Wikipedia:Copyright problems
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This page is for listing and discussing possible copyright problems involving text on Wikipedia, including pages suspected to be copyright violations. Listings typically remain for at least five days before review and closure by a copyright problems clerk or administrator. During this time, interested contributors are invited to offer feedback, propose revisions, or request copyright permission.
Listed pages appear in the bottom section of the page. For additional guidance, see Instructions for dealing with text-based copyright concerns.
To add a new listing, go to today's section.
Handling previously published text on Wikipedia
Under the United States law that governs Wikipedia, copyright is automatically assumed as soon as any content (text or other media) is created in a physical form. An author does not need to apply for or claim copyright, for a copyright to exist.
Only one of the following allows works to be reused in Wikimedia projects:
A) Explicit Statement. An explicit statement (by the author, or by the holder of the rights to the work) that the material is either:
- in the public domain,
- licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA), or
- otherwise compatible with CC-BY-SA.
B) Public Domain. If the work is inherently in the public domain, due to its age, source or lack of originality; or
C) Fair Use. United States law allows for fair use of copyrighted content, and (within limits) Wikipedia does as well. Under guidelines for non-free content, brief selections of copyrighted text may be used, but only if clearly marked and with full attribution.
Even if a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, material should be properly attributed in accordance with Wikipedia:Plagiarism in respect of local customs and attribution requirements of compatible licenses. If the terms of the compatible license are not met, use of the content can constitute a violation of copyright even if the license is compatible.
Repeated copyright violations
Contributors who repeatedly post copyrighted text or images may be subject to contributor copyright investigations, to ensure the removal from the project of all copyright infringement. Contributors who repeatedly post copyrighted material after appropriate warnings will be blocked from editing, to protect the project; see 17 United States Code § 512.
Instructions for dealing with text-based copyright concerns
Blatant infringement
Pages exhibiting blatant copyright infringements may be speedily deleted if:
- Content was copied from a source which does not have a license compatible with Wikipedia, and was not copied from a mirror source.
- The page can neither be restored to a previous revision without infringing content, nor would the page be viable if the infringing content were removed.
- There is no credible assertion of public domain, fair use, or a free license.
To nominate an article for speedy deletion for copyright concerns, add one of these to the page:
{{db-copyvio|url=insert URL of source here}}
{{db-copyvio|describe non-web source here}}
Both of these templates will generate a notice that you should give the contributor of the content. This is important to help ensure that they do not continue to add copyrighted content to Wikipedia. An administrator will examine the article and decide whether to delete it or not. You should not blank the page in this instance.
Suspected or complicated infringement
If infringement is not blatant or the speedy deletion criteria do not apply:
- Remove or rewrite the infringing text avoiding copyright violations or revert the page to before the text was added.
- The infringing text will remain in the page history, and it may be tagged for {{copyvio-revdel}}. Administrators hold discretion on the appropriateness of revision deletion for each case. Please note the reason for removal in the edit summary and at the article's talk page (you may wish to use {{subst:cclean}}). Please identify and alert the contributor of the material to the problem, unless advised not to. The template {{Uw-copyright}} may be used for this purpose.
- However, if all revisions have copyright problems, the removal of the copyright problem is contested, reversion/removal is otherwise complicated, or the article is eligible for presumptive deletion:
- Place one of the following above the infringing text:
{{subst:copyvio|url=insert URL here}}
{{subst:copyvio|identify non-web source here}}
- Optionally place
{{subst:Copyvio/bottom}}
below if only some of the article infringes.
- Go to today's section and add:
{{subst:article-cv|PageName}}
from [insert URL or identify non-web source here] ~~~~
- to the bottom of the list. Put the page's name in place of "PageName". If you do not have a URL, enter a description of the source. (This text can be copied from the top of the template after substituting it and the page name and url will be filled for you.) If there is not already a page for the day, as yours would be the first listing, please add a header to the top of the page using the page for another date as an example.
- Advise the contributor of the listing at their talk page. The template on the now blanked page supplies a notice you may use for that purpose.
Instructions for special cases
- Probable copyvios without a known source: If you suspect that a page contains a copyright violation, but you cannot find a source for the violation (so you can't be sure that it's a violation), do not list it here. Instead, place
{{cv-unsure|~~~|2=FULL_URL}}
on the page's talk page, but replace FULL_URL with the full URL of the page version that you believe contains a violation. (To determine the URL, click on "Permanent link" in the toolbox area, and copy the URL.) - One contributor has verifiably introduced copyright problems into multiple pages or files and assistance is needed in further review: See Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations.
Instructions for handling image copyright concerns
Image copyright concerns are not handled on this board. For images that are clear copyright violations, follow the procedure for speedy deletion; otherwise list at Files for Discussion. To request assistance with contributors who have infringed copyright in multiple articles or files, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations.
Responding to articles listed for copyright investigation
Any contributor is welcome to help investigate articles listed for copyright concerns, although only administrators, copyright problems board clerks, and VRT (formerly OTRS) agents should remove {{copyvio}} tags and mark listings resolved.
Assistance might include supplying evidence of non-infringement (or, conversely, of infringement) or obtaining and verifying permission of license. You might also help by rewriting problematic articles or removing infringing text (without removing {{copyvio}}).
