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 about the problem at the relevant talk page, propose revisions to the material, or request copyright permission. After the listing period, a copyright problems clerk or administrator will review the listing and take further action if 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, and for community volunteers who'd like to help resolve concerns.
To add a new listing, please go to today's section. Instructions for dealing with copyright concerns can be found at Instructions for dealing with text-based copyright concerns.
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.
Backwards copying: when Wikipedia had (or may have had) it first
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 one 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. There are well-documented cases of plagiarism from Wikipedia by external publications.
Instructions for dealing with text-based copyright concerns
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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:
- Replace the text with one of the following:
{{subst:copyvio|url=insert URL here}}
{{subst:copyvio|identify non-web source here}}
- 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.
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, this 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 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)
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 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 clerks are experienced editors on Wikipedia who are familiar with copyright and non-free content policies and the handling of any infringement in regards to text. 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 generally stay listed for a minimum of 5 days before being processed by clerks and administrators. 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/Clerks#Advice for clerks
The templates collected at Template:CPC may be useful for administrators, clerks and VRT agents noting resolution.
Listings of possible copyright problems
Older than 7 days
23 February 2022
- Articles tagged as close paraphrases in December 2014 and January 2015
- Background of the Russo-Georgian War (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Cyberattacks during the Russo-Georgian War (history · last edit · rewrite)
- 2008 Russo-Georgian diplomatic crisis (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Humanitarian impact of the Russo-Georgian War (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Information war during the Russo-Georgian War (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Battle of Tskhinvali (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Occupation of Gori (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Cleaned by me and Senne Signed,The4lines |||| (Talk) (Contributions) 01:48, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
These seven are likely to be the same editor.
- There appear to be several copyvio editors in this topic area. MER-C 13:11, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
- BMPT Terminator (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Abba Estifanos of Gwendagwende (history · last edit · rewrite)
- National Negro Congress (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Shigeto Tsuru (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Wizardman 13:59, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
Ends. MER-C 18:38, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
- Svetozar Miletić (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various - presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/24.57.81.185. Wizardman 22:56, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Wizardman 15:07, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
- Laza Kostić (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various sources and various IPs - presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/24.57.81.185. Wizardman 23:05, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Wizardman 23:45, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
27 March 2022
- Lizzie P. Thompson (history · last edit · rewrite) from [Presumptive%20deletion%20over%20copyright%20concerns,%20please%20see:%20%5B%5BWikipedia:Contributor%20copyright%20investigations/20110727%2002%5D%5D]. Signed,The4lines |||| (Talk) (Contributions) 03:16, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 19:00, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
- Martin Barnes (Engineer) (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.apm.org.uk/news/a-tribute-to-apm-founder-dr-martin-barnes-cbe. — Diannaa (talk) 14:21, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Signed,The4lines |||| (Talk) (Contributions) 23:45, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- Theistic naturalism (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4020-8265-8_1105. Listing on behalf of @Rsjaffe:. MER-C 17:35, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Sennecaster (Chat) 18:25, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
- Articles tagged as close paraphrases from April and May 2015
- Dave Bass (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Sennecaster (Chat) 18:09, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
- Colegio San Agustin – Makati (history · last edit · rewrite)
No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. Wizardman 23:34, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
- Harry Collins (magician) (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Eduqas (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.eduqas.co.uk/about-us/
- Epiphany of Our Lord Co-Cathedral Parish (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://epiphanyofthelordparish.blogspot.com/p/history.html
- Master of Science in Health Informatics (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Karyn Rochelle (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Helen Meriwether Lewis Thomas (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Intelligence Squared (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Moncrieff, Australian Capital Territory (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Siamack A. Shirazi (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://faculty.utulsa.edu/college-of-engineering-natural-sciences/mechanical-engineering/siamack-shirazi
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Issue resolved. Cut down in 2015 for other reasons Sennecaster (Chat) 18:09, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
Ends. MER-C 18:41, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
- Weber County Sheriff's Office (history · last edit · rewrite) Currently a redirect, but in all prior revisions the text was almost entirely a copy-paste of [1]. Needs WP:REVDEL of all edits before the current one. (Didn't want to tag with {{copyvio-revdel}} in case it conflicted with the redirect.) -Apocheir (talk) 19:48, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
