are copyright here. Collect (talk) 15:30, 3 January 2016 (UTC) Kudpung appears to be interested in this case per AN/I discussion. Collect (talk) 15:33, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

• Nepali Topi (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.shankerhotel.com.np/blog/2014/11/14/nepali-topi-mark-of-the-nepali-man. Adam9007 (talk) 03:23, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

5 January 2016

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• Manyawar Kanshiram Engineering College of Information Technology (history · last edit · rewrite) and GEC Azamgarh (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.gecazamgarh.ac.in/About.aspx http://gecazamgarh.ac.in/Msg_Director.aspx. MER-C 12:08, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
• Maheshkhali Upazila (history · last edit · rewrite) from . (I'm following through on a case where another editor placed the Copyviocore template on the article, but neglected to complete the remaining filing steps. Although the lede matches [8] and [9], 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)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 00:38, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

7 January 2016

• Isma'il ibn Jafar (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://simerg.com/literary-readings/the-ismailis-fom-the-earliest-times-to-the-fall-of-the-fatimid-empire/. Ghirla^-трёп- 07:21, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
  • The copyvio was added as early as 2012. --Ghirla^-трёп- 07:26, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
• Katharine, Duchess of Kent (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.royal.gov.uk/ThecurrentRoyalFamily/TheDuchessofKent/Activitiesandinterests.aspx. 137.205.238.124 (talk) 09:58, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

• 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)

• User:Jaygoldm/sandbox/George Large (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.goldmarkart.com/scholarship/artists-2/george-large/). —UY Scuti ^Talk 13:33, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
• Danny Guba (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20140903124039/http://docepares-europe.com/Danny_Guba.html. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:22, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
• Chris Beyrer (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://jliflc.com/author/cbeyrer/. Adam9007 (talk) 22:07, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
• Rostislav Krimer (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.bashmet-festival.com/eng/festival_info/rostislavkrimer. A previous draft of this was rejected as copyvio and deleted, this one was accepted but still contains copyvio. Most of the "Early life" and "Concert life" sections were taken from that link, the rest isn't but may well be taken from somewhere else, possibly one of the foreign language sources cited. Hut 8.5 22:38, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
  • www.bashmet.com has given all necessary license to Wikipedia to use any text or photo from this resource, so all are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) The necessary statement is left on the http://bashmet-festival.com/eng/festival_info/rostislavkrimer

Please kindly open the page again.

11 January 2016

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den (history · last edit · rewrite) This is a copyrighted poem. There's a discussion at Wikipedia:Non-free content review/Archive 5#Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den which seems to be unclosed (although someone added closure tags), and there was an attempt to create an RfC at User:Rjanag/Lion RFC, although only one person in addition to the original author ever commented on the attempted RfC. The main argument by those who wish to keep the text in the article seems to be that other stuff exists, for example in other language editions of this article. --Stefan2 (talk) 21:06, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
• Richard the Stork (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://market-projects-2014.powertothepixel.com/2014/pixel-market/richard-the-stork. The entire plot was copied from there. Qpalzmmzlapq (talk | contribs) 22:14, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:42, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

13 January 2016

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Royal Institute of Navigation (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.rin.org.uk/general/About-the-RIN, http://www.rin.org.uk/general/History. Rax (talk) 22:24, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
  • Sub-page with re-write created. The blanked article was a copy/paste from the RIN website.Blue Riband► 18:51, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
    • Rewrite moved into place. MER-C 03:35, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
• Shake Hands Forever (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780007159444/shake-hands-for-ever. I'm really not skilled enough to know who added this and when so I can't inform the original editor. I was (very nicely) requested to stop reporting copyvios until I learnt how to do this and so far I have. But... well... that seems weird to me. Trey Maturin (talk) 22:42, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. As Trey Maturin has said, the editor wasn't notified; but he/she has been indeffed since 2012, so I don't think that matters. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:58, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

• This editor, Barbara Osgood, may need looking at more carefully. She has text-copyvio warnings going back to 2008 (from Moonriddengirl) and 2011 (from Shirt58), and appears to have copied publisher's blurbs (or descriptions from Amazon or somewhere) as plot summaries in several articles, including the one above and The Killing Doll, partly from the book itself. I'm having some trouble seeing whether there's enough to justify a CCI request. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:58, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