Supplying evidence of non-infringement
Articles listed here are suspect of copyright concern, but not every article contains infringement. The content may be on Wikipedia first, in the public domain, compatibly licensed, or falls below threshold of originality for copyright. Sometimes, the person who placed it here is the copyright owner of freely-licensed material and this simply needs to be verified.
Information can be provided to prove compatible licensing or public domain status under the listing of the article on the copyright problems board or on the talk page of the article. A link or a clear explanation can be very helpful when a clerk or administrator evaluates the matter. As listings are not immediately addressed on the board, it may take a few days after you make your note before a response is provided.
If the article is tagged for {{copyvio}}, you should allow an administrator or copyright problems clerk to remove the tag. If the article is tagged for {{copy-paste}} or {{close paraphrasing}}, you may remove the tag from the article when the problem is addressed (or disproven), but please do not close the listing on the copyright problems board itself.
Obtaining/verifying permission
Sometimes material was placed on Wikipedia with the permission of the copyright owner. Sometimes copyright owners are willing to give permission (and proper license!) even if it was not.
Any contributor can write to the owner of copyright and check whether they gave or will give permission (or maybe they in fact posted it here!). See Wikipedia:Example requests for permission. In either case, unless a statement authorizing the material under compatible license is placed online at the point of original publication, permission will need to be confirmed through e-mail to the Wikimedia Foundation. See Wikipedia:Confirmation of permission. If a compatible license is placed online at the point of original publication, please provide a link to that under the listing for the article on the copyright problems board or on the talk page of the article.
Please note that it may take a few days for letters to clear once they are sent. Do not worry if the content is deleted prematurely; it can be restored at any point usable permission is logged.
Rewriting content
Any contributor may rewrite articles that are or seem to be copyight problems to exclude duplicated or closely paraphrased text. When articles or sections of articles are blanked as copyright problems, rewriting is done on a temporary page at Talk:PAGENAME/Temp so that the new material can be copied over the old. (The template blanking the article will link to the specific temporary page.)
Please do not copy over the version of the article that is a copyright problem as your base. All copied content, or material derived from it, should be removed first. Other content from the article can be used, if there is no reason to believe that it may be a copyright issue as well. It is often a good idea – and essential when the content is copied from an inaccessible source such as a book – to locate the point where the material entered the article and eliminate all text added by that contributor. This will help avoid inadvertently continuing the copyright issues in your rewrite. If you use any text at all from the earlier version of the article, please leave a note on the listing to alert the administrator or clerk who review the rewrite. The history of the old article will then have to be retained. (If the original turns out to be non-infringing, the two versions of the article can be merged.)
Rewrites can be done directly in articles that have been tagged for {{close paraphrasing}} and {{copy-paste}}, with those tags removed after the rewrite is complete.
Please review Wikipedia:Copy-paste and the linked guidelines and policies within it if necessary to review Wikipedia's practices for handling non-free text. Reviewing Wikipedia:Plagiarism is also helpful, particularly where content is compatibly licensed or public domain. Repairing these issues can sometimes be as simple as supplying proper attribution.
Copyright owners who submitted their own work to Wikipedia (or people editing on their behalf)
If you submitted work to Wikipedia which you had previously published and your submission was marked as a potential infringement of copyright, then stating on the article's talk page that you are the copyright holder of the work (or acting as his or her agent), while not likely to prevent deletion, helps. To completely resolve copyright concerns, it is sufficient to either:
- Link to a note permitting reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts) at the site of the original publication; or
- Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation, ideally using the email template at WP:CONSENT.
See also Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
Please note that it may take a bit of time for letters and e-mails to clear once they are sent. Do not worry if the content is deleted prematurely; it can be restored at any point usable permission is logged. Your e-mail will receive a response whether the permission is usable or not. If you have not received a response to your letter within two weeks, it is a good idea to follow up.
One other factor you should consider, however, is that content that has been previously published elsewhere may not meet Wikipedia's specific guidelines and policies. If you are not familiar with these policies and guidelines, please review especially the core policies that govern the project. This may help prepare you to deal with any other issues with the text that may arise.
Should you choose to rewrite the content rather than release it under the requisite license, please see above.
Clerks and patrolling administrators
Copyright clerks
For a more complete description of clerks and their duties, as well as a list of active clerks, please see Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Clerks.
Copyright clerks are experienced editors on Wikipedia who are familiar with copyright and non-free content policies and its enforcement. They are trusted to evaluate and close listings and request administrative actions when necessary. Clerks are periodically reviewed by other clerks and patrolling administrators.
Copyright problems board administrators
For a more complete description of administrators on Wikipedia, please see Wikipedia:Administrators.
Any administrator may work the copyright problems board. Working the copyright problems board may involve evaluating listings personally or using tools as necessary to complete closures by clerks. Clerks have been evaluated in their work, and their recommendations may be implemented without double-checking, although any administrator is welcome to review recommendations and discuss them with the clerks in question.
Closing listings
Pages can be processed at any time by anyone, but are not formally closed until a clerk or administrator verifies that all problems are resolved. Pages listed for presumptive deletion stay open for a minimum of 7 days before being processed. VRT agents may close listings at any times.