Purged. Copyright problem removed from history. VernoWhitney (talk) 19:04, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
5 April 2022
- Free trade agreements of India (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://commerce.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/FAQ_on_FTA_9April2014.pdf. (t · c) buidhe 02:50, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
- Appears to be freely licensed. Working on attribution for it. VernoWhitney (talk) 18:16, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
No copyright concern. Material PD or appropriately licensed for use. VernoWhitney (talk) 19:06, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
- Now using the brand new {{GODL-India-text}} VernoWhitney (talk) 19:06, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
- Mark Lowery (history · last edit · rewrite) from . Presumptive deletion over copyright concerns please see: Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727_14 Signed,The4lines |||| (Talk) (Contributions) 18:07, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 18:07, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
- Grove Stafford (history · last edit · rewrite) from . Presumptive deletion over copyright concerns please see: Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727_14 Signed,The4lines |||| (Talk) (Contributions) 18:51, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 18:07, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
- Working cow horse (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20070629155135/http://www2.nrcha.com/2001/department.cfm?id=about_nrcha&sub=history. Foundational; there may have been some later copying from other sources too. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:16, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
29 April 2022
- Harold Raley (history · last edit · rewrite) from apparently a number of books. The article appeared to be almost entirely lengthy quotations from those sources, but because I don't have the books, I didn't mark for speedy. agtx 04:22, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
- Carpet (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://turkuazgallery.com/education/carpet-origins/english/. 120.18.16.219 (talk) 11:51, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
- Located as unique text first published according to google claim in 2004. Also its uncited spam: it wasn't written for wikipedia by close text analysis. No I can't be bothered logging in, I'm reading a romantic fiction novel which mentioned axminster carpets. 120.18.16.219 (talk) 11:53, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
- Anastasia Barzee (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://anastasiabarzee.com/about-anastasia-barzee/. VernoWhitney (talk) 13:18, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Reverted to pre-obvious-copyvio version. VernoWhitney (talk) 15:57, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
- Ned McGowan (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.nedmcgowan.com/about/full-biography/. VernoWhitney (talk) 15:49, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
- Foundational spam problems, poorly sourced. Deleted. MER-C 09:58, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
- Agrammatism (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4594877/. (Copyright/licence not given on page.) Also it reads like a thesis, not an encyclopedia article. --?Verbarson??talkedits 17:00, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
- Punjab Police College Sihala (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://pcs.punjab.gov.pk/Overview and https://pcs.punjab.gov.pk/history. Apocheir (talk) 20:47, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
- Bermuda Police RFC (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20120531205021/http://www.bprfc.bm/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=56 , also unclear notabiliy. Apocheir (talk) 21:00, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 09:52, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
30 April 2022
- On the advice of a CCIer, Wikipedia:VRT noticeboard#20 some odd old substed versions of Ticket confirmation has some 50 articles (I thought of a better search after making that title) listed where there is an apparent confirmation but no ticket directly linked. Advice from copyright problems editors there would be appreciated, and/or advice on whether to track it here. --Izno (talk) 00:18, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
- Chris Ullo (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 13:49, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 16:40, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
- Luca Bovalino (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.italchamber.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Luca-Bovalino-Bio.pdf. Promotional, likely paid-for spam. MER-C 18:43, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 18:51, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
5 May 2022
- Gopa (caste) (history · last edit · rewrite) from storymirror and possibly other vanity press in this edit and possibly other edits in the history — DaxServer (t · m · c) 11:32, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
- Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy (history · last edit · rewrite) from [2] and [3] and many others. Offending material introduced in revision 363615848, last revision containing it was 1072916065. User:Sesp10, a blocked SPA with a COI, copy-pasted from multiple university pages. Lkb335 (talk) 19:53, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
Purged. Copyright problem removed from history. MER-C 18:17, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
- Athens-Clarke County Police Department (history · last edit · rewrite), from [4]. Added in December 2014. Page has been changed to a redir but needs purging. -Apocheir (talk) 02:34, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
Purged. Copyright problem removed from history. MER-C 18:17, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
- Articles tagged as close paraphrases in August and September 2015
- The Campus Market (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Hollander beater (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Carol Jarvis (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.divine-art.co.uk/AS/caroljarvis.htm
- John Kynnersley Kirby (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Joseph A. Mandarino (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Prachyanat (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://prachyanat.org/theatre-open/
- Sifted (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://pressreleases.kcstar.com/release/messages/74654/
- Tang Xiyang (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Africa's Children-Africa's Future (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Basilica Shrine of St. Mary (Wilmington, North Carolina) (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20120301045419/http://www.thestmaryparish.org/history01.htm