14 January 2016

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Confidence trick (history · last edit · rewrite) from Edward H. Smith, Confessions of a Confidence Man: A Handbook for Suckers, p. 35-37. BlacklightShining (talk) 08:46, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
• Adarsh Commercial Institute (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://suvratraj.xtgem.com/adarsh+commercial+institute/. larryv (talk) 08:59, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
• The Great Mosque of Algiers (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.dessau.com/en/projects/great-mosque-of-algiers-3 and http://www.kuk.de/content/pro/2007-3040/2007-3040-e.pdf. Speedy deletion was contested, so now they have one week to fix it. - HyperGaruda (talk) 15:31, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

15 January 2016

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Stopped-rotor combat aircraft (history · last edit · rewrite) from . — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 17:26, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
• Oil & Gas University of Ploiești (history · last edit · rewrite) from [10] TheGGoose (talk) 19:02, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:27, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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)

• Oceanian Karate Federation (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://karatedopreschool.com/organizations2.html. The text is very similar, as if it had been copied into the article and some words switched. Or as if it was straight up copied from another similar website. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:12, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

• Ministry of Resettlement (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://bcgr.gov.lk/history.php. Rohini (talk) 11:47, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

• Wave motor (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://outsidelands.org/wave-motor.php. 98.210.6.183 (talk) 06:17, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

19 January 2016

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Geofoveation (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280706228_Development_and_implementation_of_geofoveation_GEOF. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:09, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

  Cleaned up copy available by @KenanBektas:.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 12:34, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

• Tamil computing in Singapore (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.readbag.com/conference-nie-sg-2007-paper-papers-ite283. This is extensively copied and needs large scale cleanup.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 12:34, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
• Talk:Katharine Drexel (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1997-03-11/news/1997070108_1_katharine-drexel-mother-katharine-klan. Jahaza (talk) 14:47, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

20 January 2016

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Karbonn (2015 film) (history · last edit · rewrite) from [11] and [12]. 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)
• Newcastle Thunder (history · last edit · rewrite) from [13] [14] [15]. The bulk of this was placed by Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/GordyB, but there was a second wave here: [16]. Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:50, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
• User:Velmuruga-12a/sandbox (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/tubitak_content_files/icdenetim/ekutuphane/it_audit_manual_asosai.htm. I don't remember what the copyright status of Turkish government text is.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 14:57, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
• Royal_College_of_Chiropractic_Sports_Sciences This is nominated in AfD but there also appears to be a lot of close paraphrasing from the RCCSS web site http://www.rccssc.ca/index.php/history-of-rccss-c Seems to have been there since the article was created in 2006. Blue Riband► 00:43, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

21 January 2016

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• AFL Coaches Association (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://aflca.com.au/index.php?id=11. Qpalzmmzlapq (talk | contribs) 02:32, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
• ACCESS Health International (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.accessh.org/. Murph9000 (talk) 07:33, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

22 January 2016

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Aghajan Petrosyan (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.agaaghajan.com/; the entire biography came from there. Tagged for speedy deletion under A7. Qpalzmmzlapq (talk | contribs) 00:05, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

• MarkEWhitlock (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.corchurch.org/our-pastor. Adam9007 (talk) 00:43, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
• Raimondi College (history · last edit · rewrite) from [17], [18] and [19] 222.167.166.230 (talk) 09:40, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
• Kabi Nazrul Government College (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://dhakadailyphoto.blogspot.it/2006/12/dhaka-madrasah-to-kabi-nazrul-govt.html, http://www.kncollege.gov.bd/index.php?
• Muslim Government High School (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://dhakadailyphoto.blogspot.it/2006/12/secondary-schools-19th-to-early-20th.html. Same editor again. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:12, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
  • Note: CCI requested here. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:26, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
• CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH & ENVIRONMENTAL (history · last edit · rewrite) from here. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:15, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

23 January 2016

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24 January 2016

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Draft:Mother Seton School (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.mothersetonschool.org/history.html. (t) Josve05a (c) 20:26, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

25 January 2016

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Draft:Art Helton (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://arthelton.com/about_art_helton.html. Whpq (talk) 01:48, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
• .wtf (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://icannwiki.com/.wtf. Their license is CC-BY-SA 4.0 and according to Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright that license is not backwards compatible with ours.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:07, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
• Thomas Pecocke (history · last edit · rewrite) from ODNB. Close to verbatim copy. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:22, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