For advice for resolving listings, see:
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Advice for admins (VRT agents, see section there)
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Advice for clerks
{{CPC}} may be used to denote resolutions of listings by administrators, clerks and VRT agents.
Listings of possible copyright problems
Older than 7 days
2 April 2024
- Diego Alfonso de Medrano (history · last edit · rewrite): largely copied from this dissertation (downloads automatically); also visible here. See the two CopyPatrol reports: https://copypatrol.toolforge.org/en/?id=107461288, https://copypatrol.toolforge.org/en/?id=107465032 — Diannaa (talk) 01:31, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. — Diannaa (talk) 23:09, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- Albert Pearson Stewart (history · last edit · rewrite) from [ISBN 0931682215]. This article references the a book by Bennet (ISBN 0931682215) normally, as far as I can tell. But it also contains the text "Permission to use material from Bennett's book was obtained from the head of the Purdue Musical Organizations." which must mean that it contains a lot more than just academic references, requiring permission from the publishing organization. But where (and how) is that re-use permission obtained, released, and recorded? Mikeblas (talk) 02:38, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- VRT pending but not yet verified, relisting under today's entry. Not relisting. Sennecaster (Chat) 16:41, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- What is the difference between "relisting" and "not relisting"? -- Mikeblas (talk) 21:22, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- The template automatically has "Relisting" in it, but I think the ticket will clear up soon and we're not in a massive rush so I chose to not put a new entry under the current day. Sennecaster (Chat) 21:31, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- OK, thanks! -- Mikeblas (talk) 01:39, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
- It's been a couple of months ... what are the next steps here? Another listing and not relisting, or something else? -- Mikeblas (talk) 09:46, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Mikeblas: Apologies for the delayed response, IRL got very busy. The VRT ticket has no activity, but there is a rewrite that an admin can move into place that is okay. @CusterDome, thank you for the rewrite and apologies for the lengthy response time this took. Sennecaster (Chat) 06:05, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- The template automatically has "Relisting" in it, but I think the ticket will clear up soon and we're not in a massive rush so I chose to not put a new entry under the current day. Sennecaster (Chat) 21:31, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- What is the difference between "relisting" and "not relisting"? -- Mikeblas (talk) 21:22, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- I have rewritten the Albert Pearson Stewart to be in conformance with copyright restrictions. I posted the rewrite in a link that was originally provided. CusterDome (talk) 19:31, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Viable rewrite proposed; rewrite on temp page can be merged into the article. Overlapping content is ok. Not sure how to do the attribution right now so leaving for someone else. Sennecaster (Chat) 06:03, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- VRT pending but not yet verified, relisting under today's entry. Not relisting. Sennecaster (Chat) 16:41, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- Arab archery (history · last edit · rewrite) from [aramcoworld.com/en-US/Articles/July-2017/Hadrian-s-Syrians-1]. I don't see any mention of a publication date, but it does cite commons at some point. Geardona (talk to me?) 23:26, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Citing commons isn't an indicator because it's required for most licenses (CC-BY-SA). Sennecaster (Chat) 16:14, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
16 April 2024
- List of Debaters radio episodes (history · last edit · rewrite) from Apple Music and CBC website; see individual entries for each individual source. The Apple Music website doesn't seem to have plot descriptions but they do look like copyvio to me. Sorry, this is a big job, as there's hundreds of episodes. I have notified the most recent contributor. — Diannaa (talk) 19:34, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
17 April 2024
- Oil spill (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296136247_Effects_of_crude_oil_pollution_in_the_tropical_rainforest_biodiversity_of_Ecuadorian_Amazon_Region. Professor Penguino (talk) 05:51, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- Some evidence: the content was added in February 2016. It's basically identical to a sentence in the study.