- Fred Marafano (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Blanked and relisted at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2022 May 14. MER-C 19:04, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
- St. Matthew's Anglican Church (Ottawa) (history · last edit · rewrite)
Ends. MER-C 18:39, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
6 May 2022
- M. N. Dastur (history · last edit · rewrite) from various sources. Not blanked because already under active revision in mainspace. Will need review and revdeletion. VernoWhitney (talk) 17:51, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
- Uganda National NGO Forum (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.dgf.ug/partner/uganda-national-ngo-forum-unngof and http://web.archive.org/web/20150716073421/http://ngoforum.or.ug/history-of-ngo-forum/ and probably more. Foundational. I'm assuming this was entirely copied from elsewhere and just never verified permission. Article created by a sockpuppet with other paid work. VernoWhitney (talk) 20:27, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:54, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
7 May 2022
- MV Eemslift Hendrika (2015) (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 19:00, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
- Amadeu Antonio Kiowa (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 19:00, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
- Port Emam Khomeyni (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 19:00, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
- Daniel Fiß (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 19:00, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
- Global 1 (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 19:00, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
Presumptive deletion per Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Outdoor-Bro. MER-C 16:45, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
- Articles tagged as close paraphrases in October 2015 to March 2016
- AJW Motorcycles (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Swiss Nanoscience Institute (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Phil Prince (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Pietro Veneri (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.conservatorio.pr.it/docenti/pietro-veneri/
- Shahan Ali Mohsin (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Structural information theory (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Bob Boniface (history · last edit · rewrite)
- William Kincaid (flutist) (history · last edit · rewrite)
- C. Basavalingaiah (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Electricity theft in Pakistan (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Zeynep Sevde Paksu (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Louis Eugene King (history · last edit · rewrite)
- List of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! episodes (history · last edit · rewrite)
Ends. MER-C 10:27, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
Recently expired listings
9 May 2022
- Metal foam (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://coek.info/pdf-characterization-methods-a03980de5a9c4c06a5afcfe2b2d9a2b245402.html. — Diannaa (talk) 19:05, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
10 May 2022
- Türkiye Gençlik Vakfı (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Fairplay Towage Group (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Engagement Global (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Christiane Werner (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Robin Quinville (history · last edit · rewrite)
Presumptive deletion per Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Outdoor-Bro. MER-C 18:35, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
- Cherax (history · last edit · rewrite) from various sources - see talk page. VernoWhitney (talk) 19:43, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
New listings
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 5 days to give the original authors of the article time to deal with the problem. Anyone in the community may help clarify the copyright status on these. See the section on responding for more information.
11 May 2022
- Revolutionary Communist Party of China (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20171107022958/https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/alex/works/in_trot/china2.htm. Foundational, CCI:Lmmnhn. I believe Marxists.org is under an ok license, but the source notes "Copyright 1991, Duke University Press. Posted with permission. All rights reserved. This material may be saved or photocopied for personal use but may not be otherwise reproduced, stored or transmitted by any medium without explicit permission. Any alteration to or republication of this material is expressly forbidden", so it may not be in this case. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 02:56, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
- Arnold Krammer (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 22:53, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
12 May 2022
- Reverse Discrimination (EU Law) (history · last edit · rewrite) Much of the article is quotation of laws of various countries, but there is also copyright content/opinions copied from https://irelandsreversediscrimination.wordpress.com/. Not sure if this article is ready for mainspace or how to go about cleaning it. — Diannaa (talk) 14:19, 12 May 2022 (UTC) The content has been removed from the blog, but was archived here. Note the addition of a license, and release into the public domain. Not sure which would apply, if any. Also see Talk:Reverse Discrimination (EU Law)— Diannaa (talk) 00:43, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
13 May 2022
- User:MikeMissile/sandbox/North Walden Pond 44 acres (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://georgejohnwheelerindiantreatywaldenpond.com/. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:17, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
- Attribute-oriented programming (history · last edit · rewrite) since its first revision in 2005, from https://web.archive.org/web/20050526230023/http://dssg.cs.umb.edu/resources/attribute-oriented-programming.html (which predates it by a month). Significant non-infringing content after the copyvio in the lead, which has survived almost entirely untouched. —Cryptic 21:57, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
14 May 2022
- Fred Marafano (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/fred-marafono-south-pacific-warrior-whose-heart-belongs-in-sierra-leone-2306013.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/special-forces-obituaries/9961915/Fred-Marafono.html. Foundational close paraphrase. MER-C 19:03, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2022 May 16
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