• Rewrite moved into place. MER-C 12:15, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

• Subodh Kerkar (history · last edit · rewrite) from "http://www.subodhkerkar.com/text/Pepper%20Cross%20-%20ecatalogue.pdf". See also commentary on the article's talk page and the CSBot copyvio log. Murph9000 (talk) 11:55, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

  I am going to ping @Subodhkerkar:; based on their userpage, name and contributions they seem to be both the article subject and the author of said PDF. Perhaps they can give us insight.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 12:14, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

• Brian C. Carroll (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://catapultlakeland.com/team_member/dr-brian-carroll/. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 14:25, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
• Kadisha Onalbayeva (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.kadishaonalbayeva.com/about.html. Adam9007 (talk) 17:01, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
• Mark A. Gabriel (history · last edit · rewrite) Most of the content seems to be a copy/paste from this website (see talk page). --Lebob (talk) 17:35, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

26 January 2016

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Thermomass theory (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.thermalfluidscentral.org/journals/index.php/Heat_Mass_Transfer/article/view/69/145. (t) Josve05a (c) 13:43, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
• MindBEAGLE (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.gtec.at/content/download/11514/95756/version/3/ and http://mind-beagle.com/index.php/Science_behind_mindBEAGLE. Tagged it first as G12, the editor @Gtec lechner: claimed they own the copyrights to this text on the talk page so I've retracted that request and will submit the article here instead.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 15:39, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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• Caldasite (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.google.com/patents/US20020184972; http://www.minsocam.org/ammin/AM33/AM33_142.pdf; maybe others. Original creator of the article began with a copy/paste of the article Chvaleticeite, then modified it to refer to caldasite instead. It looks as if the copyvio was original with the creator, in this edit. The user has not been active on Wikipedia for more than two years, after creating only this article. The two links I found are given as non-footnoted references in the article (Franco and Loewenstein, 1948; and Williams et al., 2004); checking some of the others may yield even more sources of copied text. I could not tell what was a copyvio and what was not, so did not tag it for speedy delete. I'd like to try rewriting it. — Gorthian (talk) 00:12, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

• MindBEAGLE (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.gtec.at/content/download/11514/95756/version/3/ and http://mind-beagle.com/index.php/Science_behind_mindBEAGLE. Gtec lechner (talk) 07:17, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

New listings

Notice:If the links below in this section are broken, it's because there are too many unresolved copyright problems, If enough issues are closed, they'll work again. (So help!)

(Above notice per MER-C.)

WARNING! It also means that some reported problems are not on this page!!!

New listings are not added directly to this page but are instead on daily reports. To add a new listing, please go to today's section. Instructions for adding new listings can be found at Instructions for listing text-based copyright concerns. Entries may not be reviewed and are not closed for at least 7 days to give the original authors of the article time to deal with the problem.

Older than 5 days

Below are articles that have been listed here for longer than 5 days. At this point, they may be processed by a copyright problems board clerk. After 7 days, they may be closed by an administrator.

27 January 2016

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Draft:North Turramurra Football Club (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.ntfc.com.au/history and others. Seems like a very extensive problem there. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:49, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
• S.B.Patil college of science and commerce (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.sbpatilcollege.com/pdf/leaflet.pdf. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:52, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
• Roger Brown (songwriter) (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.nashvillesongwriters.com/roger-brown, http://gene-watson.com/index.php/roger-brown.html. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:01, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
• Van Dyke Brown (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.alternativephotographyprocesses.com/chapter5.htm http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/processes/kallitypes/beyond-the-blues-vandyke-brown-printing. _→AzaToth 15:49, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

28 January 2016

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• Elihu Katz (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20130605152013/http://www.asc.upenn.edu/Faculty/Faculty-Bio.aspx?id=118. HyperGaruda (talk) 07:37, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
• Draft:Gutta Gustiavo (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.datpiff.com/Gutta-Gustiavo-Tax-Free-Dollars-the-Street-Album-mixtape.246322.html. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:34, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
• Accrediting Agency of Chartered Colleges and Universities in the Philippines (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.aaccupqa.org.ph/. Most of the lead is taken from that source, could potentially be salvaged by rewording or extensive removal. Hut 8.5 22:43, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Recent listings

Below are articles that have been listed here for 5 days or less. Anyone in the community may help clarify the copyright status on these. See the section on responding for more information.