- Link to problematic revision here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oil_spill&diff=prev&oldid=707600583
- Link to study here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296136247_Effects_of_crude_oil_pollution_in_the_tropical_rainforest_biodiversity_of_Ecuadorian_Amazon_Region
- Cheers, Professor Penguino (talk) 05:56, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. – Isochrone (talk) 16:02, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- Suspected copyright infringements without a source from June to September 2013
- David Livingstone (history · last edit · rewrite)
- No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. Checked main book and everything is appropriately quoted – Isochrone (talk) 20:11, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- Social intelligence (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Critical Path Institute (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. – Isochrone (talk) 20:31, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- Literary and Debating Society (University of Galway) (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Ruby McGregor-Smith (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Wizardman 00:59, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
- Neuroimaging intelligence testing (history · last edit · rewrite)
- No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. Wizardman 00:57, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
- Johnny Hartman (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Wizardman 23:46, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
- Articles with close paraphrasing from July 2019
- 2019 STP 500 (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nascar-auto-racing/thatsracin/article142292764.html
- No copyright concern. Material is PD, license compatible, or ineligible for copyright protection. MER-C 18:21, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
- Susan Domchek (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.facingourrisk.org/about-ust/our-impact/media-center/assets/Spirit-of-Empowerment-2018-Press-Release.pdf
- Omega Seamaster (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://omega.prestige.co.il/Page.aspx?Code=789
- Asoka Weerasinghe (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.nation.lk/2010/12/19/eyefea4.htm
- Copied and pasted articles and sections from September 2019
- Articles with improper non-free content from October 2019
- Ultra Magnus (history · last edit · rewrite)
End. MER-C 18:39, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
18 April 2024
- Suspected copyright infringements without a source from October 2013 to May 2014
- Chʼortiʼ language (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Cricket dolls (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Mih jeans (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Burzio's generalization (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Business process automation (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Consumer Technology Association (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Oral History of British Science (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Aeroflot Flight 99 (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Nuzha Nuseibeh (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Jeremy Rifkin (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Uskok War (history · last edit · rewrite)
End. MER-C 18:40, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
19 April 2024
- Crusading movement (history · last edit · rewrite) see talk for details. listed by User:Borsoka. Sennecaster (Chat) 20:36, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
27 April 2024
- Angelita C. et al. v. California Department of Pesticide Regulation (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2016/05/16/right_without_a_remedy.pdf. — Diannaa (talk) 00:08, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
28 April 2024
- Laravel (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://laravel.com/docs/11.x. Very Fantastic Dude (talk) 17:26, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
- No copyright concern. Material is PD, license compatible, or ineligible for copyright protection. See here. – Isochrone (talk) 13:09, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
- London Youth Games (history · last edit · rewrite) from [1] BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 20:22, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
- Permission plausible. Article relisted. – Isochrone (talk) 20:37, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
29 April 2024
- Belavia Flight 1834 (history · last edit · rewrite) from [2]. Foundational. – dudhhr talkcontribssheher 16:34, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 10:58, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hanuman Books (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/sclead/umich-scl-hanuman?view=text. Foundational, source cited in first revision. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:21, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
30 April 2024
- Louisiana State University (history · last edit · rewrite) from multiple sources, including this, this, this, and this, but it is very likely that there are more, and these issues are longstanding. Have also posted a CCI request. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:04, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
- Columbia University (history · last edit · rewrite) from multiple sources, some outlined in this GAR but it is very likely that there are more, and these issues are longstanding. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:22, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
- Triumphal arches for the arrival of Isabel II to Seville (history · last edit · rewrite) Old Vvven creation I haven't been able to find a source for GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 04:17, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 16:37, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Roman bridge of Ávila (history · last edit · rewrite) Another old Vvven creation that doesn't appear to be a translation of the esWiki article. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 04:22, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 16:37, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
2 May 2024
- Party for Freedom (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/amerikaanse-suikeroom-geert-wilders . As the source is paywalled, I can't prove this section has been copied. However, this contributor has inserted copyrighted texts into numerous other articles GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 02:17, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
- Yandex (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/nederlandse-yandex-dochter-levert-rusland-surveillance-software . Same as above, though this time I can show the first few lines appear in this source: https://www.ftm.nl/tag/toloka-ai , which the website likely re-uses throughout their own content. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 02:17, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
- Draft:Islam and Arabic language (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://archive.org/stream/WorldReligionsAndIslam.ACriticalStudyVol.1ByHamidNaseemRafiabadi/World%20Religions%20and%20Islam.%20A%20Critical%20Study%20%2C%20vol.1%20by%20Hamid%20Naseem%20Rafiabadi_djvu.txt. — Diannaa (talk) 13:50, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
- The book is not directly copied here but rather than summarized. 202.134.9.136 (talk) 15:18, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
- Article deleted for a reason other than copyright concerns. MER-C 15:35, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- Phoenician settlement of North Africa (history · last edit · rewrite) from {{{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Phoenician_settlement_of_North_Africa}}} I've added examples of the extensive copying of tesxt from soureces with the lightest of edits to the talk page. 2001:8F8:1B69:1AFD:30A9:6768:87CA:4A82 (talk) 08:52, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- There's not enough to justify the tag, and User:Skitash made changes to the article. I removed the tag. I hope you don't add it back. Also as I noted on the RPP, further investigation into your claim is welcome. Until you can prove extensive copy/paste that justifies the tag please don't add it back. el.ziade (talkallam) 18:13, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- Also, based on the examples provided on the talk page (all of which have been addressed by Skitash), it seems that the copied passages are short and have been cited. Since the copied material is properly attributed and linked to its original sources, it does not constitute a copyright violation. I do not think it's justified to tag the article with a copyvio. el.ziade (talkallam) 18:25, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- On top of that, copyvio tool indicates that there's a less than 5% similarity and I've already changed and reworded content the IP hopper showed concern about, so their argument lacks merit. They are either deliberately pretending to not see it or refusing to acknowledge it by continuing to edit war. It's perplexing that they opted for a full copyright investigation over a few similar-sounding sentences rather than trying to improve the article. My best guess is that this is just another petty excuse the IP hopper is using to continue harassing me as they have done on my talk page.[3][4] Skitash (talk) 11:06, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- All that proves is that copyvio tool is pretty useless. 2001:8F8:1DDA:A9B6:17CC:E045:8086:7B37 (talk) 11:27, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- On top of that, copyvio tool indicates that there's a less than 5% similarity and I've already changed and reworded content the IP hopper showed concern about, so their argument lacks merit. They are either deliberately pretending to not see it or refusing to acknowledge it by continuing to edit war. It's perplexing that they opted for a full copyright investigation over a few similar-sounding sentences rather than trying to improve the article. My best guess is that this is just another petty excuse the IP hopper is using to continue harassing me as they have done on my talk page.[3][4] Skitash (talk) 11:06, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- Also, based on the examples provided on the talk page (all of which have been addressed by Skitash), it seems that the copied passages are short and have been cited. Since the copied material is properly attributed and linked to its original sources, it does not constitute a copyright violation. I do not think it's justified to tag the article with a copyvio. el.ziade (talkallam) 18:25, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- There's not enough to justify the tag, and User:Skitash made changes to the article. I removed the tag. I hope you don't add it back. Also as I noted on the RPP, further investigation into your claim is welcome. Until you can prove extensive copy/paste that justifies the tag please don't add it back. el.ziade (talkallam) 18:13, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
4 May 2024
- Ghulam Hassan Sofi (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20120324054246/http://www.groundreport.com/Arts_and_Culture/Melody-king-of-Kashmir-Ghulam-Hassan-Sofi-remember_2/2911690. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:26, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
- Tagged for SD. If you reply here, please ping me. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 17:57, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- No copyright concern. Material is PD, license compatible, or ineligible for copyright protection. MER-C 11:02, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
- Teaneck, New Jersey (history · last edit · rewrite) from here Nikkimaria (talk) 18:28, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
- Lance Bruner (history · last edit · rewrite) (Apologies for this unskilled messy entry, based only on some manual searching for phrases.) The article seems to be copied from a CC-BY-SA fandom.com article created the day before[5], with very light paraphrasing and without attribution. The fandom.com article may be copied from a gamespot.com one[6] - I can't see which is first - and ours might have been. The two sentences that make the second paragraph of our article are very lightly paraphrased from a 2022 cbr.com article.[7] I don't know if some sort of retro-attribution to fandom.com would be proper, or if the whole article should go as plagiarising that and/or gamespot.com - if that's the original. The only citations are to one issue of a comic. NebY (talk) 22:59, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
6 May 2024
- Draft:Coral reef preservation (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.mona.uwi.edu/cms/ https://www.reefinstitute.org/ https://mote.org/research/program/coral-reef-restoration https://www.jcu.edu.au/this-is-uni/natural-and-built-environments/articles/helping-corals-survive https://hcas.nova.edu/research-achievements/coral-climate-research.html https://www.divessi.com/en/get-certified/environment/blue-oceans https://marine.uq.edu.au/research/theme/coral-reefs https://rescueareef.earth.miami.edu/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2291018/#:~:text=Sunscreens%20cause%20the%20rapid%20and,symbiotic%20zooxanthellae%20with%20latent%20infections. Foundational; some but not all has been removed. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:21, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
7 May 2024
- Draft:Francesco Sapori (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://library.syracuse.edu/digital/guides/print/sapori_f_prt.htm. Relisted from 1 May, as I'd specified the wrong url, mea culpa. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:13, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
8 May 2024
List of songs recorded by Kendrick Lamar (history · last edit · rewrite) from Scribd and DocDroid
- Multiple entries on this iist sourced to copyrighted Digital Booklets uploaded to Scribd and DocDroid. Their self-publishing platforms violate copyrights, so linking to them from Wikipedia would also violate the WP:COPYVIOEL guideline and the WP:COPYVIO policy. Removing the URLs from the citations is easy enough, but unsure about rev/del since they have apparently been in the article since 2017 Isaidnoway (talk) 20:59, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
13 May 2024
- Derrick Bell (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.thehistorymakers.org/sites/default/files/A2004_242_EAD.pdf. — Diannaa (talk) 20:23, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
16 May 2024
- List of Awkward episodes (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/awkward-old-jenna-180300451.html. Dialmayo 16:17, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
- Forces of Freedom and Change (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://sudantribune.com/article282981. There are a few word changes, but it's clearly a copy/paste with just minor changes - not a summary of key points. The infringing edit is this one. Boud (talk) 19:40, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 18:37, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
21 May 2024
- Draft:Titles (history · last edit · rewrite) from [8]. Flagged by copypatrol, see [9]. Source link is dead, with no archive available on archive.org. See iThenticate report for source text. Sending to CP since I'm not familiar with Korean ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 01:57, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
- Economy of Tamil Nadu (history · last edit · rewrite) from 1. A. K, M. V. The Dravidian Model: Interpreting the Political Economy of Tamil Nadu. Cambridge University Press; 2021.