29 January 2016

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Videodrome (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/676-medium-cruel-reflections-on-videodrome. Criterion article was posted in 2010 and was originally written in 2004. /wiae /tlk 03:17, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
• Khimjibhai Sanabhai Parmar vs Sevalia Cement Works (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://indiankanoon.org/doc/1698582/. This text represents a court ruling and may fall under {{PD-India}}. Not a case for straight G12, hence listing here to check.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 12:39, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

• I believe PD-India is under some question right now, as a strict reading of the section on judicial rulings would lead it to be considered a "government work", and thus "In the case of a government work, government shall, in the absence of any agreement to the contrary, be the first owner of the copyright therein"[20]. Even if it is PD in the US (which is all that is required, I believe) I don't think we want to have the entire content of the ruling pasted in. That sets a bad precedent (we turn into the Indian Wikisource?). Crow^Caw 23:09, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

• Sky Harbor Air National Guard Base (history · last edit · rewrite) from User:Bwmoll3 copyright infringement investigation. Buckshot06 (talk) 20:41, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

30 January 2016

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Cloud-dew architecture (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://mmm.clouddew.com/, http://www.researchgate.net/publication/277404519_Cloud-dew_architecture. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:21, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
• Dew computing (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.ronpub.com/publications/ojcc/OJCC_2015v2i1n03_Skala.html. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:39, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

31 January 2016

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• World Boxing Federation (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.worldboxingfoundation.com/about-us. Peter Rehse (talk) 00:32, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
• ExxonMobil (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34088/0000950103-99-000247.txt. Beagel (talk) 14:49, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

1 February 2016

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Screw gun (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.proremodelingtips.com/Using-a-Drywall-Screw-Gun.html Article could be reverted to this 2010 version immediately prior to the introduction of the copyvio, but in light of the amount of editing that's been done since then I'd prefer a second opinion on this close paraphrase before reverting 6 years of edits, many of which were not to the copyvio text. Removing the copyvio text will leave the article wholly unsourced (but the one existing source, which is also the source of the copyvio text, is not a reliable source to begin with per SPS). — TransporterMan (TALK) 04:28, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
• Culmer White (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://arthurmicklethwaite.htmlplanet.com/boatmans_tales_by_S_Holbourn/A_Boatmans_tales_S_Holbourns_study_of_lifeboat_rescues_shipwrights_and_local_families_02.htm. Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 05:21, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
• Cultural competence (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.formanmediation.com/articles/cultural-competency/ http://www.liquisearch.com/cultural_competence/background. Gaurav (talk) 23:53, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

• No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. --Kuru (talk) 03:12, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
  . Liquidsearch is a mirror, and it credits wikipedia at the bottom of the page. The other link is a blog dated after the last notable edit to the article here. Kuru (talk) 03:12, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

2 February 2016

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Draft:Mazumdar Shaw Medical Foundation (history · last edit · rewrite) The "About Us" section contains extensive copying from the "Mazumdar Shaw Medical Foundation - Solving Global Problems" section on [21]. The promotional wording and words such as "we" in the other sections suggest that they also may have been copied from somewhere. --Stefan2 (talk) 11:51, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

  It seems that there are clean copies in the history. For example, Special:PermanentLink/700011601 is clean. I don't know if this is the most recent clean version. --Stefan2 (talk) 11:53, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

• Military justice (Egypt) (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-4175.html. Qpalzmmzlapq (talk to me) 21:40, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
• Anu Malhotra (history · last edit · rewrite) Most of the content appears to come from various news or promotional pieces on the internet, [22] or [23] among others. Uanfala (talk) 23:55, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

3 February 2016

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• User:Pilvine (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.nordicscience.net/about-us/what-is-nscf. Very closely paraphrased, even for an userpage.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:49, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

  Noting here that User:Pilvine/sandbox appears to have the same issue.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:04, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

• User:Collabland/sandbox/CollabLand (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.collabland.gov.in/. My browser does not let me see the site so I can't check if it's G12 eligible or not.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:56, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

  Looks to be copied based on this archive.org version, but I don't know about the copyright status of that site. /wiae /tlk 14:19, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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