- Accessible via TWL: https://www-cambridge-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/core/books/the-dravidian-model/48F62283E95BC93C03EE0498EA9DA6A2. Recent addition seems to be nearly entirely copied/closely paraphrased from this book. Initially flagged by copypatrol, see [10] ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 02:53, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
- User:Karoosa/sandbox (history · last edit · rewrite) I'm pretty sure this is copied from another wiki, but I found no attribution and don't know from which one. Nobody (talk) 07:53, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
- Man on the Hill (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/g2008n2a2.pdf. Beginning of "Locality and Age" section copied. mwwv converse∫edits 12:07, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
- Article deleted for a reason other than copyright concerns. MER-C 11:03, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
22 May 2024
- Nordweststadt (Karlsruhe) (history · last edit · rewrite) So, our new page appears to be translated from the German article de:Nordweststadt (Karlsruhe), which is simple enough to deal with, but (in what I'm like, 90% sure is a BACKWARDSCOPY) that German article closely matches part of some random locksmith's website [11]. My German is truly atrocious though, so I was hoping someone else could verify that. Alpha3031 (t • c) 15:00, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
- Backwardscopy. Tag placed at talk page. – dudhhr talkcontribssheher 21:42, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
- Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2002 (history · last edit �� rewrite) from here. I did some work on January and February but there's too many other reports at CopyPatrol for me to carry on to the end of the article at this time. — Diannaa (talk) 22:14, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
- Elez Isufi (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from CheddarB23. confirmed copyvio from this book, and I believe the other books were likely copied from as well GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 22:30, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 11:04, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
23 May 2024
- Full arch restoration (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://uniqa.dental/articles/full-arch-dental-implants-protocols-and-techniques. Alpha3031 (t • c) 15:29, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
- This is likely spam, and I wouldn't be surprised if it weren't from Wikibusines. MER-C 17:18, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- Induced stem cells (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from 20240516. Nearly all material has been added by 20240516, and they were the creator. Article cites over 300 sources, incl, paywalled, and they regularly copied from news reports they didn't cite, cited material to the wrong source, and just made stuff up. Sorry for turning it over here, but this thing just needs stubbed or deleted. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 20:13, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 11:08, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- Draft:Alan Pemberton (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/alan-pemberton. — Diannaa (talk) 20:20, 23 May 2024 (UTC) Adding: Everipedia is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License so I have added attribution for that. But the editor states that some material was copied from from these two pages: https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2022.10.31.php and https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2020.01.07.php. These are not compatibly licensed. — Diannaa (talk) 12:37, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
30 May 2024
- Weston Imer (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from GoldenBootWizard276. ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 20:25, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 18:19, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
- Carrigdhoun GAA (history · last edit · rewrite) from [12]. Possible backwards copy. Archive.org doesn't stretch that far back, and we had majority of the text in 2008/2009, years before their website was first registered in 2014 (per ICANN lookup) ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 20:50, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
3 June 2024
- Marta Orriols (history · last edit · rewrite) from [13]. Given the info at es:Usuario:Kippelboy, there might be a VRT ticket for this. (Website's own legal page isn't as clear on the issue as I'm comfortable with). GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 08:09, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Draft:Qefweqf (history · last edit · [[Talk:Draft:Qefweqf/Temp|rewrite]]) from [14]. I wasn't able to find their licence. Both articles are clearly promotional. I see I've broken the syntax somehow, sorry. Why isn't there a template? Doug Weller talk 09:58, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Article deleted for a reason other than copyright concerns. MER-C 18:22, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
4 June 2024
- Fuad Dibra (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Tetovario. Book sources, Tetovario is the only signifigant contributor GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 05:36, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 18:39, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
- Stone Deep (history · last edit · rewrite) contains excessive WP:COPYLINK violations in cited Facebook posts, which should be converted to {{cite news}} templates either without URLs or with legitimate online publishers (such as Newspapers.com) . Yes this is an unusual report, but the alternative would be keeping a page with over a dozen {{copyvio link}} tags. Could be resolved quickly; I'll try to work on it. Mach61 17:07, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- Chemoimmunotherapy (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://aacrjournals.org/cancerres/article/68/21/8643/541799/A-History-of-Cancer-Chemotherapy & https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3608094/. Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 20:31, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
6 June 2024
- World Environment Day (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.health.gov.bb/event/86. JLCop (talk) 09:36, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
10 June 2024
- Maram (drum) (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. No other major contributors, one offline source GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 02:27, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Salsa roja (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. No other significant contributors, book sources GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 02:42, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Huevos a la mexicana (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. Subject not in book listed, no other significant contributors GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 03:01, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Jhallari (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. Cited to a biography that doesn't mention half the cited facts. Given the pre-established pattern of falsifying sources and the lack of any other significant contributors, I am flagging this for presumptive deletion GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 03:06, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Geger (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. No other significant contributors, book source GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 03:18, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Corrido (Spain) (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. Book sources, no other significant contributors GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 03:24, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Pastel azteca (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. Book citation, approx 60% authorship (but the other half is unsourced) GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 03:32, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Ekkalam (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. No other significant contributors, book source GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 03:37, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test Controversy (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.news9live.com/education-career/entrance-exams/explained-know-about-neet-cheating-scam-unearthed-at-gujarat-bihar-2533903. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 10:47, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Curb Safe Charmer: Believe I tidied this up by chance before the tag, and it just needs a revdel considered? Mdann52 (talk) 13:50, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 10:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Timeline of the flag of Australia (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.anfa-national.org.au/history-of-our-flag/. — Diannaa (talk) 13:23, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- I'm sorry about this. I must admit that I did use that website as a source. But I thought I paraphrased it all pretty well. Robbiegibbons (talk) 02:28, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- Why don't I go ahead and reinstate the text and cite additional sources? Robbiegibbons (talk) 03:30, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
14 June 2024
Libyan genocide (history · last edit · rewrite) from "Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History" by Ali Abdullatif Ahmida (Routledge, 2021) [15]
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: [16]
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: [17]
Previously, Skitash had to reword the "Links to the Holocaust" section as it was a close paraphrase of the cited Middle East Eye article: [18], which they had added on 11 December 2023 [19] in the same edit as the above "Etymology" section edit. They have also been warned on 18 June 2023 [20] and on 2 December 2023 [21] 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 [22] [23].
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 [24] Meluiel (talk) 17:25, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
21 June 2024
- Draft:The St. Petersburg workmen's petition to the Tsar (January 22, 1905) (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://valenteshop.ru/en/bolshe-sil-gosudar-nastal-predel-terpeniyu-semeinyi-arhiv-ii-mery-protiv-nishchety/. — Diannaa (talk) 12:49, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- No copyright concern. Material is PD, license compatible, or ineligible for copyright protection. Content actually came from a translation of ru:Петиция рабочих и жителей Санкт-Петербурга 9 января 1905 года. 14:49, 22 June 2024 (UTC) — Diannaa (talk)
- Draft:Klym Kozynskyi (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://thetheatretimes.com/idiotology/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7238436/ https://electrotheatre.com/repertoire/spectacle/285 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30023782/. Foundationakl; some has been removed, some not, all text needs to be checked by a Russian speaker. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:22, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
25 June 2024
- San Pablo, Isabela (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://provinceofisabela.ph/images/2018/History_of_Isabela/5-History%20of%20San%20Pablo%20Isabela.pdf. Many government documents are public domain in the Philippines but this one is marked as "Philippine Copyright © 15 January 2018". — Diannaa (talk) 13:30, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
30 June 2024
- Non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (history · last edit · rewrite) from [Unclear]. I just had to remove a lot of content from this page because it copied from https://www.aao.org/eyenet/article/naion-diagnosis-and-management . Worryingly, the contributor did not cite that source. Rather, they cited the source's sources. I'll try cleaning this tomorrow, but I have reason to believe there could be more copyright violations, given that Dianna already had to remove copyvios from Draft:Non-Arteriitic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy & repair CWW violations (a repair that didn't seem to be copied over). I'll try cleaning it, but this could take a while GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 09:10, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
- 10 days later: I haven't found any more confirmed violations, and spot-checking the sources hasn't revealed much. But I really don't like the way they blatantly copied from a source they didn't cite. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 09:47, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
- Silva gallinaria (history · last edit · rewrite) - Article's origin is a translation of it:Silva Gallinaria, where the translated version was revdel removed from that wiki [25] for copyvio from https://www.summagallicana.it/lessico/g/Gallinaria%20pineta.htm although that missed a few copyvios from the same source from earlier dates (see copyvio report post revdel at 80% similarity). As such, the whole page is affected. Turtlecrown (talk) 13:45, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 17:13, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
1 July 2024
- History of Florida International University (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from SeminoleNation. Confirmed vio from [26] & [27]; nearly all text was written by SeminoleNation GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 07:16, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 15:33, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- The Iddi Basajjabalaba Memorial Library (history · last edit · rewrite) from [28]. NotAGenious (talk) 14:24, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
- Vocational rehabilitation (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://vra-uk.org/node/6. SomeoneDreaming (talk) 20:06, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
- So, the original article in 2012 after it got changed from the redirect was a copy of the linked above page from Vocational Rehabilitation Association UK. It was cited, but the content was entirely copypasted from there. The only edit history of the editor who did that is the creation of that article; their account is now redlinked. There is plenty of good content that has since been added by other editors, and I don't want that to get lost. But I'm not sure what is the best strategy when the whole thing is built on copyvio. I can work on rewriting it (not today) to remove the problematic content or at least paraphrase. But I'm not sure what to do about the page revisions since every revision has copyrighted material in it. Hoping someone with more experience can help. I only caught it because I was looking at the citations to add some more information/generally improve the article after merging. SomeoneDreaming (talk) 20:12, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
- I created the rewrite page and just removed the copyvio. Could be re-added as paraphrase, but honestly I think the whole lead needs work. SomeoneDreaming (talk) 16:16, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- @SomeoneDreaming: Are you fine with possibly moving it to mainspace now to get more eyes on reworking the content? We'll double check for copyvio of course. Sennecaster (Chat) 06:28, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, I'm cool with that. I'm just not sure how to handle revdel? SomeoneDreaming (talk) 17:06, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- @SomeoneDreaming: Are you fine with possibly moving it to mainspace now to get more eyes on reworking the content? We'll double check for copyvio of course. Sennecaster (Chat) 06:28, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- I created the rewrite page and just removed the copyvio. Could be re-added as paraphrase, but honestly I think the whole lead needs work. SomeoneDreaming (talk) 16:16, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
2 July 2024
- First Hunnic War (history · last edit · rewrite), extensive close paraphrasing from Goyal 1967, please see examples on talk. NB: initial content was copied, with attribution, from Draft:Gupta–Hunnic Wars. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:08, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
3 July 2024
- New World Development (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.nwd.com.hk/corporate/about-NWD/milestones. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 04:01, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 18:18, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- Powder metallurgy (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.pm-review.com/introduction-to-powder-metallurgy/powder-production-technologies/. Mrfoogles (talk) 08:52, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- Most Likely to Survive (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.sameyou.org/survivor_story_6. Isaidnoway (talk) 14:49, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 18:21, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- Social peer-to-peer processes (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20221025020354/https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/ctheory/article/view/14464/5306 https://web.archive.org/web/20180722013250id_/http://z.agoravox.fr/IMG/P2PandHumanEvolV2.pdf https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/ctheory/article/download/14464/5306?inline=1. JaggedHamster (talk) 23:48, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
5 July 2024
- Nugent, Tasmania (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.ourtasmania.com.au/hobart/nugent.html. Mrfoogles (talk) 16:33, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
- Inconclusive because it is more likely the page predates the source but I've removed it as unsourced. MER-C 10:54, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
- Levantine archaeology (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/emeyers. Angegane (talk) 20:45, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
- This section was originally migrated from Historicity of the Bible at this edit, and the plagiarism at that article originates with this edit. Angegane (talk) 20:52, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
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9 July 2024
- 8th New York Infantry Regiment (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://museum.dmna.ny.gov/unit-history/infantry/8th-infantry-regiment. — Diannaa (talk) 22:26, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- I took it from the original source (as per the website's note, "THE FOLLOWING IS TAKEN FROM NEW YORK IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, 3RD ED. FREDERICK PHISTERER. ALBANY: J. B. LYON COMPANY, 1912.") which is in the public domain, located at https://archive.org/details/phisterernewyork03fredrich/page/1815/mode/1up, as well as from Military Affairs and Regimental Histories of New York, Maryland, West Virginia, And Ohio, located at https://archive.org/details/unionarmyhistory02madi/page/54/mode/1up, which is also in the public domain. As stated in the PD note following the listing of these sources, "This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain." The website cannot copyright something already in the public domain. They actually cite the source(s) used on their pages and repost them verbatim BECAUSE they are in the public domain. I believe this must be an error caused by an automated bot which failed to read the citation on the museum.dmna.ny.gov site. Also, I thought government records and texts are not protected by copyright - a point that doesn't apply here since the source material is in the public domain. Boo Boo (talk) 14:06, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you. It happens. No harm done. Boo Boo (talk) 18:57, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
10 July 2024
- Khirbet Beit Sila (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from 20240707. Article is mostly very closely paraphrased from [29] GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 08:17, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
- Bir ed-Duwali (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from 20240707. Hebrew-language, JSTOR locked source. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 08:25, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
- Umm al Amad, Jerusalem (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from 20240707. Heavily sites one offline source that won't be PD in either Israel or the US for a while. This is the last presumptive deletion I'll file for this CCI this week, so as to give interested users a chance to either re-write or save the article. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 08:30, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
11 July 2024
- 2023 Australian winter (history · last edit · rewrite) from [30]. I was too quick to accept the draft to mainspace, but I hope the author is willing to fix it. Broc (talk) 10:06, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- Queso en salsa (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. Book source, sole author on esWiki. Page cannot be translated from esWiki. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 21:50, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- Sones de Mariachi (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. Book source, sole author on esWiki. Page cannot be re-created as a translation of esWiki article GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 21:56, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- Tabla tarang (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. Book source GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 21:59, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- Pambai (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. Book source; author of esWiki article too. Most articles are translations of the enWiki article so this cannot be recreated as a translation. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 22:04, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- Pandero jarocho (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. Sole author, book sources. Sole author of esWiki article, so this page cannot be re-created with translation GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 22:12, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- Guitarra séptima (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. Sole author, book source. Sole author of esWiki article, so this cannot be re-created via translation GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 22:14, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
13 July 2024
- Boca do Vento Elevator (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.monumentos.gov.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=20536. Juwan (talk) 02:03, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
14 July 2024
- 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/usmc/1-3.htm. SomeoneDreaming (talk) 01:48, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
- Created in 2006 and copied almost entirely from the linked source. A lot of people have worked on this article since, but it would be difficult to redo without copied material since it was built around it. Not sure what the best next steps are which is why I'm listing it. SomeoneDreaming (talk) 01:50, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
- Jahangir Zeynalov (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.anl.az/down/meqale/kaspi/2015/sentyabr/456153.htm . Translation vio, I've blocked the editor indefinitely and referred them to CCI. MER-C 11:30, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
15 July 2024
- Draft:Jobair Ahmad (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://primeasia.edu.bd/jubair-ahmed.php. Snowman304|talk 02:06, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- John Leigh Douglas (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://morethannelson.com/officer/john-leigh-douglas/. — Diannaa (talk) 13:31, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
16 July 2024
- Desert fortresses of Judaea (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from 20240707. The "Dok" section appears to have been lifted from the JSTOR source- but given the large number of book/foreign language sources that I can't translate, I'm flagging this for presumptive deletion. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 03:35, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
- University of Washington (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.realchangenews.org/news/2023/06/14/uw-accused-poor-conduct-2400-postdocs-and-researchers-strike. Section history, subsection controversies. Contributor has been notified. Violation occurred June 21st, 2023.⸺RandomStaplers 05:54, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
- University of Illinois Chicago (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://interactive.wbez.org/curiouscity/littleitaly. Violation occurred September 18th, 2020.⸺RandomStaplers 06:32, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
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